Academic Journal
Racism and silencing in the media in Aotearoa New Zealand.
| Title: | Racism and silencing in the media in Aotearoa New Zealand. |
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| Authors: | MacDonald, Liana, Ormond, Adreanne |
| Source: | AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples; Jun2021, Vol. 17 Issue 2, p156-164, 9p |
| Abstract: | Racism in the Aotearoa New Zealand media is the subject of scholarly debate that examines how Māori (Indigenous Peoples of New Zealand) are broadcast in a negative and demeaning light. Literature demonstrates evolving understandings of how the industry places Pākehā (New Zealanders primarily of European descent) interests at the heart of broadcasting. We offer new insights by arguing that the media industry propagates a racial discourse of silencing that sustains widespread ignorance of the ways that Pākehā sensibilities mediate society. We draw attention to a silencing discourse through one televised story in 2018. On-screen interactions reproduce and safeguard a harmonious narrative of settler–Indigenous relations that support ignorance and denial of the structuring force of colonisation, and the Television Code of Broadcasting Practice upholds colour-blind perceptions of discrimination and injustice through liberal rhetoric. These processes ensure that the media industry is complicit in racism and the ongoing oppression of Indigenous peoples. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Subject Terms: | MAORI (New Zealand people), TELEVISION broadcasting, INDIGENOUS peoples, NEW Zealanders, MASS media industry |
| Geographic Terms: | NEW Zealand |
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| ISSN: | 11771801 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/11771801211015436 |
| Database: | Complementary Index |