The latest NZ on Air funding round reads like a woke parody of itself.
The punchline is the $5.4million cost.
Still laughing?
Here are the funding highlights:
A podcast about being fat, one about ‘neurodiversity’ and an undercover story on The Spinoff uncovering sexual grooming through the telling of one woman’s lived experience.
Which is funny when you consider The Spinoff was the platform that alleged a sexual assault and then had to back down on the story after enormous holes in it were omitted.
So fabulously fat, fabulously neuro-divergent and fabulously MeToo.
Fabulously Identity Politics.
Fabulously NZ on Air.
How many diversity boxes can you tick in this funding decision…
Breaking The Ice Ceiling to be aired on Stuff follows Lydia Bradey (ONZM), the first woman to summit Mt Everest without oxygen, as she mentors former addict Holly Beckham on her mission to be the first wahine Māori to scale Everest.
…if you throw in the imagery of two women conquering the phallic Mt Everest you also have a symbolic victory against the patriarchy!
I am betting it took NZ on Air less than 30 seconds to green light this…
The topic of sexuality and self-discovery is addressed in Red Light Boys, which follows the day-to-day lives of four sexually diverse cis-male and transgender male sex workers aged 18-25 and a more mature sex worker who’s been in the industry from age 14.
…as NZ plunges into a recession during an election year, I’m seeing little in journalism that will explain the nation to itself, instead I see middle identity virtue signals.
This funding round feels like a Dinner Party in Khandallah where you are stuck between Guyon Espiner and Toby Manhire arguing with Emily Writes over who hates heteronormative white cis males the most.
I’m counting almost $600 000 to The Spinoff. I thought the producer and platform were supposed to be different when applying for NZ on Air funding, yet Hex is owned by Duncan Grieve and he owns the platform as well?
It’s good Bryan Bruce will be getting some documentary funding but the rest of the content feels like a woke vegan feast from vegetation that don’t cast any shadows.
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A doc about a Karangahape Rd sex worker who turns to God and becomes a politician and gets rich could be good. Either Motorbikes or Mercedes could be provide nice shiny optics. Sandals out. Riding on asses definitely out.
And this is why I am more than happy to see RNZ fall apart. It’s full of this kind of shit to such a degree that it is no longer a trusted source of news. It too only broadcasts what is “diverse” and “politically correct” and in fact shapes its news bulletins to reflect that. You certainly won’t get an informed and educated public raring to take part in keeping democracy alive with this as the news standard. Thank God for the interweb…
Ratings will go through the roof with each those pulling at least 5 viewers. TVNZ is a woke fest now with TV1 the new maori channel minus the incessant ongoing guitar duos, catering to the lower of lowest common denominator. ” We need to tell New Zealand’s stories” says Jacinda. More like “we want to put you all to sleep with boredom”. Onto Netflix!
The kraut went wild. “We need to tell New Zealand’s stories “. Alright. Let’s do this.
Coincidentally I bought Tony Simpson, “ The Sugarbag Years” and Dan Davin’s “ The Gorse Blooms Pale “ at the Sallies this morning. Mulgan’s “ Man Alone “ I’ve often thought vies with Gee’s “ Plumb” as the great New Zealand novel. I used to gift the latter to overseas visitors, but if any of the abysmally historically ignorant Greens and Labourites have read any of them, then I’m Mary Poppins.
Dan Davis was run out of Invercargill. I knew the man who tossed him out of a Saturday night dance because he was a Marist boy. He went on to become an Oxford literary legend. Ardern herself said that she doesn’t read books, but she was going to read one last Christmas.
Still, if they ( whoever the hell “ they” are) think we need to tell New Zealand’s stories, then they should stop obliterating our culture and heritage pronto. They look at could starting with John A Lee’s “ Children of the Poor “. and show us how child povidy blights and impacts and spurred one man to act for the common good, the way that good politicians do. Bring it on.
“Onto Netflix ! “. What ? Harry and Meghan talk about their deprived lives ? Ha ha. Daddy cut off the money? I hate my bro and my wife hates Catherine ? Growing carrots in Tuatapere would have to be more riveting, or how to bluff an oyster.
netflix try babylon berlin would make a good start for xenophobic little NZers holly and work your way up, course it’s subtitled so with the usual rightard reading skills it might pose a bit of a problem.
Would prefer the programming proposed OR you could cater to the braindead, the never- move -a- braincell lot.
The Ridges, Shitland Street, The Block, Real Housewives, BBQing, Kardashians….
“Lydia Bradey (ONZM), the first woman to summit Mt Everest without oxygen”
Jennifer Lawrence did it first.
I’m not looking forward to anything from Bryan Bruce after his dishonest hit jobs on David Bain and Arthur Thomas and others, including his insipid look into Peter Ellis and the Christchurch Creche case. In respect to the first two one suspects that he was working for the Police’s PR dept.
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