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Publication details [#52673]

Phelan, Sean. 2009. The newspaper as political antagonist: Editorial discourse and the othering of Maori perspectives on the foreshore and seabed conflict. Journalism 10 (2) : 217–237.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

aboriginal | colonialism | conflict | editorial | news reporting

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper argues that editorials of New Zealand's four biggest-selling daily newspapers discursively established an antagonistic frontier between 'national' (and Crown) and 'Maori' interests in the 2003 New-Zealand political conflict over the ownership of the country's foreshore and seabed.