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November 20, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Christopher Warren There’s been skillful work in journalism’s dark arts on display in the UK this past week, as the nasty British right-wing media pack tore down two senior BBC executives. The right-wing culture warriors will be celebrating big time. They reckon they’ve put a big dent in Britain’s most trusted and most ... <a title="Bending over backwards for the right isn’t saving the BBC. It won’t save the ABC either" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/20/bending-over-backwards-for-the-right-isnt-saving-the-bbc-it-wont-save-the-abc-either/" aria-label="Read more about Bending over backwards for the right isn’t saving the BBC. It won’t save the ABC either">Read more</a>
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September 2, 2025
Israel is boosting its Zionist influence in the Pacific. Australia has exposed such media influence. The media in the Philippines is now under scrutiny. And Aotearoa New Zealand? COMMENTARY: By Walden Bello When the Flores and Velasco articles and posts whitewashing Israel’s genocidal policies in Gaza first came out a few days ago, I was ... <a title="Walden Bello on Gaza and the media silence: ‘It isn’t fear of the Zionists. It is far worse’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/02/walden-bello-on-gaza-and-the-media-silence-it-isnt-fear-of-the-zionists-it-is-far-worse/" aria-label="Read more about Walden Bello on Gaza and the media silence: ‘It isn’t fear of the Zionists. It is far worse’">Read more</a>
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August 23, 2025
SPECIAL REPORT: By David Robie Protesters in their thousands have been taking to the streets in Aotearoa New Zealand demonstrating in solidarity with Palestine and against genocide for the past 97 weeks. Yet rarely have the protests across the motu made headlines — or even the news for that matter — unlike the larger demonstrations ... <a title="Facing up to genocide – a New Zealand journalist bears witness with Gaza and West Bank" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/23/facing-up-to-genocide-a-new-zealand-journalist-bears-witness-with-gaza-and-west-bank/" aria-label="Read more about Facing up to genocide – a New Zealand journalist bears witness with Gaza and West Bank">Read more</a>
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July 19, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Refaat Ibrahim “If words shape our consciousness, then the media holds the keys to minds.” This sentence is not merely a metaphor, but a reality we live daily in the coverage of the Israeli aggression on Gaza, where the crimes of the occupation are turned into “acts of violence”, the siege targeting civilians ... <a title="Systematic bias: how Western media reproduces the Israeli narrative" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/19/systematic-bias-how-western-media-reproduces-the-israeli-narrative/" aria-label="Read more about Systematic bias: how Western media reproduces the Israeli narrative">Read more</a>
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June 27, 2025
By Isaac Nellist of Green Left Magazine Australian-Lebanese journalist and commentator Antoinette Lattouf’s unfair dismissal case win against the public broadcaster ABC in the Federal Court on Wednesday is a victory for all those who seek to tell the truth. It is a breath of fresh air, after almost two years of lies and uncritical ... <a title="Antoinette Lattouf win against ABC a victory for all truth-tellers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/27/antoinette-lattouf-win-against-abc-a-victory-for-all-truth-tellers/" aria-label="Read more about Antoinette Lattouf win against ABC a victory for all truth-tellers">Read more</a>
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March 2, 2025
Pacific Media Watch With international media’s attention on the Israeli and Palestinian captives exchange, Israel’s military and settlers have been forcibly displacing tens of thousands of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, says Al Jazeera’s Listening Post media programme. The European Union has condemned Israel’s military operation in West Bank, attacking and killing refugees, and ... <a title="Israel’s genocide is expanding into the West Bank – but Western media ‘ignores’ it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/02/israels-genocide-is-expanding-into-the-west-bank-but-western-media-ignores-it/" aria-label="Read more about Israel’s genocide is expanding into the West Bank – but Western media ‘ignores’ it">Read more</a>
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November 16, 2024
Pacific Media Watch A media studies professor at Qatar’s Doha Institute for Graduate Studies has completed empirical studies examining Western media coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza — and his findings have been highly critical. Professor Mohamad Elmasry found that Western media have failed to do much more than “parrot Israeli propaganda regarding al-Shifa Hospital ... <a title="Western media ‘parrots Israeli propaganda’ over Gaza, says analyst" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/16/western-media-parrots-israeli-propaganda-over-gaza-says-analyst/" aria-label="Read more about Western media ‘parrots Israeli propaganda’ over Gaza, says analyst">Read more</a>
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November 14, 2024
Pacific Media Watch Hundreds of former employees of Israel lobbying groups such as AIPAC, StandWithUs and CAMERA are working in top newsrooms across the United States, writing and producing America’s news — including on Israel-Palestine, reports a new investigation. These outlets include MSNBC, The New York Times, CNN and Fox News, says the MintPress News ... <a title="Hundreds of Israel lobbyists ‘writing America’s news’, reveals new probe" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/14/hundreds-of-israel-lobbyists-writing-americas-news-reveals-new-probe/" aria-label="Read more about Hundreds of Israel lobbyists ‘writing America’s news’, reveals new probe">Read more</a>
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September 12, 2024
Pacific Media Watch Two open letters on the genocidal Israeli war against Palestinian sent to The Press for publication that have been ignored in the continued Aotearoa New Zealand media silence over 11 months of atrocities. Both letters have been sent to the Christchurch morning daily newspaper by the co-presenter of the Plains FM radio ... <a title="Open letters on Gaza that The Press shunned – the Handala protest" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/12/open-letters-on-gaza-that-the-press-shunned-the-handala-protest/" aria-label="Read more about Open letters on Gaza that The Press shunned – the Handala protest">Read more</a>
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September 8, 2024
OPEN LETTER: Our Action Station Dear TVNZ, We are deeply concerned with the misleading nature of the journalism presented in your recent coverage of the escalating crisis in Gaza and the West Bank. By focusing on specific language and framing, while leaving out the necessary context of international law, the broadcast misrepresents the reality of ... <a title="Open letter to TVNZ – stop the bias, report fairly on the Israeli war on Palestine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/08/open-letter-to-tvnz-stop-the-bias-report-fairly-on-the-israeli-war-on-palestine/" aria-label="Read more about Open letter to TVNZ – stop the bias, report fairly on the Israeli war on Palestine">Read more</a>
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April 28, 2024
The protest outside the White House correspondents’ dinner hotel. Image: Anatolu video screenshot APR More than two dozen Palestinian journalists had called for a boycott of the dinner, writing an open letter urging their American colleagues not to attend. “You have a unique responsibility to speak truth to power and uphold journalistic integrity,” said the ... <a title="Biden hails ‘press freedom, democracy’ but ignores Gaza media death toll of 142" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/28/biden-hails-press-freedom-democracy-but-ignores-gaza-media-death-toll-of-142/" aria-label="Read more about Biden hails ‘press freedom, democracy’ but ignores Gaza media death toll of 142">Read more</a>
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April 26, 2024
Pacific Media Watch Palestine solidarity protesters today demonstrated at the Auckland headquarters of Television New Zealand, accusing the country’s major TV network of broadcasting “propaganda” backing Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. About 50 protesters targeted the main entrance to the TVNZ building near Sky Tower and also picketed a side gate entrance for media workers ... <a title="Palestine protesters challenge TVNZ over Israeli ambassador’s ‘propaganda’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/26/palestine-protesters-challenge-tvnz-over-israeli-ambassadors-propaganda/" aria-label="Read more about Palestine protesters challenge TVNZ over Israeli ambassador’s ‘propaganda’">Read more</a>
