Internet name suppression

You can read the full New Zealand Herald article here

Internet Censorship in China

The CNN summary of internet censorship in China can be found here

This Reuters story is both an interesting insight into what people actually use the internet for, and a useful example of how the internet is 'imagined" in mainstream media. You can read the full story here

Focus on Politics

In May, National Radio did a Focus on Politics piece on blogging and political parties' use of the internet more generally in election year. You can find it here.

The organisation of news

Rodney Hide's laying of a complaint against Winston Peters with the NZ Police is an excellent example of a politician utilising some of the aspects of news organisation that Sue was discussing in last week's lecture. Watch the One News report here and consider how Hide utilised news organisation.

NZ Election Coverage

For the take-home exam you will need to discuss media coverage of either the New Zealand elections, or the US presidential election. The NZ election can take place no later than Nov 15, and some of the major news organisations have begun packaging their political news as "election coverage". You can find blogs, archived footage, political analysis, and other media coverage at the following sites (this list will be updated regularly):

One News
3 News
New Zealand Herald

Online political blogging will also be an important feature of the campaigns (we will be discussing blogs in a few weeks). Some of the more well known NZ political blogs are:

kiwiblog (right)
Hard News (left)
No Right Turn (left)
frogblog (left: this is the Green Party's blog)

Asian Angst

The Press Council ruling on Deborah Coddington's "Asian Angst" article is available here.
Here is a NZ Herald article on the ruling. And Tze Ming Mok (one of the complainants, and a blogger on Public Address) has an archive regarding the case here.

The TVNZ charter

From the TVNZ site. There are links here to the charter itself, and to proposed revisions of it.

TVNZ Charter

Here are some links related to the TVNZ charter, which we will be looking at next week:

Nats would get rid of TVNZ Charter

5:00PM Monday July 07, 2008

Television New Zealand should be released from its charter obligations and have to compete for the associated funding with all other broadcasters, National Party broadcasting spokesman Jonathan Coleman said.

Dr Coleman released National's broadcasting policy today with the charter policy as its centrepiece.

Full story here
And further discussion here

And the One News coverage here

Advertising in the news?

From Ed Pilkington in The Guardian (23 July 2008)

US advertising: McMorning Las Vegas, here's the news

"The tentacle-like growth of clandestine advertising in American TV shows in the form of product placement has taken another controversial step with the introduction of McDonald's products into regional news programmes.

Several TV outlets have begun to sell the fast-food giant the right to place cups of its iced coffee on to the desks of news anchors as they present morning current affairs shows.

Typical is Fox 5 News in Las Vegas, an affiliate of Rupert Murdoch's Fox television network. Two cups of coffee, their cubes of ice glinting in the studio lights, now daily stand before the channel's morning presenters. The presenters conspicuously do not drink from the cups, which is just as well - the cups contain a bogus fluid and fake ice to prevent the cubes melting."

Read the full story here

TVNZ ondemand

There is archival footage of a wide range of TVNZ shows available here at their OnDemand site. This includes news footage and programmes aired on their freeview channels.

Media7 and the TVNZ charter

Media7 is a weekly media commentary programme on TVNZ's Freeview Channel 7.  It is hosted by Russell Brown, one of the country's best known media commentators.  Last week's episode featured a panel discussion on the TVNZ charter that those of you who are doing response papers on the topic will find useful.  We will be utilising Media7  throughout the course. Clips from previous episodes can be found here, and on their YouTube site here.  Russell Brown also has a blog here.

Tony Veitch and mediated apologies

Below are some links to coverage and discussions of Tony Veitch's alleged assault on his former partner, and some discussions of media coverage, and media responsibility.  

ONE News coverage of press conference

Close Up piece

Coverage from the Stuff website

Mediawatch

National Radio has a weekly media comment programme that often includes some excelllent media analysis. This week there is a discussion of the Tony Veitch story, amongst other things. Here is the podcast link.

Media Imagining the Media

Network and news promos are a useful site for examining how the media articulates its imagined relationship to us.  Here are some links you might find useful in preparing for your first tutorial.

7  (Australia)

3 News (NZ)

ONE News (NZ)

ONE News Weather (NZ)

BBC News website