New Zealand's national broadcaster probes 'inappropriate' editing of Ukraine war stories

Oh no! Fake news by a media outlet! No kidding!

"a false account of events". in the Nooz? tell me it's not true!!!!!! （⌒▽⌒）

which is government funded but has editorial independence

Sounds like the next sighting of those very rare pregnant virgins. Anyway, if they don’t have real problems then they just create some there. It’s completely useless and insignificant what they think or write or old news they re-edit on a war that is running at the almost opposite location of the globe.

Sneaky Russian supporters everywhere twisting the narrative.

Alongfortheride

Oh no! Fake news by a media outlet! No kidding!

Well, the media outlet didn't publish fake news.

Some pro-Putin imperialist edited the story that made it fake news.

MoonrakerToday  12:47 pm JST

Sneaky Russian supporters everywhere twisting the narrative.

Russian hackers and stooges messed with media coverage in the States, leading to the rise of Antichrist trump and now they're trying to hit NZ. Next thing you know they'll be trying to interfere in the Kiwi elections too.

In Russia, China, South Africa, India and almost all of the Muslim world, the so-called "fake" news is the real news and the Western narrative is the fake news.

Pure tosh. Yes of course, because those countries that you mentioned are well known for their free press and not at all being largely controlled by the state.

In many of those countries, the state news is the only option you have.

Try going to those places and writing an article critical of the government. Let's see how quickly you'll be begging your own government to get you out of jail.

At a congressional hearing the CIA admitted to planting stories in the western media...look it up.

At a congressional hearing the CIA admitted to planting stories in the western media...look it up.

I am sure it is true, and am not going to defend the practice, but propaganda has been used for as long as there has been a way of dispensing information. The concern here is not that the government has been editing the story, but a journalist within RNZ has been maliciously editing the news to create a false narrative.

the CIA admitted to planting stories in the western media.

And this article reminds us that when that does happen, there is very often an actual investigation into the incident, rectification of the facts and reprimands for those responsible. This is why the Western MSM media is far more credible than its peers in Russia and most other countries.

@ThubanToday 01:10 pm JST

In Russia, China, South Africa, India and almost all of the Muslim world, the so-called "fake" news is the real news and the Western narrative is the fake news.

That's why we have the World Press Freedom index to introduce some truth into the debate and guess what? The autocracy brigade has no press freedom.

@LegrandeToday 03:06 pm JST

At a congressional hearing the CIA admitted to planting stories in the western media...look it up.

It is not unseemly to declassify things to preempt Russian false flag operations.

History is written by the victors.

The piece then inaccurately claimed that "Russia annexed Crimea after a referendum, as the new pro-Western government suppressed ethnic Russians in eastern and southern Ukraine".

Inaccurate perhaps, but it matches what I read in the UK press at the time. The referendum results were considered highly questionable, but I understand a referendum was held. And I read that the Russian language wasn't to be used in schools, which sounds like repression of a kind.

The corrected version on the RNZ site restored the original wording in the Reuters story, which stated that the “conflict in eastern Ukraine began in 2014 after a pro-Russian president was toppled in Ukraine’s Maidan Revolution and Russia annexed Crimea, with Russian-backed separatist forces fighting Ukraine’s armed forces”.

I only recall reading of fighting between Ukraine forces and Russian-backed separatists in the Donbas region and not in Crimea.

And no, I am not a supporter of Putin's invasion. I think he's crazy. But Ukraine's government wasn't exactly nice around 2014.

RNZ (or Red Radio as many of us NZers know it) - has a recent history of exceedingly left-biased content and unbalanced fawning over the government. It is no surprise that there are ongoing issues there with the highly controversial Minister for Broadcasting, Willie Jackson, having a long history of unsavoury incidents and a clear love of grift.

14 of the stories were Reuters, this story is Reuters and Canadian owned Reuters has been the cheer leading squad for Ukraine since the start.

I bet .ore likely the editor removed Reuters unprofessional bias.

so censorsip?

why dont you use proper words/terms?

EastmannJune 12 06:29 pm JST

so censorsip?

They are stories from the broadcaster. Not everybody gets to be a journalist for any news organization, least of all a reputable one.

Eastmann

so censorsip?

why dont you use proper words/terms?

You think it's censorship to falsify news?

Antiquesaving

14 of the stories were Reuters, this story is Reuters and Canadian owned Reuters has been the cheer leading squad for Ukraine since the start.

They weren't opinion pieces. They were factual pieces that were edited to be false.

If this happened in Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, Syria, well anywhere outside the White Bloc, it would be called suppressing the media, cracking down on dissent, even proof that the 'regime' was about to be overthrown by democracy. It happened inside the White Bloc, so it's called evidence of foreign meddling.

RichardPearce

If this happened in Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, Syria, well anywhere outside the White Bloc, it would be called suppressing the media, cracking down on dissent, even proof that the 'regime' was about to be overthrown by democracy. It happened inside the White Bloc, so it's called evidence of foreign meddling.

What is "this"? Are you saying that the unauthorised edits on the news stories should be allowed?

RichardPearceToday 03:19 am JST

If this happened in Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, Syria, well anywhere outside the White Bloc, it would be called suppressing the media, cracking down on dissent, even proof that the 'regime' was about to be overthrown by democracy. It happened inside the White Bloc, so it's called evidence of foreign meddling.

Did you hear anything in there about someone being arrested? No, you did not.