News Corp walks a delicate line on COVID politics
The Conversation
30 Jul 2021, 16:40 GMT+10
Elements within News Corporation are now fighting among themselves over how its platforms should position themselves in response to the worsening COVID crisis in New South Wales.
This has become clear with the decision by the editor of News Corp s Daily Telegraph, Ben English, to ditch Alan Jones as a columnist.
Over the past few weeks, as the coronavirus outbreak got inexorably worse, the Telegraph ran a series of characteristically shrill columns by Jones attacking mask-wearing, lockdowns and NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian.
Yet Jones also promotes these opinions on News Corp s Sky News, where his Sky-at-Night slot is undisturbed. Indeed, Jones makes a virtue of this, telling The Sydney Morning Herald:
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