Sneak peek at the World Cup, Maori TV-style

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Tue, 06 Oct 2009 9:50p.m.

Maori TV's bid for the free-to-air broadcast rights to the Rugby World Cup has caused some political controversy. Te Puni Koriri wants to spend $3 million of funding earmarked for Maori development on the bid.

Some people have got a problem with the bid - but when you look at the coverage they provide of Anzac Day... Maori TV already has extensive experience in covering some of our nation's most historic defeats. The World Cup is a logical next step.
  
Maori MP Pita Sharples thinks it is a great way to bring Maori language and culture to the world. The only minor hurdle is that the Maori word for try, 'piro', also means to 'break wind'.

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Ali Ikram's item about Maori Television's bid for the rights to screen free-to-air segments of the Rugby World Cup has received some robust criticism. The story was intended as humorous satire and was not intended to cause offence. Ali Ikram is well known for this satirical style of journalism and the piece was clearly set up as humour and not to be taken seriously.
 
We apologise for any offence caused by the item. We took it off our website so that we could review it and consider the reaction to it and we are returning it so that our audience can make its own assessment of its merits and you can read the comments we have had on it so far. 
 
 
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02 Nov 2010 10:41p.m.

Kelly wrote:

I think the issue here is that TV3 are a news outlet and news outlets are supposed to be unbiased and completely based on facts and 'news'. This video belongs on a comedy show like Pulp Sport, Rove, 7days or something along the lines.

06 Mar 2010 08:03a.m.

Pierre Te Angina wrote:

hey you guys are funny as NOT!!!

08 Nov 2009 03:19p.m.

Korks wrote:

UNBELIEVEABLE!! TV3 was once hailed as breaking down the barriers, when they first came to air with Maori anchor, Joanna Paul, and using "Kia ora" as an intro in the early 90s. Now, with one pathetic, racist, disgusting attempt to grab a laugh, - you've become just another white, racist company who have just undone all the foundation previously laid by the pioneers of the station. It's ALL funny when the Maori are the expense of your jokes, but look out when a local Maori MP brings up the history of what white people did to Maori and their land!! All hell breaks loose! Not so funny when the boot's on the other foot. Thanks to TV3, you just added another brick to the wall of difference and intolerance...thanks for nothing.

01 Nov 2009 01:33p.m.

Mike wrote:

I agree it was racist but at the end of the day the jokes were not based on nothing. There were issues in that piece that ring true. I could be all upset about the ANZAC comment, but I'm too proud of our soldiers to give it second thought. I've read what they went through, I understand what happened. NZ just needs more understanding people.

23 Oct 2009 07:12p.m.

OMG!!!! wrote:

OMG this is sooo offensive its not funny??? why would you let this bull go to air TV3?? you have offended more then just Maori TV!! Shame on you!! Shame on you!! you know its more then just 'Pakiha' that are loyal to your station!! How disapointing this, are you that threatened by MAORI TV??

22 Oct 2009 02:11p.m.

cocoloco wrote:

Shame on TV3! Maori TV has every right to bid! They are a professional TV station that has progressed in leaps and bounds. If only TV 3 started showing some decent programmes now showing on Maori TV....I ain't watching one minute of rugby on TV3! That clip was nothing other than racist! And I saw Ali Ikram on Maori TV the other day because they are big enough to invite him...others wouldn't be so generous of spirit

21 Oct 2009 05:20p.m.

Cameron wrote:

Sure Matt, you have a point, but Maori television still has a right to bid for the rights and also it is the way TV3 went about presenting their views, I mean the whole thing was way over the top, there was no need for example to make fun of the haka, or to make fun about the issues surrounding the Treaty of Waitangi, it was an extremely poor way of presenting their views.

21 Oct 2009 05:09p.m.

whoever wrote:

This is a racist and offensive attempt at humor. I am not Maori at all, but this is going too far, Maori TV has a right to bid for the world cup, just like any other TV station and should not be singled out just because of its cultural focus. It was very disappointing to see tv3 stoop so low.

20 Oct 2009 12:04a.m.

ella teu wrote:

it may seem funny but this is culturally insensitive. Person that did conduct this needs to formally apologize to Maori tv and maori people. This maybe made out to be a joke but it really has hidden agendas and meanings. SHAME ON YOU ALI IKRAM!!!!

17 Oct 2009 08:52a.m.

Liposesa wrote:

Ha!!!!! How funny, but a serious embarrasment to NZ if the maori bid is successful. The world will view NZ as some pacific backwater and not the progressive 21st century country it is aspiring to be. Using race as a method of commercial gain is surely racist and seperatist is it not? More need to stand up and end this slippery slide into more of a divided nation that we are now. Too much of this "oh woe me, I'm a maori, therefore I need special treatment"