NZ media failing on human rights issues, says Amnesty International

The New Zealand media seems to lack interest in and knowledge of human rights issues, says the deputy director of Amnesty International New Zealand, Rebecca Emery.
Emery was speaking at a conference hosted by Amnesty International at AUT University last week as part of its upcoming Demand Dignity campaign.
“Human rights are pretty much taken for [...]

Tea and terror with Robert Fisk

EXCLUSIVE: The journalist who interviewed Osama bin Laden three times and has covered the Middle East for over 30 years, tells Paul Harper about the illusion of objectivity and that the most important question is ‘why’. Photo: Alan Koon – Pacific Media Centre

‘The Warrior Creed’ – video of Robert Fisk at AUT University

Here, Robert Fisk talks about the “Warrior’s Creed”. US soldier’s used to carry the humanist “Soldier’s Creed” in their top pocket.
Fisk says Donald Rumsfeld replaced this with the “Warrior’s Creed” – a much more aggressive code of conduct.
Video courtesy of the Pacific Media Centre.
Camera: Kate Morse, Joe Rixon. Sound: Naveena Baratharaj.

Video from lunch with Robert Fisk at AUT University

A video excerpt from Fisk’s talk at AUT University yesterday.
Here Fisk talks about the failure of “50/50 journalism” and asks whether a journalist should get a balancing comment from the Nazis when writing about concentration camps.

Video by James Murray.

Go easy on us, we’re journalists

Ever suspicious of the hidden agenda, Katie Llanos-Small uncovers the power of the
investigative journalist.
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Journalists may be low in public esteem, but I reckon if those surveys asked respondents to rank student reporters, we’d fare even worse.
The general aura of suspicion that often greets journalists is frequently augmented by fear (of being wildly misquoted, I suppose) [...]