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- Title
10. The Clydesdale report: Issues of media and academic responsibility.
- Authors
de Bres, Joris
- Abstract
One of New Zealand's leading daily newspapers, The Dominion Post, greeted its readers on 20 May 2008 with a front page headline declaring that Pacific migrants were a 'drain on the economy'. This was reportedly the finding of a study released by Massey University economist Dr Greg Clydesdale, that 'Pacific Islanders' crime rates, poor education and low employment were creating an underclass and a drain on the economy. Pacific peoples were angered and dismayed by the Clydesdale claims, their publication on the front page of the Dominion Post, and racially prejudiced responses on talkback radio and the internet. Little evidence was provided to support the claim that they were an underclass or a drain on the economy. The Dominion Post said it published the story because of Clydesdale's status as an academic. Massey University said Clydesdale was exercising his academic freedom. This article is a case study of the controversy examining the intersecting responsibilities of academics, media and universities in response to a group vulnerable to racial stereotypes.
- Subjects
PALMERSTON North (N.Z.); NEW Zealand; CLYDESDALE, Greg; FREEDOM of information; MASS media; PACIFIC Islanders; NEWSPAPERS; POLITICAL economic analysis; MASSEY University (Palmerston North, N.Z.)
- Publication
Pacific Journalism Review: Te Koakoa, 2009, Vol 15, Issue 1, p149
- ISSN
1023-9499
- Publication type
Article