Sky News host Chris Kenny says the “hypocrisy is astounding” as green-left journalists are in favour of onerous lockdown laws and authoritarian controls but not when it comes to “the radical activists who want to march in the streets”.
Over the weekend thousands of people attended Black Lives Matter protests in Australian capital cities despite social distancing bans being largely still implemented and businesses heavily impacted by the government-imposed restrictions. Mr Kenny said the protests on the weekend “really made a lot of us very angry”. “After months of people's lives being turned upside down, we weren't very happy to see activists and agitators given a leave pass as they rallied across the nation”.
Mr Kenny said one has to just simply “flick on to the Insiders” ABC program to observe “how the media/political class just lives on another planet”. “The ABC commentators sympathise with the protesters, not the mainstream,” he said. “No sense of indignation, no sense of double standards, no sense of discrimination against those whose jobs and activities have been shut down, just solidarity with the political agitators”.
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