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Showing posts with label New Zealand journalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Zealand journalism. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Graham Adams: Don’t ask us — we just work here


One of the most depressing features of journalism in New Zealand is that if you want to follow simmering debates of national interest you often have to look somewhere else than the mainstream media.

If you want to follow the mātauranga Māori debate closely, for instance, the most consistent coverage has been provided by Jerry Coyne, an emeritus professor of ecology and evolution from the University of Chicago, who has written at least a dozen lengthy posts on the topic over the past year on his blog Why Evolution Is True.