With 60% of our newsrooms now female, the lens of woke identity seems to be all that matters. Today’s latest example however takes that lens of woke identity and has instead manufactured our first ‘Purity of Identity’ journalism. TDB Recommends NewzEngine.comWhich is deeply problematic because a critical analysis of Carmel Sepuloni’s time as Social Welfare Minister highlights how shallow The Spinoff, Stuff and NZ Heralds ‘journalism’ is. There are more white children in poverty than Māori children and that might be difficult to visualise because the focus is almost exclusively on Māori children. Identity politics journalism is seen as activism first, journalism second and it is missing the far larger questions and context, and by doing so divides rather than builds.

Source: The Guardian April 18, 2023 22:29 UTC