Sky News to remain in Qantas lounges as Leyonhjelm outrage continues
Qantas has signalled it plans to resist calls to remove Sky News from its lounges despite continuing controversy over Sunday morning show Outsiders.
Since the weekend, more than 6,000 people have signed an online petition calling on Qantas to stop showing the channel in its lounges.
The petition, aimed at Qantas CEO Alan Joyce, was launched yesterday by former News Corp journalist Shannon Molloy. It followed Sky News guest Senator David Leyonhjelm repeating a slur he made against fellow parliamentarian Sarah Hanson-Young last week.
“While the channel carries what is generally seen as balanced news coverage on weekdays, its evening and weekend programming is given over to mostly right-leaning commentary, with Outsiders among the most outspoken.”
Nice understatement. How about idiotic, bigoted and fringe right wing bile?
What an idiotic, bigoted and fringe left wing reply full of bile.
But it’s true.
That’s the point of Sky’s evening lineup – target the right wing audience segment with very right wing hosts, views and shows.
It’s not a lie or a secret. It’s Sky’s stated strategy to lift ratings.
Sky After Dark (the cute name for the strategy and portfolio of shows) usually struggles to get 40,000 viewers, so it’s not working well.
The most insincere grovelling (grovelling to management for being naughty boys) you’ve ever seen by those creatures Dean and Cameron tonight. “the apology is made” type of bs. Totally distanced from yourself. Narcissists are incapable of sorrow.
Yeah why don’t they just call people they don’t agree with “cunts” am I right….
Does this left wing rag sell moving goal posts?
Not sure I understand why Qantas is coping a backlash. Apparently it’s because this Shannon Molloy guy happened to be in a Qantas lounge while watching this unfold?
Considering the elderly sausage-fest that is the Quantas lounge – it seems oddly fitting that they should have Sky in there.
Obviously not an Australian.
We are taught how to spell Qantas in grade 3. It’s an acronym.
@line well at least the guests can spell the name of the airline.
Is that an achievement?
Lol, so 6000 ppl who probably never watch Sky News or frequent a Qantas business lounge signed a change.org petition. Nothing like a bit of keyboard warrior virtue signalling to feel morally superior.
Btw Mumbrella, I missed your campaign to have Tonightly taken off the ABC when Tom Ballard called a candidate a c**t recently.
I’ve decided to boycott Qantas following their support for Sky News. I’ll fly any airline but Qantas.
Leyonhjelm could have chosen his words better in the senate. On the other hand, his frustration is understandable. Australia is a country with a gynocentric social policy and media slant. Media reports and legislation are constructed around the gender stereotype that blames men for everything and trivializes the crimes by women. In particular, weaker, more vulnerable men are given little help in society, while vulnerable women are prioritized by the system. Male leaders simply don’t care about vulnerable men as human beings. Leyonhjelm is fighting an entrenched culture of gynocentrism
Considering Quantas still has employment rules whereby some it’s female staff MUST wear makeup to work and MUST wear high heels to work it’s no surprise they’re hardly championing women outside their workplace.
Do you realise that even when you post under different names, you give it away with the spelling? Quantas…