The ABC stalwart’s comments at the Sydney Writers’ Festival kicked off a culture-war meltdown. In monetary terms it probably wasn’t worth the hassle.
offhand comments at the Sydney Writers’ Festival in May about a racist Australia and her ripe remarks about Opposition Leadertriggered a culture-war firestorm, a limp but nevertheless embarrassing rebuke from ABC management that prompted yet another culture-war firestorm, which led in turn to plenty of mouth-frothing moments from Liberal Senators grandstanding in estimates, prompting yet another … OK, you get the picture.Well, in terms of cold, hard cash – definitely not.
Now, we don’t want to be making assumptions about anybody’s ethnic background, so we did check and were assured that Ward’s presence is because of her stint as minister for multicultural affairs during the COVID-19 pandemic, rather than some secret Italian lineage.It is not just our athletes who are drawing attention to themselves these Olympic Games. Some of our Aussie broadcasters are lighting up the internet – and not always for the right reasons.
Alas, when the time came to call the big race, Diffey botched his moment. Not only did he name the wrong winner, he failed to mention at all the real winner, US track startold us Diffey declared: “Jamaica’s gonna do it, Kishane Thompson is a gold medallist, on debut.” Sure, mistakes happen, but NBC attracted an extra level of attention by editing the post-race commentary together with the race call to make Diffey’s lapse seem less than it was during replays. both chose to be more equivocal about the result, until Lyles’ victory was confirmed about 30 seconds later., always seemed less successful here than in the US, where the publication was championed by “anti-woke” types and heralded as a vanguard of the “intellectual dark web” .
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