June 13, 2023 1:00pm by David Farrar

Radio NZ also doing one sided edits on Middle East articles

Yesterday, RNZ CEO Paul Thompson apologised to the public for copy wire articles that were altered without senior management realising.

Thompson told Checkpoint "I would point out that it is confined to one area."

Checkpoint reported that "He said the audit had not yet found…
— Thomas Cranmer (@CranmerWrites) June 12, 2023

Thomas Cranmer has broken more stories in the last 12 months than many journalists, and he is a lawyer!

Here he has found an example of Radio NZ taking a neutral article from Reuters on Israel/Palestine and changing it to remove reference to the Palestinians being gunmen and refers to Hamas as being democratically elected, when the last election was 17 years ago!

Radio NZ need a full and independent inquiry into all aspects of how they edit material from overseas sites.

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