Racism in the Aotearoa New Zealand media is the subject of scholarly debate that examines how Māori (Indigenous Peoples of New Zealand) are broadcast in a negative and demeaning light. Literature demonstrates evolving understandings of how the industry places Pākehā (New Zealanders primarily of European descent) interests at the heart of broadcasting. We offer new insights by arguing that the media industry propagates a racial discourse of silencing that sustains widespread ignorance of the ways that Pākehā sensibilities mediate society. We draw attention to a silencing discourse through one televised story in 2018. On-screen interactions reproduce and safeguard a harmonious narrative of settler–Indigenous relations that support ignorance and denial of the structuring force of colonisation, and the Television Code of Broadcasting Practice upholds colour-blind perceptions of discrimination and injustice through liberal rhetoric. These processes ensure that the media industry is complicit in racism and the ongoing oppression of Indigenous peoples.

新西兰Aotearoa媒体中的种族主义是学术辩论的主题，该主题探讨了毛利人（新西兰土著人民）如何以消极和贬低的态度传播。文献表明，人们对该行业如何将Pākehā（主要是欧洲血统的新西兰人）的利益置于广播的核心地位的认识不断发展。我们通过争辩说媒体行业传播了一种沉默的种族话语，从而使人们普遍不了解帕克哈的情感调解社会的方式，从而提供了新的见解。我们通过2018年的一个电视故事吸引人们关注沉默的话语。屏幕上的互动再现并维护了定居者与土著人之间的和谐叙事，支持无知和否定殖民主义的结构力量，自由主义的言论。这些过程确保媒体行业与种族主义和持续的土著人民压迫相伴。