TVNZ rejects PSNA complaint

https://www.psna.nz/news/newsletter-no-182

TVNZ has rejected another complaint from Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa about its coverage of the Israeli genocide in Gaza.

PSNA complained that a report on 16 March failed to explain why Ansar Allah (aka the Houthi Rebels) were again attacking Israeli connected shipping in the Red Sea – that is, Israel had just resumed denying humanitarian supplies into Gaza.

We complained that if the report had been of a western country the reasons would have been spelt out in detail.

TVNZ replied with a list of previous reports where its 1News had given the reasons why Ansar Allah had targeted ships going to and from Israel.

We have to concede that it has been a number of times.

But a closer look at the content of these previous reports reveals a deeper bias than simply ignoring the Ansar Allah motives.

The reasons for choosing to broadcast these stories appears to be to mock and criticise Ansar Allah for ‘vowing revenge’, attacking US ships when they say they are targeting Israeli vessels only, and mistakenly targeting ‘vessels that had little or no link’ to the Israeli attacks on Gaza.