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full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/1356-3289.htm CCIJ 13,4 When an icon stumbles: the Ribena issue mismanaged Tony Jaques RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia Abstract Purpose – When two 14-year-old New Zealand schoolgirls challenged the advertising claims of Ribena blackcurrant drink – owned by global giant GlaxoSmithKline – they triggered a sequence of events which led to prosecution, public opprobrium and international damage to an iconic brand. The

finding out which of these stories are important and deserve our attention, and which stories can be ignored. The important role of journalism can be well observed in the recent coverage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) in both New Zealand and around the world. This is a ground breaking economic deal, and holds a great deal of importance for the 800 million citizens of the countries involved, as well as the rest of the world. With worldwide coverage of this deal, it is inevitable

The norm of journalism is to present information or news to the general public via mass media. Thus, it plays an important part in everyday life. Notwithstanding, media have a vigorous relation with politics especially among the democratic societies (Fernandez-Quijada 2013). Moreover, the media is also perceived as the "fourth estate" due to the fact that it able to influence and affects the perceptions of the general public towards the political movement (Kemp 2013). However, in comparison to the

importantly, the media (Bradley & Walters, 2011). Moral panics are influencing the way the public views crime, for example, if someone was murdered, it would be in the news and newspapers nationwide. Then the media would typically bring up other homocides from the past and ones that have happened recently but didn’t make the front page news. The media are therefore hindering the absence of the issue and are leading the public to believe that homocides

actions and decisions of news editors and producers (Surrette, 1992). The role of the media according to O’Shaughnessy and Stadler (2008) is to give the public an insight on what is happening in the world and to make sense of that information to the public. The main focus of this essay will be looking two main concepts which are newsworthiness and the dark figure of crime, relating 5 news articles that are centred around child abuse that have featured in the New Zealand Herald and stuff.co.nz. The media

increasingly prominent. Despite the receding negative attitudes towards gay and lesbian minority, according to scholars, such tolerance does not seem to extend to attitudes towards same-sex marriage (Edward, 2007). 1.2 Background On 17 April 2013, New Zealand House of Representatives has

The country being evaluated is New Zealand. New Zealand is a highly stable nation. They have a stable democracy, economy, trade agreements. To begin, New Zealand's holds a “parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy” (CIA). This means, the 120 members of parliament make the law's (house of representatives), the executive panel, administers the laws, and the judicial branch clarifies the law. This system is very similar to the Britain's government. Their “president” or better known as

Society was to be based on Egalitarianism (Shuker, 1987), but there is still a difference between private & public schools. Two of top five reasons parents give for choosing a private school are :  Small Class room Sizes  More Individual attention (Kelly & Scafidi, 2013).  In 2012, Education Minister, Hekia Parata, decided to increase  the class size as quality of teaching mattered more because teacher quality is far more cost-effective than reducing class  size (“Editorial: Size Matters

The New Zealand Flag debate (New Zealand Government, 2015, para. 1). Prime Minister John Key, the main advocate for change, officially launched such discussion last year in a public address he gave at Victoria’s University in Wellington. One of the main points presented in Key’s (2014) speech were his views on how he believes Moreover Key (2014) also argued (para. 88). So far the Prime Ministers proposal failed to inspire the public. On the contrary, it has produced a substantial amount of controversy

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