The Liberal Agenda: Latest NZ on Air funding round reads like a woke parody

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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