Does it explain why Sky News Australia is absolutely bat shit insane compared to Sky UK?
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jonbob loves you, Wed 7 Aug 2024, 0:13,
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Sky news UK has, as they say, been on a journey.
It used to be fairly right wing, occasionally reactionary, this is definitely not the case any more. But the most remarkable change has been Kay batshit Burley. She used to be, even by my standards, rabid in her right wing rants. I found some of her interviews in particular unhinged and unreasonable. Now she’s gone completely the other way politically. It’s all just performative I guess, but in both roles she always comes over as an utter cunt.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Wed 7 Aug 2024, 0:39,
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They do whatever the shareholders want them to do.
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Dave Trouser ; the people's choice - 75% agree, Wed 7 Aug 2024, 17:41,
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Not so much the shareholders as the advertisers.
The latter have way, way more power than former in commercial tv.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Wed 7 Aug 2024, 19:34,
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you're not wrong there
it occasionally covers it, though usually only when it has some impact on a wider story as it has tiny audiences, about 20,000 viewers for their top rating show.
though it does like to end on a lighter note after a heavier piece, and sky-after-dark provides plenty of fodder for that in a fish/barrel sort of way
I should add that sky news Australia is still owned by murdoch's news corp, while sky UK got bought out by Comcast in 2018, which accounts for much of the editorial divergence
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 7 Aug 2024, 0:41,
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So Sky News Aus. is like GBeebies?
That would explain that Douglas Murray cunt.
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jonbob loves you, Wed 7 Aug 2024, 1:29,
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yep, though they have a whole late night line-up, some of whom are even worse
Rowan Dean, who also edits the Spectator Australia (hi prufrock), is particularly unhinged. They fired his co-presenter after calling chinese "slanty-eyed yellow-skinned" which apparently was even too much for Sky, but Dean himself is a litany of almost comical misogyny, race-baiting and whatever alt-right bullshit is flavour of the week
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 7 Aug 2024, 2:27,
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Do you guys still refer to the Pakistan cricket team as 'the Pakis'?
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On cricket ads on telly, not since the mid 80s
Amongst older Aussie cricket fans, sure
Rather than repeat old points b3ta.com/links/1599320
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 7 Aug 2024, 23:09,
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www.oxfam.org.uk/publications/changing-attitudes-racism-in-britain-2012-22/
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 8 Aug 2024, 11:54,
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www.imdb.com/title/tt0216417/
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Thu 8 Aug 2024, 18:26,
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