Presenters defiant as hundreds of listeners say use of Te Reo on radio and television excludes those who don’t speak the language.
High-profile New Zealand media personalities are refusing to back down from using Māori words in their prime-time broadcasting, despite hundreds of complaints from English speakers who say they feel excluded by the use of the Te Reo language.
Newshub presenter Kanoa Lloyd, who is of Māori descent, first began introducing Te Reo words to her weather reports in 2015 and immediately received a weekly torrent of complaints and online abuse. Many listeners said they were unhappy with Lloyd referring to New Zealand by its Te Reo name of Aotearoa, and to the North and South Islands by their Te Reo names of Te Ika-a-Maui and Te Waipounamu.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/28/new-zealand-broadcasters-refuse-to-stop-using-maori-words?
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