Sadly ABC no longer balanced. Proof was the saga. A four corners program with some spine could have uncovered what really went on. But no, instead they outsource the Hal Hunter story to Fairfax. They can gagf.
Sky News interviewing Blair Cottrell about immigration policy today. They introduced him as an ‘activist’. What he is is a neo-Nazi, in the most literal sense possible. He believes every classroom should have a picture of Hitler in it, and Mein Kampf should be handed out to schoolkids for free. He’s been convicted of arson, burglary, and breaching intervention orders and has spent time in prison for those offences.
Sky News’ viewership is tiny, but it’ll be going out to 10 million households with WIN pretty soon.
The Overton window is moving so fast that the windowcleaners are gonna get whiplash.
“We’re sorry we got called out on our bullshit. We will issue an uninformative statement of vague contrition and then pretend this never happened, making no effort to explain the prevailing culture at Sky that has now progressed from mere dog-whistling to actually deliberately seeking out comment from full-fledged Nazis. Nobody at the station will be sacked or disciplined because the only thing they did wrong was to hire a Nazi who’s a bit too obvious about it. We will perform a rigorous internal review, the results of which I will ensure report exactly what i want them to, but it doesn’t matter because they won’t be made public or even read. In the meantime, stay tuned for The Rowan Dean And Andrew Bolt Show, who will make exactly the same arguments that Blair Cottrell did but it’s ok because nobody’s actually caught them jiggling their uglies to Hitler’s photo - yet - and by the way if you criticise them for being racist then it’s obvious evidence that the intolerant left is imposing fascist restrictions on free speech upon all decent Australians.”