If you think Miranda Devine’s expose in the Sunday Telegraph about the play group cultural apartheid is just a one off or an outlier, think again.
There is a disturbing pattern developing and it must be crash tackled and sent packing.
We maybe a tolerant lot but we’re not mugs. Or are we?
“…When Alex Joske was elected late last year to the board of ANU student newspaper Woroni, he was proud and excited about how as news editor he would transform its coverage to make it more professional and relevant to the students who ultimately paid for it.
Joske, a hard-news aficionado who had been a reporter on the paper covering stories such as Chinese government influence on campus, felt he could steer Woroni towards solid news-breaking and beyond what he saw as the editorial board’s preoccupation with gender politics, ethnicity, the nuances of being gay, and tips from its sex correspondent.
It all ended in tears last month when Joske decided he had no allies on the paper and was beating his head against a brick wall in trying to promote professional journalism. The last straw for Joske, who is half-Chinese, was when the editorial board commissioned a special issue to be written and edited only by “ethnocultural self-identifying students”, excluding any involvement of students who were white Anglo-Celts…”
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/ideology-ousts-news-editor-at-anu-paper/news-story/a4b66914ef30e963d5954c0cc415d609u think the Miranda Devine’s expose in the Sunday Telegraph about the play group cultural apartheid is just a one off or an outlier, think again.
There is a disturbing pattern developing and it must be crash tackled and sent packin. We maybe a tolerant lot but we’re not mugs. Or are we?
“…When Alex Joske was elected late last year to the board of ANU student newspaper Woroni, he was proud and excited about how as news editor he would transform its coverage to make it more professional and relevant to the students who ultimately paid for it.
Joske, a hard-news aficionado who had been a reporter on the paper covering stories such as Chinese government influence on campus, felt he could steer Woroni towards solid news-breaking and beyond what he saw as the editorial board’s preoccupation with gender politics, ethnicity, the nuances of being gay, and tips from its sex correspondent.
It all ended in tears last month when Joske decided he had no allies on the paper and was beating his head against a brick wall in trying to promote professional journalism. The last straw for Joske, who is half-Chinese, was when the editorial board commissioned a special issue to be written and edited only by “ethnocultural self-identifying students”, excluding any involvement of students who were white Anglo-Celts…” Ideology ousts news editor at ANU paper