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October 26, 2024
SPECIAL REPORT: By David Robie in Taipei It was a heady week for the Paris-based global media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) — celebration of seven years of its Taipei office, presenting a raft of proposals to the Taiwan government, and hosting its Asia-Pacific network of correspondents. Director general Thibaut Bruttin and the Taipei ... <a title="RSF tackles Taiwan’s media freedom ‘Achilles heel’, boosts Asia Pacific monitoring action" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/26/rsf-tackles-taiwans-media-freedom-achilles-heel-boosts-asia-pacific-monitoring-action/" aria-label="Read more about RSF tackles Taiwan’s media freedom ‘Achilles heel’, boosts Asia Pacific monitoring action">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2024
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – Of the international intelligence information that comes to Australian agencies from the Five Eyes, 90 percent comes from the CIA and related US intelligence agencies. So in effect we have the colonisation of our intelligence agencies These agencies dominate the advice to ministers, writes John Menadue. ... <a title="John Menadue: America is the most violent, aggressive country in the world" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/15/john-menadue-america-is-the-most-violent-aggressive-country-in-the-world/" aria-label="Read more about John Menadue: America is the most violent, aggressive country in the world">Read more</a>
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June 6, 2024
COMMENTARY: By John Minto Good slogans have people nodding their heads in agreement because they recognise an underlying truth in the words. I have a worn-out t-shirt which carries the slogan, “The first casualty of war is truth — the rest are mostly civilians”. If you find yourself nodding in agreement it’s possibly because ... <a title="John Minto: The first casualty of war is truth – the rest are mostly civilians" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/06/john-minto-the-first-casualty-of-war-is-truth-the-rest-are-mostly-civilians/" aria-label="Read more about John Minto: The first casualty of war is truth – the rest are mostly civilians">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2024
COMMENTARY: By Malcolm Evans Last week’s leaked New York Times staff directive, as to what words can and cannot be used to describe the carnage Israel is raining on Palestinians, is proof positive, since those reports are published verbatim here in New Zealand, that our understanding of the conflict is carefully managed to always reflect ... <a title="Malcolm Evans: A new low in NZ media’s record of bias over Palestine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/23/malcolm-evans-a-new-low-in-nz-medias-record-of-bias-over-palestine/" aria-label="Read more about Malcolm Evans: A new low in NZ media’s record of bias over Palestine">Read more</a>
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March 2, 2024
Pacific Media Watch New Zealand news media came under fire at today’s Palestine solidarity rally in Auckland calling for an immediate ceasefire in the war in Gaza with speakers condemning what they said was pro-Israeli “bias” and “propaganda”. About 500 protesters waved Palestinian flags and many placards declaring “If you’re not heartbroken and furious, you’re ... <a title="NZ news media under fire for ‘bias, propaganda’ in Gaza coverage" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/02/nz-news-media-under-fire-for-bias-propaganda-in-gaza-coverage/" aria-label="Read more about NZ news media under fire for ‘bias, propaganda’ in Gaza coverage">Read more</a>
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January 20, 2024
By Binoy Kampmark The Age has revealed the dismissal of ABC broadcaster Antoinette Lattouf last December 20 was the nasty fruit of a campaign waged against chair Ita Buttrose and managing director David Anderson. The official reason for Lattouf’s dismissal was ordinary: she shared a post by Human Rights Watch about Israel “using starvation of civilians as a ... <a title="Cancelling the journalist: Furore over ABC’s coverage of Israel war on Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/20/cancelling-the-journalist-furore-over-abcs-coverage-of-israel-war-on-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Cancelling the journalist: Furore over ABC’s coverage of Israel war on Gaza">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2023
Jubi News in Jayapura The West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) has denied Indonesian media claims that Egianus Kogoya, the commander of a TPNPB faction, asked for money and weapons to free the New Zealand pilot they are holding hostage. “No, we never asked for money and weapons in exchange for releasing pilot Philip Mark ... <a title="Papuan rebels deny asking for money, weapons to free NZ pilot – ‘that’s just propaganda’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/03/papuan-rebels-deny-asking-for-money-weapons-to-free-nz-pilot-thats-just-propaganda/" aria-label="Read more about Papuan rebels deny asking for money, weapons to free NZ pilot – ‘that’s just propaganda’">Read more</a>
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January 27, 2023
REVIEW: By Rowan Callick Radio Australia was conceived at the beginning of the Second World War out of Canberra’s desire to counter Japanese propaganda in the Pacific. More than 70 years later its rebirth is being driven by a similarly urgent need to counter propaganda, this time from China. Set up within the towering framework ... <a title="Speaking to the world, but mirroring Australia’s off-again, on-again Pacific engagement" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/27/speaking-to-the-world-but-mirroring-australias-off-again-on-again-pacific-engagement/" aria-label="Read more about Speaking to the world, but mirroring Australia’s off-again, on-again Pacific engagement">Read more</a>
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October 13, 2022
ANALYSIS: By Danilo Arana Arao in Manila Upon assuming the Philippines presidency on 30 June 2022, Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr — the only son and namesake of the former dictator Ferdinand Marcos — delivered an inaugural address that did not mention press freedom. Press freedom also went unmentioned when he delivered his first State of ... <a title="How Philippine ‘press freedom’ has been abandoned under ‘Bongbong’ Marcos" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/13/how-philippine-press-freedom-has-been-abandoned-under-bongbong-marcos/" aria-label="Read more about How Philippine ‘press freedom’ has been abandoned under ‘Bongbong’ Marcos">Read more</a>
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June 22, 2022
By Loreben Tuquero in Manila On social media, Ferdinand Marcos Jr needed to have all pieces in place to stage a Malacañang comeback: he had a network of propagandist assets, popular myths that justified his family’s obscene wealth, and narratives that distorted the horrors of his father’s rule. He had even asked Cambridge Analytica to ... <a title="Duterte ‘institutionalised’ disinformation, paved the way for a Marcos victory" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/22/duterte-institutionalised-disinformation-paved-the-way-for-a-marcos-victory/" aria-label="Read more about Duterte ‘institutionalised’ disinformation, paved the way for a Marcos victory">Read more</a>
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September 20, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk The West Papua National Committee (KNPB) claims that an attack on a military post in Maybrat regency earlier this month is being used as a pretext to “force the KNPB into a corner” and to criminalise them, reports Suara Papua. The September 2 attack on Kisor sub-district military post in Maybrat ... <a title="Papua’s KNPB accuses Jakarta of using military post attack to criminalise them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/20/papuas-knpb-accuses-jakarta-of-using-military-post-attack-to-criminalise-them/" aria-label="Read more about Papua’s KNPB accuses Jakarta of using military post attack to criminalise them">Read more</a>
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September 7, 2021
By Katie Todd, RNZ News reporter An Australian criminologist who deemed the New Zealand shopping mall attacker “low risk” in 2018 believes there were missed opportunities to steer him away from violent extremism. Ahamed Samsudeen was described as a high risk to the community when he was sentenced in July for possessing Islamic State propaganda ... <a title="Missed opportunities to deradicalise attacker in NZ tragedy, says criminologist" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/07/missed-opportunities-to-deradicalise-attacker-in-nz-tragedy-says-criminologist/" aria-label="Read more about Missed opportunities to deradicalise attacker in NZ tragedy, says criminologist">Read more</a>