Once I defended John Campbell’s journalism on TVNZ as ‘analysis’ and not ‘opinion’, every chump with a keyboard at any mainstream NZ media organisation immediately started bylining everything ‘Analysis’.
You are welcome NZ.
John Campbell is stepping in for Jack Tame and reminded everyone just how powerful Public Broadcasting can be.
John’s intelligence and intellectual curiosity is on top of decades as a journalist so when he asks questions of social policy it comes from a a place of true insight and oversight.
He is the perfect person to examine this terrible report into Abuse in State care.
In NZ we have angry Māori and Pacific youth causing crime in shops staffed by exploited migrant Indian and Chinese workers while the white middle class suburbs gasp in fear their local got hit in a ram raid.
It’s the suburbs rarely impacted by crime who fear it most and scream ‘something must be done’.
The mainstream media love crime stories because viewers react emotionally, that emotion has been manipulated by tough on crime politicians into ever increasing draconian counterproductive social policy.
The tragedy of how we’ve collectively allowed this get tough on crime mind set to infect justice, healing and redemption should shame us.
200 000 kids, we tortured them, sexually abused them and physically mistreated them.
80-90% of gang members were abused in state care.
Allow the magnitude of that mutilated social policy sink in.
Our ignorance at the interconnected nature of trauma has allowed us to have our anger to be manipulated into political vengeance that only serves to make things worse.
We are an emotionally stunted people, fixated on cow udders, rugby and hiding domestic violence, having the true obscenity of our ignorance exposed is a shell shocking moment, so cuddle that settler cracker get tough on crime redneck in your whanau because suddenly seeing the enormity of their shallow cultural illiteracy must be very hard for them.
Military boot camps don’t work, banning gang patches won’t work, 3 strikes won’t work.
Our focus must move away from making a guilty person suffer to healing them and giving them the opportunity of redemption.
The punishment is the imprisonment of their liberty, it isn’t to then make them suffer while imprisoned.
We are not focused on healing the victim or the perpetrator, we are only funding the suffering and calling that justice.
Our structural poverty and lack of community infrastructure to cope with that poverty is our wound that never heals.
This report into State Care changes everything.
John highlights that 34% of children are placed in Oranga Tamariki care without the full report into their whanau.
That is a staggering amount just as is the news that hundreds of social providers giving 24/7 parent support are all on the chopping block right now as this Government look to fund savings for their $2.9billion tax break for the richest landlords.
It is appalling that the system is so underfunded and weak that we then blame them for being abused!
The manner in which Social Investment will be used will see immediate uplifts as soon as the Big Data algorithm tell them to do it.
We will perpetuate the same loop of abuse.
The smiley face generated by OT calmly reassures all the providers about to be cut they won’t really be cut.
But they will.
I take nothing away from Jack Tame and his incisive journalism, but John Campbell on the show today reminded us all what a 7pm Current Affairs show on TVNZ should be.
Dump Seven Sharp, bring back John Campbell!
The government can coherse men into going to war but not woman yet we give woman equal vote and equal say. The crouch of it is that woman do not have the same capacity as men to monopolise violence yet woman are a larger voting block than men and are effectively the ones who can’t fight, get to coherse all men into going to war.
Ahhh Sam the old conundrum, women want equality in everything (and fair enough) but not when it comes to a draft, go figure.
My mother would kick your feeble little balls right up your arse hole
Real journalism unlike that right wing schmooze Hosking who is a comedian.
Most popular broadcaster in New Zealand by a wide margin.
Popularity has nothing to do with the quality of journalism.
At least he wasn’t crying this time.
Small mercies.
meh
Booty of victory, some Righties wanted him and political reporter Byron, with his smirk and bad tie knot, gone.
You make a good case for the 7 pm show. The vile Hosking replaced by Lefties life-styling — much like the Ardern govt. If the idiot right-winger, half off his head on drink, who founded the 7 pm show could be interrogative, why not John, who remembers.
Not Byron, Benedict Collins. Now, the twerp from the 90s?
Yes it would be great to have some real journalism/current affairs at 7.00 rather than the TV version of Women’s Day that we are subjected to at the momen.t
The TV version of Womens Day. Like it! What a great analogy.
The TV version of Womens Day. Like it! What a great analogy.
Eh! tax relief you, you, forth birthed mother, how your tax relief
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