{"id":22108,"date":"2020-08-27T13:50:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T04:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/27\/new-zealand-media-put-christchurch-gunman-in-his-place-with-focus-on-victims"},"modified":"2020-08-27T13:50:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T04:50:47","slug":"new-zealand-media-put-christchurch-gunman-in-his-place-with-focus-on-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22108","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand media put Christchurch gunman in his place with focus on victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealanders and media embody Jacinda Ardern\u2019s approach to deny gunman publicity, muting coverage until life sentence delivered<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/27\/five-million-brothers-and-sisters-relief-mixes-with-joy-in-christchurch\">\u2018Five million brothers and sisters\u2019: relief mixes with joy in Christchurch<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/27\/christchurch-shooting-mosque-gunman-sentenced-to\">Mosque gunman sentenced to life without parole<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the first day of sentencing, New Zealand\u2019s public broadcaster TVNZ put out its nightly news bulletin. The legal process unfolding in Christchurch made it to fourth spot, behind three domestic Covid-19 stories.<\/p>\n<p>Radio New Zealand (RNZ) focused its attention on the victim impact statements. The gunman himself barely warrants a mention, beyond the briefest physical descriptions from journalists in the room.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/27\/new-zealand-media-put-christchurch-gunman-in-his-place-with-focus-on-victims\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealanders and media embody Jacinda Ardern\u2019s approach to deny gunman publicity, muting coverage until life sentence delivered\u2018Five million brothers and sisters\u2019: relief mixes with joy in ChristchurchMosque gunman sentenced to life without parole On&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1411,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,214,213,238,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-christchurch","category-christchurch-shooting","category-media","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22108"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22112,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22108\/revisions\/22112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}