PLEASE DONATE NOW! It covers the rise of opinion in place of straight news reporting and the value of bringing a sceptical mindset to politics and policy, instead of ideological certainty. In other words, the Trump collusion beat-up flopped, so the NYT shifted to smearing Trump on other fronts, with the editor needing from reporters a further line of attack. The ABC of course is happy to attack Falun Gong, as the movement is associated with The Epoch Times, one of the few reliable media agencies left (because it isnt left) when it comes to reporting events in China. She has covered this ground numerous times before, shaming those who attack her and sharing the sexualised abuse she receives. Ive got some news to share, she told her fans in a video posted to Instagram. It contains news and opinion from Australia and around the world. All times AEDT (GMT +11). Three-and-a-half years ago, Shravan Nagesh relocatedto Australia looking for better prospects and opportunities. But given she wants to spend evenings at home with her two boys, 10 and 8, and she would have to live in Canberra, it seems unlikely. [iv] ABC News accepts thatthe 14 March segmentwas in error by stating thatMr Trumpcalled the coronavirus outbreak a hoax; it does appear that he was referring to thecriticisms by the Democratic Party of the Federal Governments handling of the coronavirus. However, are female journalists frequently bullied on social media in particular and are the perpetrators actually representative of the Left? Her question, again, is not a question but a stump speech. ft. home is a 3 bed, 3.0 bath property. Thats why it caught me by surprise[27], Sales was married to Phil Willis and they have two sons. As Sales suggested,Let's not duck the common thread here' only it was Right, not Left-leaning Twitter users, plus many, many assorted politicians and journalists who openly targeted these progressive women. We will have to accept that many worthy programs currently aired by the Collective will of necessity migrate to commercial channels, and be funded at least in part by paid advertising. Year on year, Australian Story continues to deliver, and I think having Leigh at the helm of that is only going to strengthen that for us.. In 2019, she was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for her services to broadcast journalism. In a thread, the reporter for The Australian wrote that she had received death threats. Democrat Dynasty. [iii] Paul Homewood discusses the heat data further here. [vi] Fauci did not get the sense that President Trump was distorting anything about the coronavirus. Perhaps Ill write another diatribe on that topic! True. I am going to be, next year, anchoring the Australian Story program for the ABC. Re: Leigh Sales. But some armchair critics on Twitter repeatedly accuse her of going soft on conservatives and too hard on Labor. Stan Grant and Virginia Trioli have also been named in the mix. Its really exciting, we love Leigh. He's written a book capturing the experience titled August in Kabul. Find out more about our policy and your choices, including how to opt-out. Please take heart! I mostly watch prerecorded shows and zap through the ads, and the process is virtually the same whether I am watching the commercial channels or the ABC the only difference is that the Collectives ads are for itself rather than goods or services produced by dreaded capitalists. Uhlmann eventually returned to being political editor while Sales hosted alone and a new executive producer, Sally Neighbour, was brought on at the end of 2012. In the report attached, it was described as a fiery interview- what nonsense! But she is a formidable interviewer and could also be a good fit. But the stuff Lisa was subjected to was next level. His conversations with the President, Fauci has said, were always straightforward.. In addition, she reported on the 2000 Summer Olympics. The way I manage it is by throwing money at the problem and getting people to help me, Sales told The CEO Magazine . Shes new to television, but viewers seem to love political editor Laura Tingle. SALES TO SANDERS: I notice youre not addressing the central premise of my question which is how somebody like Donald Trump squares with the values you espouse? Surprise favourite to replace Leigh Sales, Murderers: Vegans go troppo at cafe menu, Channel Ten in chaos as major star leaves. Whether it's shielding oneself from the vile comments of online trolls or finding the sweet work-life balance, the 7.30 anchor explains the reality of being a woman in the media. If youre arguing a policy or position that doesnt stand up to any rigour, well, how is it even worth holding that position? Of course, there are right-wing attacks too but the most ferocious campaigns are reserved for any journalist who questions, in even the most anodyne manner, the policies or public statements of Labor politicians, particularly the Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese, the Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews, the Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and the West Australian Premier Mark McGowan., As I sometimes do to keep a spotlight on this, I just spent a few minutes collecting a fraction of the sexualised abuse I get every time I interview a Prime Minister - female politicians, journalists, public figures get this non-stop. In the media? No one is perfect. Chief political correspondent Laura Tingle reports. A second edition was published in 2017, with an additional chapter noting the Trump presidency and the rise of fake news. Enjoyed this speech? She's great cleavage is our leigh sales and 'other' [vixen] -even though few weeks ago she disabused one of her viewers with some diatribe about taking craps at th end of one of her lateline shows - [ a certain individual being stalked practically to death by . Have watched her in awe as she's steered @abc730 through five PMs, personal challenges, public health crises, you name it. I did enjoy it. 22 were here. Despite more women appearing in senior media roles, gender diversity continues to be a significant hurdle to overcome. Fortunately many of us can now rely on the internet for our music, current affairs and news. Now in a recent interview with ABC,. [vi] Trump also made numerous statements emphasising the virulency of the virus. A late Friday night thread on Twitter abuse and Victorias COVID-19 crisis, for those who are interested #springst . But back to Sanders, whom Sales quizzed about Trumps notorious pussy-grabbing comment of 2005, but she didnt put questions to Hillary along similar lines. A major change to how people use TikTok is to be rolled out in the coming weeks and it could affected how millions use the social media site. Sales might be astounded by Trumps statement, I dont think the science knows, actually but any honest scientist would give Trump five stars. Many of us on the conservative side of politics, known in ABC newspeak as far right extremists, have for a long time been concerned about ABC bias. A great opening for someone who can get it together there. Sales using Sanders Christian faith as a stick to beat her with is disgusting. Just ask the ABC executives who stumbled momentarily when they replaced the towering figure of Kerry OBrien with not one, but two, journalists in 2010. While she wasnt targeted by the Murdoch press like some other ABC presenters, she was relentlessly trolled on Twitter. The thing that would force me out of my current job is not the lack of support in the workplace because there is a lot but the inability to juggle my home responsibilities.. Generally, the people Im interviewing act the same with me as they would a man., For me, its important to show the actual work is smart and thoughtful and heavily prepared and that I know my stuff so Im not just a pretty face, Leigh Sales. Apr 1996 - Oct 200711 years 7 months. Sales hinted at the toll the coronavirus pandemic had taken on her young family, saying her sons James and Daniel had only ever known their mum at work four nights a week. Speaking toMediaweek,ABCacting director of entertainment and specialist Jennifer Collins said Sales is a perfect fit for Australian Story. The following was sent to the ABC management Sat Apr 04, 2009 12:05 am. With big decisions looming on Australia's nuclear-powered submarine program, Opposition leader Peter Dutton caused controversy by declaring we should be choosing the US not the UK as the basis for a nuclear powered fleet. In 2013 he was part of a gang of eight including Democrat senators who pursued soft policies on illegal immigrants, and in 2016 he joined Democrats in calling for the Russia-collusion inquiry into Trump. The appointment of an albeit female Human Rights Commissioner who opposes affirmative consent is up there as well; as is the bullying of Queensland Labor Premier Anastacia Palaszczuk by the IOC President on international television. [iii] Where sites have stayed obstinately rural, temperatures have shown much less rise than 1degC. These womenwere maliciously targetted by those who may be comfortably characterised as Right-wing and on an array of platforms about which their abusers were not particularly discerning, including Twitter,but also in mainstream publications, and on national radio and television. He has pledged to vote for Biden in November and is campaigning hard against Trump. Get exclusive deals, discounts, news and more made just for you. Support independent journalism Subscribeto IA. The platform certainly hasnt intervened to date. Conservative British MP Simon Fell rejectsclaims by Opposition Leader Peter Dutton that the UK does not have capacity to build a new class of nuclear-powered submarine for Australia under the AUKUS program. It is independent of the work they do for other media outlets and is an opportunity for them to talk about books, movies, television, the media and culture. The Eyre highway is not. I was prompted to write this article after seeing Leah Sales deranged hatchet job on Sarah Huckabee Sanders, without doubt one of the nicest people associated with the Trump presidency. We are seeing women say that they have had enough. Indeed, the problem is men in senior positions are rarely if ever asked the same question. Now lets get specific. What is it with the ABC Trump hating? Ferguson hosted while Sales was on maternity leave, and has established herself as a tough political interviewer. 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Second of all, as the Americans say, Sales makes a fool of herself with her climate assumptions. I've never seen her wobble. They were not hounded only on social media. If you can afford a donation, it will help Speakola survive and prosper. There is, in fact, as we have reported in this publication, a very significant body of evidence to suggest that this is the case. Few people truly knew what the Queen was like behind closed doors, but Australian-born Samantha Cohen had unique insight. The accomplished journalist and long-time 7.30 host announced last month that she would be handing the reins over to a new presenter once the federal election had passed. Subscribe Author. National security, the prime minister told us this week, can have many faces, writes Laura Tingle. Also, follow IA on Twitter @independentaus and on Facebook HERE, and in the new IA subscriber-only Facebook page HERE. Lisa has deactivated her account because she was on the receiving end of some truly vile & distressing personal attacks, Rowland wrote on Twitter. [17][18][19][20], In November 2014, Sales started a podcast with Annabel Crabb called Chat 10 Looks 3. All rights reserved. That she generally gives conservative politicians an amiable armchair ride, while ferociously grilling Labor and Greens MPs. Her third book, Any Ordinary Day, was published in October 2018. [28] Self-proclaimed chatters or chatterati have formed a Chat 10 Looks 3 community on social media platforms[29] built around the same tenets as the podcast - friendship, kindness, and an agreement to not discuss politics. Crazy truth about TikTok threatens Netflix, In an article published on Tuesday morning, Victorian political reporter Rachel Baxendale being trolled. It didnt occur to Sales that WaPo, with The New York Times, has proudly thrown objectivity overboard to help Biden oust Trump. pic.twitter.com/RwPpWxz62w, Last year, in a piece for ABC Online, she wrote: Anyone who can stomach wading into mentions of @leighsales will find that virtually hourly, I am abused for doing my job, with a stream of tweets goading me to quit, demanding the ABC sack me, telling me Im useless, stupid, biased and incompetent.. Listen to people that you disagree with. It merely involved an ABC tax-paid reporter getting up on her soapbox, to the applause of her in-house coterie. Leigh Sales started her final day as host of 7.30 after a 12-year-stint by posting a video outside a convenience store, dressed in trackies and clutching a donut and a 7-Eleven coffee. This need for change is true for an even-handed broadcaster abiding by its founding charter, let alone an organisation now lurching leftwards and antithetical to our countrys history, values and interests. Hence, the minute I get into a hire car in the UK, on goes Classic FM, the profitable radio station that brings together music fanciers like me, playing shorter excerpts of the well-known favorites to charm the day and ease the troubled mind. When I look at the filth dished up about Stan Grant, one of the smartest, most decent men I know, it is clearly a form of racial vilification. The warmist scientists never predicted the warming hiatus after 2000, and they might (or might not) be wrong again. I guess its a given on TV that youre going to be made up, Sales says. Covered in splashes of blueberry yoghurt, Sales told the audience If everyone else is alright, Im quite happy to go on. Nationwide News Pty Ltd 2023. Stuart Robert said he was required to toe the government line because of the rules of Cabinet solidarity. Of course, there are right-wing attacks too but the most ferocious campaigns are reserved for any journalist who questions, in even the most anodyne manner, the policies or public statements of Labor politicians, particularly the Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese, the Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews, the Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and the West Australian Premier Mark McGowan. Uncritical acceptance and promotion of Anthropocentric Global Warming pseudoscience is now routine in virtually every facet of their programming, from kids drama to gardening, science reporting and of course the weather. And for Australians, maybe people are concerned he seems erratic, and is hesomething we can rely on. Leigh is turning 50 years old in ; she was born on May 10, 1973. I feel like Im constantly asking myself this question did something change in this country? Did something change, that the standard for behaviour now is not I have to do the right thing or I have to do what I promised I said I would do, but instead how much can I get away with?I think that, from what I hear people say on 7.30 Australians are sick of this kind of situation.Theyre sick of banks gouging their accounts with fees and charges while somehow missing large scale money laundering, thats funnelling millions of dollars overseas to terrorism or child exploitation.Theyre sick of highly profitable nursing homes taking money from families, and then neglecting or abusing mum or dad.Theyre sick of financial advisors who promise to take peoples life savings and help them pay for their retirement, knowing the entire time that theyre fleecing them.I think the unemployed, students, pensioners were pretty sick of being harassed by a powerful government department to repay debt that they never actually even owed in the first place.People are tired of private health insurance constantly upping fees, then you go to a specialist and they go oh sorry its not covered by private health.Theyre sick of telecommunications companies that promised the world when you sign up for the Internet, and then when youre having a problem with it and it wont work, they wont pick up their phone to answer your call in any kind of timely fashion.Theyre sick of rich multinational companies underpaying their workers and then not even having the common courtesy to ring people when those workers are killed on the job.Theyre sick of priests abusing children in their care, or scoutmasters. From 2008 to 2010, Sales was a co-host of the ABC's Lateline, a late-night national current affairs show with a heavy emphasis on federal politics and international affairs. Theres an inbuilt assumption and bias to believe women are the ones doing that and we still have these old-fashioned attitudes that youve got to be keeping a nice house. [25] The podcast has spawned livestream shows in Australian capital cities[26] and a book titled Well Hello[27] published in September 2021. A similar case can be made for abolition of the SBS, the Special Broadcasting Service aka Soccer Before Sex. Brilliant rod.stuart and deric Davidson. The sparce population of what is now called, rather redundantly, rural and regional Australia meant it would not be a commercial proposition for private enterprise, and thus needed government ownership and subsidy. Sales first question to Sanders was: Can Donald Trump tell the difference the truth and a lie? The basis for Sales insult was that the Washington Post claims to have fact-checked presidential statements and found some 20,000 alleged lies by the President. Jason Om caught up with Jessica Stern for 7.30. If anything, they are buoyed by Millar de-activating her account. The second factor is that trolls often target big news events because theres already community traction and concern around these events or issues, and perpetrators are more likely to get attention this way. Copyright 2023 The New Daily. Flashback 2013: Leigh Salesperson interviews Dr Craig Emerson on ABC $7.30 After publishing an opinion piece on social media bullying, Leigh Sales has come under criticism over her own past attacks on political figures. After its bold move on super yesterday, the Albanese government is putting the finishing touches to promised measures to protect public integrity. The news and current affairs department of Auntie however, must not be included in this sale. Perhaps ABC management should just rid themselves of Ms Sales! I am also a huge admirer of the original executive producer, Deborah Fleming, and the original presenter, the late Caroline Jones. Instead he found disillusionment and disappointment. She has been reporting from the States since her posting to China was aborted when she couldnt get a visa. Achieving nationwide coverage was difficult with the technology then available. Ms Sales performance was not completely worthless but can always be used as an illustration of poor interview style and further illustration of ABC Anti-Trump bias. A Sydney business owner was called a murderer and rapist when she put bacon rolls back on the menu of her previously vegan cafe. One has to wonder why Sarah Huckabee agreed to do this interview at all. Now what may be called The New ABC has certainly been captured by an urban elite the inner city latte Left alienating not only rural Australia but also the vast majority of city dwellers whose taxes pay for it. Yours Sincerely. It is overwhelmingly left-leaning Twitter users who are targeting ABC journalists for abuse. As a woman considering misogyny today, what does not immediately spring to mind, is the Lefts treatment, as opposed to the Right's treatment, on social media in particular, of female journalists as opposed to their male counterparts or other women. 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Sales says interviewing Paul McCartney and getting a hug from him was one of the best days of my life, and viewers certainly shared in her joy. Thats what happens when Sales and her ilk isolate in their Trump-derangement cocoon. This service may include material from Agence France-Presse (AFP), APTN, Reuters, AAP, CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced. I am no longer prepared to see my tax dollars supporting such disgusting evil. Menu 119,408 views. She started her modelling career at early age of 12 for various magazines and catalogs. She suggested Gillard was overstating her case after the then Prime Minister said,Under an Abbott government, womens voices would be banished from political life a prediction that has certainly been upheld at every turn by the Abbott and Morrison regimes, if not quite to the same degree by the Turnbull Government. Since then, Sales has held several prominent roles with the ABC and was New South Wales political reporter covering the 1999 and 2007 state elections. Monster you become: Alex Murdaugh sentenced for killing wife and son, Chris Rock is ready to talk about Will Smiths infamous Oscars slap, Researchers confirm that living with chronic pain brings a higher risk of dementia, Toyota accused of greenwashing in Greenpeace complaint to ACCC, Doing it tough: Financial pain at three-year high as cost of living, mortgage rates squeeze families, Hollywood mourns gruff, tough and troubled action star Tom Sizemore, dead at 61, Hong Kong court convicts dissident trio for marking date of Tiananmen massacre, King Charles sacred coronation oil blessed in Jerusalem, Police charge IT worker with $90k Maritime Museum ripoff, NSW Labor promises never to privatise new Harbour tunnel. When I and many like me stop watching, because I can no longer stomach their full-on PC virtue-signalling aboriginal schtick and climate alarmism we can hope that the lower ratings for the show will cause them to mend their ways. Ace RV Rentals & Sales offers motorhomes and travel trailers at great rates throughout Virginia, Maryland,. What may be called The Old ABC was created when wireless was in its infancy. Co-host Chat 10 Looks 3 with @annabelcrabb. Sales has said a community has sprung up around (the podcast) who shares these in-jokes and language and interests. A buyback scheme that was supposed to move NSW Northern Rivers residents out of extreme flood danger has barely begun a year after the floods, with the first offers made only in the past few days. Leigh Sales speaks about women in the media at Breakthrough in Melbourne. Thank you. Powell endorsed Barack Obamas presidential bids in 2008 and 2012 and boasted of voting for Hillary Clinton in 2016. One of the countrys most respected journalists, the ABCs Leigh Sales, is putting on notice not only anonymous trolls and bullies who frequent Twitter but the very platform itself. [ Learn more ]. Brilliant rod.stuart and deric davidson! SALES: Because of your activism, youve attracted plenty of controversy. Indeed, is it only female journalistswho experience such bullying? [3] She received a bachelor of journalism from the Queensland University of Technology and Master of International Relations from Deakin University. When I remember, Ive been saving sexualised social media abuse to show you what all women in the public eye get constantly, whether you are Peta Credlin, Julia Gillard or anyone in between. We in the mainstream media have for years run cover for you over Reades claims but heres what Wikipedia reports: In a March 25, 2020, interview withKatie Halper, Reade alleged that Biden had pushed her against a wall, kissed her, put his hand under her skirt, penetrated her with his fingers, and asked, Do you want to go somewhere else?[12][36]Reade toldNational Public Radio(NPR) for an April 19 article, His hands went underneath my clothing and he was touching me in my private areas and without my consent.[36]Reade toldThe Intercepther impression was that Biden believed he had consent and was surprised when she rejected him. She has consistently clarified that she should have referred to some rather than countless FBI officials. In the following days, insiders told The Australians Media Diary that the challenges of juggling work and parenting duties might have indeed played a role in the shock move. Who holds the levers of power, mostly, in this country? Russell Yardley FAICD Professional Non-executive. Source: ABC Media Centre. It is a matter for a commercial entity like Twitter to ask itself and my understanding is that it is whether the treatment of journalists, in particular female journalists, on its platform is acceptable, she wrote. That the ABC chose her says much about the organisation. She has kept in touch and been a great encourager all through my career.