December 02, 2020
True apology will need Maori perspective
Māori Development Minister wants more media organisations to take up Stuff's challenge to address their systemic racism.
Stuff has apologised for what it describes as 160 years of biased and blinkered coverage of Māori issues, and it has promised to take on more Māori staff.
Mr Jackson says all media need to take a good look at how they cover Māori issues and what resources they put into it.
Change is happening in some parts of the sector but too slowly.
"We have seen people like Maiki Sherman and Jenny May Coffin come into TVNZ, I think that's a start, but we want to see that across the board. I want to see those types of people in the Herald, in the Dominion, and I want to see Māori viewpoints and Māori perspectives," Mr Jackson says.
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