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>Kia ora na all, > >As predicted, the PMG has responded to issues raised >with personal attacks against a reporter rather than >answering the main issues involved. > >To summarise, these issues are: > >1. PMG's lack of accountability, i.e. explain >programming cuts. >2. No adherence by PMG to a code of ethics or a >professional standards group with a written >constitution. >3. In fact, no code of ethics at all. > >In the past, when challenged on my hits - and misses - >as a reporter, editor, and a publisher, I have tried >my best to respond fully. PMG has yet to do this. >Instead, they attack critics instead of the criticism. > >For The Record. I have in the past praised PMG for >their energy in advertising, promotion and public >relations for various administrations and political >parties. I applaud and am not at all jealous of their >commercial success. I am even less jealous of their >failure, as a TV monopoly, to deliver ethical media. > >For The Record. An apology. I had been assured that it >was still ABC 24 hours a day in Aitutaki, the second >most developed island in the Cooks, and 110km by plane >from my Rarotonga base. I have checked by phone with >my Aitutaki source, and it is now clear I did not >question his comments from the often timeless outer >islands closely enough. My mistake and I apologise for >claiming that ATV does not take PMG programmes, >although this was the case for some years. Shoddy? >Perhaps. A mistake? Certainly. > >My point is that PMG has no mechanism by which >mistakes may be admitted, criticised or accounted for. >I have never seen them publish a For The Record, >correcting or clarifying anything. PMG refuses critics >Right of Reply. They have admitted their print items >suffer "embellishment" and are meant as >"entertainment" but only made that clear in one issue. > >Enough for now. My final point should be to >congratulate CITV for responding to criticism >positively - at in as much as the fact that they >replayed the documentary after my story to PMW. It's a >step in the right direction. > >Kia toa, > >jason

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