It’s also an embarrassment to everyone who worked at Sky News Australia for the first 10-15 years or so of its life when it was a fairly respected news channel during all timeslots (albeit with some replayed content from their domestic & overseas affiliates to fill the gaps, outside of standard news bulletins) rather than just rabid right wing commentary at a level that would give 2GB a run for its money.
Again if you need proof, just remember that the first presenter on Sky News Australia in 1996 was Juanita Phillips. I’d bet that she is extremely glad to be at the ABC these days!
Lol. Let’s ignore all the relentless comments calling Sky News right wing and be triggered by one comment rightfully calling out the ABC left wing bias.
Thank god I don’t watch Sky News anymore… It’s soul destructive. Anyway TFTV Sky News is not exactly known for it’s investigative or unbiased journalism. ABC gives cold hard facts, provides in depth analysis while Sky News after dark just uses fearful and scare tactic right agenda bias to scare the Australian audience. (I am sure they have woken up to that fact).
I certainly saved my soul. Come join the real world. Your soul can be saved too.
I don’t really care which side of politics is supported by newsreaders or other professional journalists (Surely we can all accept that with the way Australia’s electoral process is, they’re perfectly entitled to a vote?) for as long as their personal opinions/biases aren’t so obvious in their professional work.
Everyone in the media (yes, even including Paul Murray and Andrew Bolt) should be allowed to have an opinion but if they say something dodgy or knowingly inaccurate, they need to be made accountable. Far too often that isn’t the case, as a look through the Media Watch archives will show you.
Still running with the “News you can trust. Opinions you can’t ignore” slogan I see. Doesn’t Sky News realise that people are editing that by flipping around can/can’t?
At least NAB came out with some not so meme edit-friendly ads for their “more give, less take” slogan years ago after realising that having the slogan in solid white text on black could be easily edited to read “more take, less give” (which I would argue is a slogan that all banks should be using )!
Anyway TFTV Sky News is not exactly known for it’s investigative or unbiased journalism. ABC gives cold hard facts, provides in depth analysis while Sky News after dark just uses fearful and scare tactic right agenda bias to scare the Australian audience. (I am sure they have woken up to that fact).
Come join the real world. 
Your soul can be saved too.
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