As the row over Maori Television’s bid for the free-to-air rights to broadcast 16 games from the Rugby World Cup (RWC) 2011 rumbles on, is this actually about what’s on the telly, or the skin colour of the people delivering it to us?
The $3 million is well spent. It’s cheaper than just about any survey the government could have come up with to show what attitudes towards Maori are like, and the responses are so delightfully supportive. If nothing else, the money tells us that we’ve got a long way to go.
