Stephenson, Jon, active 2013

Date: 2013

From: Doyle, Martin Maurice Michael Thomas, 1956- :Digital cartoons

By: Scoop (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0025585

Description: Depicts New Zealand Journalist Jon Stephenson standing in front of a pile of bodies. Beside him is Lieutenant General Rhys Jones. Refers to media statement made by Jones about Stephenson's Metro article on the role of the Special Air Service unit in the war in Afghanistan, and allegations that SAS knew they were handing Afhgan detainees on to US troops and Afghan authorities to be tortured. Jones claimed that Stephenson had never met an army source quoted in the article (see NZ Herald 20 July 2013). Accompanying note from cartoonist states 'The treatment of New Zealand's award-winning journalist Jon Stephenson by the Defence Force calls into question just what qualities our society holds dear'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Doyle, Martin Maurice Michael Thomas, 1956- :Digital cartoons

By: Twitter Inc (Firm); Facebook (Firm); Scoop (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0025695

Description: Three men, labelled 'NZDF', 'Media Monopopolies' and 'Govt Spin' have chained a journalist. 'NZDF' says that NZ Journalism is in good hands while 'Media Monopolies' comments 'Fun, eh?' and 'Govt Spin' drinks a glass of wine. Accompanying note from cartoonist states: 'Has the New Zealand Defence Force has forgotten the values they should be protecting?' In July 2013 Jon Stephenson, an investigative journalist in Afghanistan, claimed that he was put under surveillance by the New Zealand Defence Forces, who classified him as a 'subversion ' threat after he reported unfavourably on the treament of prisoners by the Force. Neither the government nor much of the news media took his side in his subsequent defamation case. Published on Martin Doyle's cartoon Facebook site (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Martin-Doyle/607865899238901?ref=hl) and Twitter (Twitter@Mart_cartoons) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Doyle, Martin Maurice Michael Thomas, 1956- :Digital cartoons

By: Twitter Inc (Firm); Facebook (Firm); Scoop (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0025694

Description: Under the caption 'NZDF surveillance photo showing a typical editorial meeting of New Zealand journalists', Che Guevara, Mao Tse Tung, Karl Marx, Adolf Hitler, a 'gormless moron', a 'bitch from hell' and other sinister types are grouped. They are journalists as conceived by the New Zealand Defence Force. Accompanying note from cartoonist states: 'An odd time we live in when it needs to be stated that journalists are not the enemy of the NZ military. Who is the "subversive" party in all this? Who is subverting a society based on free speech?' In July 2013 a New Zealand journalist, Jon Stephenson, brought a defamation case against illegal surveillance by the New Zealand Defence Force who listed him as 'subversive' after he reported unfavourably on the treament of prisoners by the Force in Afghanistan. The Defence Force used the services of the United States National Security Agency for the spying. Published on Martin Doyle's cartoon Facebook site (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Martin-Doyle/607865899238901?ref=hl) and Twitter (Twitter@Mart_cartoons) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Hubbard, James, 1949-: Digital caricatures and cartoons

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0025724

Description: Stripped to his underwear and surrounded by flies, Prime Minister John Key tries to disinfect himself with a spray can labelled `Evade'. On his bathroom vanity lies a newspaper with the headline `Journalists question origin of smell hanging over media spying'. Refers to recent allegations that the Defence Force had monitored the phone calls of journalist Jon Stephenson. John Key denied that the Government Communcations Security Bureau, itself the subject of ongoing controversy, was involved in spying on Stephenson. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Hubbard, James, 1949-: Digital caricatures and cartoons

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0025723

Description: A smirking soldier with the name tag `Defence Force'. His beret has a badge featuring the head of the Minister of Defence Jonathan Coleman saying, "The defence force has not illegally spied on any NZ journalist...". Refers to recent allegations that the New Zealand military monitored the phone calls of journalist Jon Stephenson. Coleman denied the claims. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post]

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0025768

Description: Dr Jonathan Coleman, the Minister of Defence, assures the New Zealand news media that no journalist has been ever subjected to illegal surveillance by the Defence Forces. He privately thinks that once the GCSB Amendment Bill becomes law 'we won't have to pussyfoot around like this....' On 30 July 2013 Defence Minister Jonathan Coleman said he must accept assurances from the Defence Force that it did not spy on the New Zealand journalist, Jonathan Coleman with the help of the NSA while in Afghanistan. After the GCSB Amendment Bill was passed into law, the Defence Force could spy with impunity and without acknowledgement. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Slane, Christopher, 1957-: Digital cartoons published in the Listener, New Zealand Herald, or New Zealand Farmers' Weekly

By: Listener (Periodical)

Reference: DCDL-0025773

Description: Depicts a New Zealand Army tank firing wildly as it rolls through a desert landscape. Refers to evidence which has emerged in the defamation case bought by freelance Journalist Jon Stephenson against the Chief of the Defence Force General Rhys Jones. Stephenson has had his movements and telephone calls monitored by the New Zealand Army. Former SAS Head Colonel Chris Parsons admitted that he had ordered his men to be on the lookout for Stephenson in Afghanistan in 2010. It was also revealed that a security manual used by the Defence Force for 10 years gave instructions that some investigative journalists should be seen as threats to national security (see TV3 News 30 July 2013. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Smith, Hayden James, 1976-:[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

By: Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0025775

Description: Depicts a man standing by and watching as a soldier is under a tank fixing it's armour in case of "...investigative journalists". The tank is labelled 'NZ Defence Force'. Refers to evidence provided by Journalist Nicky Hagar that the New Zealand Army received help from American spy agencies to spy on freelance Journalist Jon Stephenson while he was reporting on the war in Aghanistan. A leaked army security manual reveals journalists were seen as "hostile individuals" and to be treated as subversives (see Dominion Post 30 July 2013). Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Murdoch, Sharon Gay, 1960-: Digital cartoons published in The Press, Sunday Star Times, Dominion Post, and other publications

By: Dominion post (Newspaper); Murdoch, Sharon Gay, 1960-

Reference: DCDL-0025879

Description: Captioned 'The Keyhole', the cartoon shows the Prime Minister, John Key, spying through a keyhole and and wondering 'What are those bloody a) terrorists, b) journalists, c) Kiwis, d) all of the above up to now?' Refers to the attitude of the Prime Minister over the extension of the activities of the GCSB into domestic surveillance with the passing of the GCSB Amendment Act, and the expansion of his government's surveillance from terrorists to journalists (such as Andrea Vance and Jon Stephenson) and other New Zealanders. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).