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This is a normal post Does it explain why Sky News Australia is absolutely bat shit insane compared to Sky UK?

(I helped save b3ta! jonbob loves you, Wed 7 Aug 2024, 0:13, , Reply)
This is a normal post 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.
 (I helped save b3ta! Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Wed 7 Aug 2024, 0:39, , Reply)
This is a normal post They do whatever the shareholders want them to do.

(I helped save b3ta! Dave Trouser ; the people's choice - 75% agree, Wed 7 Aug 2024, 17:41, , Reply)
This is a normal post Not so much the shareholders as the advertisers.
The latter have way, way more power than former in commercial tv.
 (I helped save b3ta! Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Wed 7 Aug 2024, 19:34, , Reply)
This is a normal post 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
 (I helped save b3ta! cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 7 Aug 2024, 0:41, , Reply)
This is a normal post So Sky News Aus. is like GBeebies?
That would explain that Douglas Murray cunt.
 (I helped save b3ta! jonbob loves you, Wed 7 Aug 2024, 1:29, , Reply)
This is a normal post 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
 (I helped save b3ta! cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 7 Aug 2024, 2:27, , Reply)
This is a normal post Do you guys still refer to the Pakistan cricket team as 'the Pakis'?

(beepeedee 'My stage name is DJ Teargas', Wed 7 Aug 2024, 17:59, , Reply)
This is a normal post Must just be me then.

(beepeedee 'My stage name is DJ Teargas', Wed 7 Aug 2024, 18:06, , Reply)
This is a normal post 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
 (I helped save b3ta! cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 7 Aug 2024, 23:09, , Reply)
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www.oxfam.org.uk/publications/changing-attitudes-racism-in-britain-2012-22/
 (I helped save b3ta! cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 8 Aug 2024, 11:54, , Reply)
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www.imdb.com/title/tt0216417/
 (I helped save b3ta! Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Thu 8 Aug 2024, 18:26, , Reply)