An ongoing review of the public broadcaster, Radio New Zealand (RNZ), has not only discovered a pro-Russian slant in its articles but also evidence of pro-Beijing and pro-Palestinian bias.
RNZ chief executive, Paul Thompson, most recently apologised for publishing “pro-Kremlin garbage.”
Speaking to the RNZ’s own daily news program, Checkpoint, Thompson described it as a “serious breach of our editorial standards.”
“We’re feeling shocked and stunned and really, really challenged by this,” he said.
“We’ve let our audience down, and the Ukrainian community down, but I do need to make sure that we have a robust process because we’ve got enough challenges on our plate at the moment, I don’t want to compound that by getting ahead of a fair process.”…