News & the politics of satire: TV3's 7 Days

10.26686/wgtn.17008441.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

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Elyse Katherine Robêrt

Keyword(s):

Popular Culture ◽

New Zealand ◽

News Media ◽

Literary Tradition ◽

Television Show ◽

Counter Narrative ◽

Close Analysis ◽

Current Affairs ◽

The Us ◽

Uncertain Future

<p>As New Zealand’s favoured satirical television show 7 Days reconstitutes the week’s current affairs and offers up a valuable counter narrative to traditional news media through its remixing of the conventions of news and the panel quiz show. Whilst many academics have studied satirical television in the US and UK contexts very little attention has been paid to the collection of New Zealand television satire and local audiences’ preference for satire over other local comedy forms. In comparing the three television systems several characteristics emerge as unique to 7 Days and New Zealand’s satiric tradition; an affinity for self-deprecating humour, the targeting of hubris, and the assailing of tall poppy syndrome; the hailing and sustenance of public feeling, and thereby the nourishment of nationalism and a communal ‘Kiwi’ identity. Television satire dealing in news and review is a well-established practice but is often referred to in academia and popular culture as simply a ‘genre’ when it rather operates as somewhere between a discourse and a genre. Television satire is born of a strong literary tradition but literary criticisms fail to adequately address the functions of contemporary satire; its affective powers, the limits of its uptake, and the ideological footing of its critiques. Examples from US and UK television are considered as precursors to New Zealand satire, and a close analysis of 7 Days reveals that it is not only the conventions of genre that limit satire’s incarnations but also an unstable broadcasting history and an uncertain future.</p>

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The suitcase, the samurai sword and the Pumpkin: Asian crime and NZ news media treatment

Pacific Journalism Review – Te Koakoa ◽

10.24135/pjr.v14i2.951 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 14 (2) ◽

pp. 183-204

Author(s):

Sarah Baker ◽

Jeanie Benson

Keyword(s):

Domestic Violence ◽

New Zealand ◽

News Media ◽

Chinese Student ◽

High Profile ◽

First Case ◽

Current Affairs ◽

The Press ◽

The Media ◽

Young Daughter

In 2005 and 2007, two high profile crimes were reported in the New Zealand media. The first case invovled the murder of a young Chinese student, Wan Biao, whose dismembered body was discovered in a suitcase. The second case involved domestic violence in which a Chinese man murdered his wife and fled the scene with their young daughter— who the press later dubbed 'Pumpkin' when she was found abandoned in Melbourne, Australia. The authors discuss how news and current affairs programmes decontextualise 'Asian' stories to portray a clear divide between the 'New zealand' public and the separate 'Asian other'. Asians are portrayed as a homogenous group and the media fails to distinguish between Asians as victims of crimes as a separate category to Asians as perpetrators of crimes. This may have consequences for the New Zealand Asian communities and the wider New Zealand society as a whole.

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“Go NZ YAS!!”: Children’s news media texts as curriculum resources in Aotearoa New Zealand

Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood ◽

10.1177/1463949119888496 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 20 (4) ◽

pp. 337-349

Author(s):

Alexandra C Gunn ◽

Nicola Surtees

Keyword(s):

New Zealand ◽

News Media ◽

School Curriculum ◽

Media Content ◽

News Reporting ◽

Pedagogical Strategy ◽

Know How ◽

Aotearoa New Zealand ◽

Current Affairs ◽

The World

Attending to current affairs and news within schools’ curricula is a potential pedagogical strategy that holds promise for addressing children’s knowledge, perspectives and agency in the world. However, our research suggests teachers’ good intentions may be compromised by tension between the details of news media content and the curriculum as enacted and planned. We report here on a study investigating two children’s news media publications designed to support Aotearoa New Zealand’s school curriculum. Our research enquires into content produced as children’s news and associated discourses about Aotearoa New Zealand, Aotearoa New Zealand life and the world. A dominant category of news reporting in the texts was sport (national and international). Analysis of this category identified particular discourses and constructions of New Zealand, New Zealanders and ‘others’ within the texts. Individual and collective sporting heroism was a dominant discourse in both the news items and children’s published responses. Furthermore, a construction of Aotearoa New Zealand as a relatively safe and non-corrupt place to live was also observed. Questions of what is important to know, how children are engaging with such valued knowledge and implications for teaching and teachers’ practices are raised from this research. Importantly, we ask: is this preoccupation with sports and heroism within children’s news made at the expense of opportunities to engage with children about a fuller range of real-world issues, including ‘difficult knowledge’, that potentially impact upon their lives?

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Dimensions of Indigenous journalism culture: Exploring Māori news-making in Aotearoa New Zealand

Journalism ◽

10.1177/1464884913495757 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 15 (8) ◽

pp. 951-967 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Folker Hanusch

Keyword(s):

New Zealand ◽

News Media ◽

Research Community ◽

Limited Attention ◽

Communication Research ◽

Mainstream Media ◽

Aotearoa New Zealand ◽

Counter Narrative ◽

Mainstream Society ◽

Depth Interviews

Indigenous news media have experienced significant growth across the globe in recent years, but they have received only limited attention in mainstream society or the journalism and communication research community. Yet, Indigenous journalism is playing an arguably increasingly important role in contributing to Indigenous politics and identities, and is worthy of closer analysis. Using in-depth interviews, this article provides an overview of the main dimensions of Indigenous journalism as they can be found in the journalism culture of Ma¯ori journalists in Aotearoa New Zealand. It argues that Ma¯ori journalists see their role as providing a counter-narrative to mainstream media reporting and as contributing to Indigenous empowerment and revitalization of their language. At the same time, they view themselves as watchdogs, albeit within a culturally specific framework that has its own constraints. The article argues that the identified dimensions are reflective of evidence on Indigenous journalism from across the globe.

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The Art of Love Poetry

10.1093/oso/9780198752974.001.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Erik Gray

Keyword(s):

Popular Culture ◽

Cultural History ◽

Literary Tradition ◽

Love Poetry ◽

Erotic Love ◽

Wide Range ◽

History Of ◽

And Function ◽

Meaning And Function ◽

Comprehensive History

Love begets poetry; poetry begets love. These two propositions have seemed evident to thinkers and poets across the Western literary tradition. Plato writes that “anyone that love touches instantly becomes a poet.” And even today, when poetry has largely disappeared from the mainstream of popular culture, it retains its romantic associations. But why should this be so—what are the connections between poetry and erotic love that lead us to associate them so strongly with one another? An examination of different theories of both love and poetry across the centuries reveals that the connection between them is not merely an accident of cultural history—the result of our having grown up hearing, or hearing about, love poetry—but something more intrinsic. Even as definitions of them have changed, the two phenomena have consistently been described in parallel terms. Love is characterized by paradox. Above all, it is both necessarily public, because interpersonal, and intensely private; hence it both requires expression and resists it. In poetry, especially lyric poetry, which features its own characteristic paradoxes and silences, love finds a natural outlet. This study considers both the theories and the love poems themselves, bringing together a wide range of examples from different eras in order to examine the major structures that love and poetry share. It does not aim to be a comprehensive history of Western love poetry, but an investigation into the meaning and function of recurrent tropes, forms, and images employed by poets to express and describe erotic love.

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The Art of Hearing

10.1093/oso/9780198804802.003.0004 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Rosamund Oates

Keyword(s):

Popular Culture ◽

Close Analysis

This chapter examines the importance of preaching in godly culture, showing how sermons were popular, accessible, and affecting. This helps to explain the appeal of Puritanism. The chapter shows how sermon culture existed in different forms, exploring different listening practices and also demonstrates that printed sermons existed alongside, not instead of, the experience of attending sermons. A newly discovered sermon notebook charts Matthew’s preaching from Oxford to Durham and York, showing how he prepared and revised his sermons. Close analysis of his texts and annotations in his books, indicates how he used his library to prepare his sermons, as well as drawing on popular culture to make his sermons widely accessible and appealing.

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Overview: The international group for indigenous health measurement and COVID-19

Statistical Journal of the IAOS ◽

10.3233/sji-210793 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-6

Author(s):

Michele Connolly ◽

Kalinda Griffiths ◽

John Waldon ◽

Malcolm King ◽

Alexandra King ◽

...

Keyword(s):

New Zealand ◽

Total Population ◽

Indigenous Health ◽

Health Data ◽

Indigenous Populations ◽

Health Measurement ◽

Country Group ◽

International Group ◽

The Us ◽

The Impact

The International Group for Indigenous Health Measurement (IGIHM) is a 4-country group established to promote improvements in the collection, analysis, interpretation and dissemination of Indigenous health data, including the impact of COVID-19. This overview provides data on cases and deaths for the total population as well as the Indigenous populations of each country. Brief summaries of the impact are provided for Canada and New Zealand. The Overview is followed by. separate articles with more detailed discussion of the COVID-19 experience in Australia and the US.

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Newsmaking criminology in Australia and New Zealand: Results from a mixed methods study of criminologists’ media engagement

Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology ◽

10.1177/0004865819854794 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 53 (1) ◽

pp. 84-101 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Mary Iliadis ◽

Imogen Richards ◽

Mark A Wood

Keyword(s):

New Zealand ◽

News Media ◽

The United States ◽

Mixed Methods Study ◽

The Past ◽

Professional Duty ◽

The Subject ◽

Survey Responses ◽

Insight Into ◽

Newsmaking Criminology

‘Newsmaking criminology’, as described by Barak, is the process by which criminologists contribute to the generation of ‘newsworthy’ media content about crime and justice, often through their engagement with broadcast and other news media. While newsmaking criminological practices have been the subject of detailed practitioner testimonials and theoretical treatise, there has been scarce empirical research on newsmaking criminology, particularly in relation to countries outside of the United States and United Kingdom. To illuminate the state of play of newsmaking criminology in Australia and New Zealand, in this paper we analyse findings from 116 survey responses and nine interviews with criminologists working in universities in these two countries, which provide insight into the extent and nature of their news media engagement, and their related perceptions. Our findings indicate that most criminologists working in Australia or New Zealand have made at least one news media appearance in the past two years, and the majority of respondents view news media engagement as a professional ‘duty’. Participants also identified key political, ethical, and logistical issues relevant to their news media engagement, with several expressing a view that radio and television interviewers can influence criminologists to say things that they deem ‘newsworthy’.

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