ACMA to investigate media coverage of Christchurch terrorist attacks
Broadcasters will be asked to explain themselves over their coverage of the Christchurch terrorist attack as part of an investigation into the networks’ reporting on the atrocity by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA).
The investigation will focus on the perpetrator’s live-streamed footage of the shootings that was broadcast on Australian television.
ACMA’s Nerida O’Loughlin will write to broadcasters seeking further information on their coverage of the Christchurch atrocity
Seven hasn’t been sure which wave to ride for four or five years now…the best-friend-of-PH-‘let’s-catch-audience-with-the-current-right-wing-zeitgeist’ network, or the we-oppose-terror-on-both-sides channel.
While it is pleasing to see white-washed, commercial TV being taught how to behave by New Zealand and ACMA, and accepting Australia is made up of more than just their extended families, they really need to get a wriggle on – times are changing fast!
Writing letters , having meetings , yep
That’ll fix the decades-long practice of demonising minority groups of all types
Unless you have real consequences nothing will change . This is all lip service
And while you’re there, ACMA, you can also investigate why:
(1) the news media deliberately censored the news from Reuters and AAP about the massacre of 76 Christians in their church in Nigeria, 3 days before the Christchurch massacre. Please ask Fairfax, ABC, Guardian etc., why think it’s okay for black people or Christians to be massacred, and unworthy of being reported.
(2) ask why the news media have placed a blackout on the fact that NZ PM Jacinda Adern blocked legislation that would have banned the guns used in the Christchurch massacre. On 5th September 2018, NZ Labour and the Greens blocked the Firearms Prohibition Orders Amendment Act 2018, by 64 votes to 56, under instructions from guess who? Jacinda Adern. Given the offender was licensed, his guns would have been taken away. But the news media are too busy sanctifying Adern to deal with the reality that she’s as cynical and manipulative as the rest of them.
That lot should keep you busy.
This is literally the first sentence of that bill:
“This Bill provides strong new powers for Police to make sure the most dangerous gang members don’t have firearms, while not putting unnecessary restrictions on legal gun owners.”
He would have had those guns regardless. Stop telling lies.