Afghan War, 2001- - Journalists

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: 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: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0025802

Description: Journalists in a newsroom observe their colleague crying at his desk, one explaining he is upset because the New Zealand Defence Force does not consider him a subversive reporter. Refers to allegations that the Defence Force monitored the communications of certain reporters in Afghanistan. Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers

By: Southland times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0025808

Description: A spokesman for the `Ministry of Defensible' gives an unflattering description of journalists, but denies they are a target of military surveillance. Refers to revelations that the New Zealand Defence Force considered reporters to be potential `subversives', as well as their denials that journalists' communications in Afghanistan had been monitored. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).