NSW police are lining up Spotlight’s Steve Jackson to help run the force’s media apparatus.
It was all but inevitable that the ex-News Corp and NRL spinner would shoulder the blame for Webb and the police force’s recent unforced gaffes and errors around briefing the media and public on crimes. Still, that leaves a vacancy at one of the most influential PR roles in the state. NSW police media controls the drip-feed of information to news outlets and their police beat reporters.Kerry Stokesfrom its nomination for Scoop of the Year at last year’s journo awards.
It’s done little to stop Jackson’s career progression. He’d be stepping in after Deegan oversaw a series of comms bungles at the coppers. Last year, NSW police were accused of “media manipulation” by our sister paper thefor the “ham fisted” attempt to spin the taser killing of a 95-year-old aged care resident.
Then last month there was Webb’s astounding response to criticism around the handling of the double homicide of a Sydney gay couple, in which she quotedLast week, Instagram video circulated on social media showing Lehrmann around a table, alongside a friend who was chopping up white powder on a plate. The video was filmed at the Sydney northern beaches home where Lehrmann currently resides, paid for by the Seven network, organised by the man who might soon run the police media apparatus.
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