The Big Reset: Sky News looks back on lockdown criticism | Amanda meade

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Sky News political editor Andrew Clennell followed the fine tradition of colleagues Peta Credlin and Chris Kenny when he rushed into Gladys Berejiklians’ daily Covid briefing on Thursday and aggressively asked the Prime Minister about the locking efficiency.

A fiery Clennell who has repeatedly complained about the burden of home schooling dominated the conference, dotting the premier with a dozen questions, interrupting his answers and speaking loudly above other reporters.

Prime Minister, you have locked us up for three weeks and now you plan to lock us up for another two weeks, he said. We are all homeschooled and confined. What does that mean it won’t be two more weeks on top of that?

For the regular New South Wales Parliament press kit, it was about a performance by Clennell they had seen before: he went to ask the tough questions he thinks no one asks.

Eventually, Clennell’s questioning was interrupted by Channel Nine reporter Chris OKeefe, who stepped in to say enough is enough.

Unlike Credlin, who criticized Victorian Prime Minister Daniel Andrews for subjecting Melbourne to the longest and toughest lockdowns in the world, Clennell asked why Berejiklian hadn’t locked Sydney up longer and harder.

When are you going to recognize that it’s time to lock it down harder to get rid of this thing? He asked.

Coming on the heels of News Corp’s broader rhetoric of Andrews as dictator Dan crippling the state’s economy, it was quite a backflip.

The Clennells line was not well received by Daily Telegraph opinion writer and Sky Outsiders host James Morrow.

I’m as critical as anyone of Gladys’ response to this epidemic, but some of these demands to further break down businesses and virtually weld us in our house to this squeeze are off the hook. #SydneyLockdown

– James Morrow (@pwafork) July 15, 2021

Berijiklian didn’t shut down Clennell like Andrews did to Credlin, but she said later in the briefing: It’s not really nice to get yelled at, can I say.

Clear sky

The point of Clennell’s performance became clear hours later when Sky News showed the exchange in its entirety, with their correspondent as a truth seeker asking the questions all Sydneysiders ask. The question that was not asked is one in which he asked the Prime Minister to guarantee the end of the lockdown.

Can you guarantee that we won’t be locked up and homeschooled for the whole month of August Can you guarantee us that this will end on July 30?

Kelly gang

The podcast world was rocked by the news this week that Paul Kelly, the gray eminence in political journalism, is launching a podcast. With elegant simplicity, the podcast was named Paul Kelly: Columns. Because that’s exactly it: the 73-year-old journalist who reads his columns aloud.

As if that wasn’t enough to fathom, the piece announcing the move contained the remarkable claim that Kelly is so surprising with his ideas that he even surprises himself.

If you think you know what Paul Kelly is likely to write about a certain topic, you are probably wrong, Oz editor Claire Harvey wrote.

If you think you know what Paul Kelly is likely to write about a certain topic, you are probably wrong. Our national affairs guru always surprises readers. And for his latest, he is launching a podcast.https: //t.co/8TD1N4PlXr

– Australian Media (@aus_media) July 13, 2021

The Australian editor-in-chief, the national affairs guru, has devoted his 50 years to the heart of political journalism surprising himself and the reader with ideas he doesn’t even see coming.

Some nasty observers believe the podcast, read in Kellys distinctive tone, could also be a cure for insomnia, much like the BBCs Shipping Forecast, which has been used by Britons as a sleep aid for decades.

Canine campaign

Annabel Crabbs’ excellent new television series, Ms Represented, contains a rich collection of interviews with past and present female politicians who are exceptionally candid about the sexism they face in politics.

In episode one, Crabb speaks to former Minister of Labor Ros Kelly who, in 1983, became the first Member of Parliament to give birth during her tenure and served in the governments of Bob Hawke and Paul Keating.

The former Canberra MP tells Crabb how she had to prove to voters that she was a normal woman to get elected.

I had a partner then who didn’t want to be involved in the campaign at all, so to soften my image I did two things, Kelly said. First of all, I mainly campaigned with my dog.

Everywhere I went I had my little yellow car [with the slogan] Ros Kelly takes care of Canberra and my dog. And I had Mrs. Kellys’ cookbook.

Kelly’s husband at the time was of course journalist Paul Kelly, whose name she retained after their divorce.

Bad knowledge

We called it the ugliest website to come online in decades when it launched last year, but just 18 months later, global news brand News Corps, Knewz.com, s ‘is off.

The aggregation site sparked cries of making my eyes bleed in January 2020 due to its cluttered links and yellow highlighter scribble.

Knewz Us is in the House, the company cried over their project which was designed to compete with Google News but only balanced and present news from a wide variety of sources.

The farewell post on knowz.com was surprisingly straightforward, admitting that the project had failed because it certainly had provenance, but no profit.

The move comes months after News Corp signed a multi-year partnership with Google that will allow the search engine to pay for journalism from news sites around the world, including the Wall Street Journal, The Times and the Australian.

Calmer neighbors

For the first time in Neighbors’ 36-year history, the world’s dumbest, sunniest show won’t air five nights a week on TV.

Starting Monday, July 26, Neighbors will air four nights a week, Monday through Thursday at 6:30 p.m. on 10 Peach, Ten told the popular TV Tonight blog.

But Neighbors fans here and in the UK can relax as the spectacle is not reduced. The change was reportedly made to bring Australian episodes in line with Channel 5’s UK schedule, which fell behind Australia as it only aired two episodes a week when the pandemic threatened production.

It looks like the gap in the transmission meant the online spoilers were ruining it for UK fans.

Balance of power

The power structure at the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age has been turned upside down with the promotion of Tory Maguire to editor. The reshuffle came after chief digital and publishing director Chris Janz resigned, missing the CEO job given to Mike Sneesby when Hugh Marks abruptly stepped down in November.

Editor-in-chief of nine newspapers, Tory Maguire. Photography: Louis Douvis

Maguire will now have editorial oversight for all Metro Nine banners, including the Brisbane Times and digital-only WAToday.

Although he has never edited a subway newspaper, Maguire is higher in the food chain than Age Gay Alcorn editor and Herald editor Lisa Davies. A former opinion writer at News Corp, Maguire was editor-in-chief of HuffPost Australia, which she launched in 2015.

She joined the Fairfax / Nine group after the Fairfax Medias joint venture with the Huffington Post ended in 2017.

Maguire succeeds James Chessell, who has been promoted to Managing Director of Publishing and now adds the Australian Financial Review to his remit. We hope AFR editor-in-chief Michael Stutchbury won’t hesitate to share the reins with Chessell.

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