Studio 10 rolling coverage finished at 1pm.
Mike Amor has been doing lots of rolling coverage in Australia since leaving America. He is likely groomed to succeed Mitchell
4 Corners next Monday.
Special one hour edition of The Latest starting at 10pm tonight.
Great to see Mike Amor utilised lots by Seven. I take it he’s on standby during the day for a few eeekdays anyway (as he also presents Afternoon News in Melbourne as well as weekends), in the same way Nick Etchells, Jacquie Felgate, Nick McCallum, Blake Johnson have in recent years, as a back-up to Sydney if required from BCM.
All the publications which referenced the Pell case, even obliquely, were targeted because there was a blanket suppression on any information about the case, including that there was a suppression order.
Does it mean overseas media outlets (which first reported of the verdict back in December) will not be prosecuted over the breach?
On surface, to be even unable to mention such a suppression order existed during Pell’s tribunal was unfair. It showed the courts were out of touch in the digital age. As a minimum, the public should have been told of a suppression order. Then there would not have been such speculation when the verdict was first handed down.
Perhaps it’s worth discussion in another topic?
Dear God.
…and that was an edited version. The original (of which screencaps can still be found on Twitter) will make your stomach churn.
News Corp, Sky News, Macquarie Radio: You MUST sack Andrew Bolt RIGHT NOW!
Mike Amor presenting Seven Afternoon News Melbourne from the County Court.
Jacquline Felgate back at HSV7 for the rest of the days news.
This morning’s coverage from Seven
23:05 for the 12pm news with Ann Sanders
The first bit of his column this afternoon:
Jesuit Catholic priest Frank Brennan has written similarly in questioning the conviction, though Brennan is fair more considered in his writing and also accepts that Pell may well lose his appeal and Brennan would accept that. As a Jesuit, Brennan has never been a Roman Catholic yes man.
It was all over Twitter and on non-mainstream news sites. Ex-broadcaster Michael Smith wrote that because he was overseas at the time the suppression order didn’t apply to himself.