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‘Soviet-era Stasi’ or defender of media freedoms? The battle for the Broadcasting Standards Authority

  • Written by Peter Thompson, Associate Professor in Media and Communication, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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The decision by the Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) to formally consider a complaint about something Sean Plunket said on The Platform has now spun well beyond the complaint itself.

At the centre of the controversy is not so much the question of whether it was racist for Plunket to refer to Māori tikanga as “mumbo...

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