{"id":5863,"date":"2021-06-09T14:30:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T02:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/?p=5863"},"modified":"2021-06-09T15:51:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T03:51:53","slug":"professor-unwittingly-and-ironically-answers-his-own-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/2021\/06\/professor-unwittingly-and-ironically-answers-his-own-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor unwittingly and ironically answers his own question"},"content":{"rendered":"
AUT Professor of Journalism and Director of the Pacific Media Centre, David Robie, recently wrote an article where he lamented the New Zealand media’s coverage of \u2018critical issues’<\/a>. The issues he cited as having been “glossed over” by Kiwi journalists were the Samoan elections, West Papua, East Timor, and the Israel-Palestine conflict.<\/p>\n There was no data provided by Professor Robie – who has been a journalist for more than four decades and educating students for at least three of those – to substantiate his claim.<\/p>\n Professor Robie only referenced problematic and biassed sources, such as Malcolm Evans, who may be a \u2018National award-winning cartoonist’, but publishes antisemitic imagery<\/a> in a column in the Daily Blog, a site that regularly publishes screeds of antisemitic material<\/a>. Robie also referenced Hanan Ashrawi’s comments in the Middle East Eye, an organisation linked to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas<\/a>. Ashrawi was the first woman member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation and is an apologist for terror<\/a>.<\/p>\n In order to see what quantum of column inches were devoted to the issues, we did a search of New Zealand news outlets for each of the four issues in PressReader over the past month (from 08 June 2021). A search of “Samoa AND election” returned 124 results; a search for “\u2018West Papua'” returned 14 results; “\u2018East Timor'” returned 14 results also; and “Israel OR Palestine” returned 752 results.<\/p>\n New Zealand Friends of Israel analysed the coverage of the recent Hamas-Israel war by Stuff and found they published 38 articles between 11 May and 23 May (an average of almost 3 articles per day). They also found that only two of the headlines mentioned Hamas’ indiscriminate rocket attacks<\/a>.<\/p>\n