News Corp associate editor given third Sky After Dark show. Plus the hoax tweet that fooled journalists and MPs
Media Watch host Paul Barry has a rival. On Monday, News Corp’s most prolific resident media critic, the Australian’s associate editor and columnist Chris Kenny will launch Kenny on Media, a new show on Sky. The former Liberal adviser promises to “call out fake news and put media behaviour under the spotlight”. He must get on well with the new Sky boss, ex-Murdoch editor Paul Whittaker, because he now has three shows on the After Dark line-up.
We’re pretty sure Kenny will have lots of advice on how the ABC should be run if his Twitter feed is any indication. Just this week he suggested in a column the retiring ABC broadcaster Jon Faine be replaced by a presenter “who might argue a pragmatic and cautious approach on climate policy or the primacy of affordability and reliability in energy settings”. The new Faine could “argue for winding back immigration numbers” and support border policies, Kenny mused.
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