Sky News Contributor Prue MacSween says the ABC would not last two minutes in a “commercial newsroom” because they are “totally agenda-driven”.
“This mob wouldn’t last two minutes in a commercial newsroom … it is beyond belief,” Ms MacSween told Sky News host Rita Panahi.
“This journalist who didn’t even attend the meeting, who is an Indigenous person, who went there with an agenda, and we know the ABC is totally agenda-driven. “When it comes to either making sure they stereotype white people as racists and the blacks as victims, we’re sick of it.”
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