The ABC’s Paul Barry appears to have a “double-standard” when it comes to defending reporting by the national broadcaster, according to Sky News Australia Digital Editor Houghtontweets.
The ABC’s Paul Barry appears to have a “double-standard” when it comes to defending reporting by the national broadcaster, according to Sky News Australia Digital Editor Jack Houghton. The Australian’s Sharri Markson has been leading the world with her coverage of the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mr Houghton said that Barry had been on a taxpayer funded “crusade” to discredit Markson’s work, mainly her reports which mention the theory that the virus originated at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. “While the ABC may be happy to spend hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars defending the publication of unprovable allegations, it appears to have a double-standard when it comes to actually important investigative journalism,” Mr Houghton said.
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