{"id":7476,"date":"2015-08-13T08:11:35","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T19:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=7476"},"modified":"2015-08-13T08:11:54","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T19:11:54","slug":"newstalk-zb-rachel-smalley-talks-women-in-radio-broadcasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=7476","title":{"rendered":"Newstalk ZB Rachel Smalley talks Women in Radio Broadcasting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/TraceyLee_avatar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7467\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/TraceyLee_avatar.jpg\" alt=\"TraceyLee_avatar\" width=\"70\" height=\"80\" \/><\/a>\u00a0Tracey Lee Repia<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ZB-Talkback.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7468\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ZB-Talkback-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"ZB Talkback\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ZB-Talkback-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ZB-Talkback-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ZB-Talkback-119x89.jpg 119w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ZB-Talkback-570x428.jpg 570w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ZB-Talkback-701x526.jpg 701w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ZB-Talkback-1067x800.jpg 1067w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>In a recent media release Rachel Smalley raises some very important issues around the ratio of Women in broadcasting with Newstalk ZB.<\/p>\n<p>Now I am no rocket scientist but I think her statement is a fair one considering. I applaude Rachel for \u2018starting the conversation\u2019 she points out<\/p>\n<p>Key facts that there is indeed &#8221; a near-monopoly of male broadcasters who are shaping our perspectives, directing the course of interviews,<\/p>\n<p>setting the news agenda and, ultimately, influencing our opinions and point of views\u201d she further goes on to state that New Zealand society isn\u2019t straight white and male, I tend to strongly agree.<\/p>\n<p>Along with half the Maori and Pacific nation I couldn\u2019t help but notice the Newstalk ZB pin up picture of broadcasters seemed to lack the various shades of brown don\u2019t you think?<\/p>\n<p>Now I happen to know some very talented well educated, smart Maori and Pasifika broadcasters, journalists, directors and behind the scenes media geniuses and I can\u2019t stop to wonder what they think about all of this. So I say yes, let\u2019s start this conversation if we are going to talk equality<\/p>\n<p>For women, men and other cultures of Aotearoa. How about let\u2019s start talking equality with the broadcasting agencies for Maori and Pasifika women, the problem seems to be across the board.<\/p>\n<p>I think if Cameron Slater had his way, all us Maori and Women in New Zealand would be living on planet \u201cin his dreams\u201d\u2026sometimes I wonder if he even lives on this planet\u2026like seriously. Maybe his mirror could tell a few stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Tracey Lee Repia In a recent media release Rachel Smalley raises some very important issues around the ratio of Women in broadcasting with Newstalk ZB. Now I am no rocket scientist but I think her statement is a fair one considering. I applaude Rachel for \u2018starting the conversation\u2019 she points out Key facts that there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":7468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7476"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7477,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7476\/revisions\/7477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}