Huh? LS was hugely popular for years until she started editorialising on air and on twitter. She has also been incredibly disingenuous in calling all criticism trolling so now that any genuine critique is disregarded.
Looks fabulous. Just shows they should use the insiders set when they come from Melbourne rather than a dodgy key.
Leigh Sales sure is picking a hill to die on.
To play devilâs advocate - isnât her job to question and challenge government policies and decisions? Especially where the government is being (deliberately for political reasons) obtuse?
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cancelling on âgood orderâ is about sending a message rather then anything specific to Novak
You canât say sheâs not consistent recently.
The mixed response in the quote tweets / comments is fascinating. You do have to wonder what her colleagues at the ABC are thinking about her constant social media hot takes at this point.
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Probably getting a tad too vocal. Perhaps wrong sort of tone, keep it more reporting like vs the opinionated stuff. Save the opinions for the live interviews Leigh.
Thatâs why I love tingle. Asks the questions like Leigh is rambling on about on her tweets but doesnât put it all on Social feeds. Asks the questions to the people in live interviews. Not plastering all over the twitter. Saves the image a bit too.
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Itâs her personal twitter - sheâs well and truly entitled to post her own views and opinions. Not sure what the problem is. A lot of 7.30âs older audience probably donât even have twitter so wouldnât know what Leighâs posting.
Just because some of her audience wonât see the tweets doesnât mean anything. Some people still would, and whatâs to stop news corp or the DM from doing a hit piece on her and sharing her tweets there?
Imo journos like Leigh very much bridge the gap between personal and professional social media presences. Itâs all well and good for Leigh to have personal opinions on news stories but it is still important to make sure that sharing those opinions doesnât undermine her journalistic impartiality.
That is whatâs important.
Now, Iâm not saying that this specific tweet wasnât warranted, but journalists do need to be mindful of what they share on social media and, more importantly, how it could be interpreted.
It might not sound fair, but political journalists trade on their impartiality and having a public social media that regularly features quite opinionated takes on current events certainly wonât achieve a perception of being fair and balanced.
And what about her younger audiences? Sales can post anything she likes but it doesnât mean her opinions (like everyone elseâs) shouldnât go unchallenged if thereâs arguments against it. Plus journalists are meant to be balanced and fair on a professional platform like their programs and their social media feeds which portrays them in the public field.
You seem to be obsessed with wanting people to get off scot-free with whatever they say even if it might not be reasonable or could even be dangerous.
Nailed it.
We all know that her predecessor Kerry is as left wing as it gets, but he never let his personal views get in the way of impartiality, particularly as a presenter / journo during his time at 7:30
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Has the set been upgraded? Seems like the key behind Laura looks different? Or is that the insiders set?
Recently upgraded Parliament House studio.
7.30 is currently coming out of Canberra (with the new set).
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Ah that makes a lot of sense. It looks wonderful!
Sheâll still be bound by some kind of social media policy from the ABC (that no doubt has a significant over reach, most do)
Except sheâs on the record disagreeing with this as a concept.
I was talking more generally about if someone high profile like Leigh posts something on social media that may potentially lack logic or reasoning behind it should still be subject to criticism rather than under the guise of âitâs their opinion and they can do anything they like and get away with itâ.
Theyâre creating content on the back of retweets now? No wonder thereâs no byline on that. Thereâs more comments on the news article than interaction with Salesâ retweet.
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Leigh back tonight?