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Mar 19th, 2019 at 4:45pm
 
Good on her!  Cool


Muslim Sky News staffer quits and says channel increases ‘polarisation and paranoia’


Rashna Farrukh says the Christchurch massacre shows media coverage has ‘real life consequences’

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A young Muslim woman says she quit her junior liaison job at Sky News after the Christchurch massacre because she felt the commentators were increasing polarisation and fear.

“Some nights I felt physically sick, others I even shed tears in my car on the way home,” Rashna Farrukh wrote for ABC online after resigning from Sky after three years. “I continued to compromise my values. Not only my values as a member of a religious group who was continuously being blamed and alienated by the rhetoric on these shows, but also as an aspiring journalist.

“I compromised my values and beliefs to stand idly by as I watched commentators and pundits instill more and more fear into their viewers.”


Sky News commentator Chris Kenny criticised the ABC for running the piece. An original version was corrected because Farrukh claimed Sky News Australia broadcast images from inside the mosque. Sky says it showed segments of the live stream but not from inside the mosque.

Farrukh listed interviews she had witnessed that had disturbed her including Cory Bernardi advocating to ban the burqa, Pauline Hanson talking about her motion “It’s OK to Be White” and Bronwyn Bishop claiming that “war” had been declared against western culture.

“I answered calls from viewers who yelled about immigrants and Muslims ruining Australia,” she said. “They did not realise that the person on the other end of the phone was both of those things.

“I stood on the other side of the studio doors while they slammed every minority group in the country – mine included – increasing polarisation and paranoia among their viewers.”

Farrukh was a casual liaison staffer for the Australian news channel’s Canberra studio in Parliament House, where she helped studio guests and assisted in the office. She said she hoped to get a fulltime job after graduating from university.

“Even as young journalists, we should act on our morals now rather than at some point in the future where we assume that we will have more of a say,” she wrote. “As we saw in Christchurch, what happens in our media can have real life consequences.”

A spokesperson for Sky News said: “We respect Rashna’s decision and wish her well with her future endeavours.

“As a news and national affairs broadcaster Sky News is committed to debate and discussion which is vital to a healthy democracy.”


The media is under pressure after the tragedy as questions are asked about giving platforms to politicians with extreme views.

The ABC has apologised for live streaming Fraser Anning’s Brisbane press conference on Facebook. The ABC News executive editor, Craig McMurtrie, said the decision not to take the press conference live on any ABC platform did not get to a social media producer who uploaded it to Facebook.

McMurtrie told Rafael Epstein on ABC Melbourne radio that it was a mistake.

The ABC decided early on Friday not to show any GoPro vision shot by the killer, but Channel Seven and Nine and Sky did show excerpts and are now being investigated by the media watchdog.

“This is a fraught area for reporting, particularly as events are unfolding and instant editorial decisions have to be made,” McMurtrie wrote. “We don’t always get it right.

“There is a legitimate debate to be had about the extent to which showing any disturbing pictures or identifying an attacker gives that person exactly what they want.

“But reporting what happened and analysing how it could have happened are clearly in the public interest. It’s what responsible journalists do – the test is whether it can be done without giving the alleged shooter the platform they crave.”

According to Media Watch, Seven and Nine also showed vision from inside the mosque at one point.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/mar/19/muslim-sky-news-staffer-quits-and-...
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Reply #1 - Mar 19th, 2019 at 5:26pm
 
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Reply #2 - Mar 19th, 2019 at 5:26pm
 
Mark Steyn nails is as usual.





All jihad is local, but all "Islamophobia" is global. So, if a Muslim of Afghan origin shoots up a gay nightclub in Florida and kills 49 people, that's just one crazed loner and no broader lessons can be discerned from his act. On the other hand, if a white guy shoots up two mosques in New Zealand and kills 50 people, that indicts us all, and we need to impose worldwide restraints on free speech to make sure it doesn't happen again. I'm ecumenical enough to mourn the dead in both gay clubs and mosques, but I wonder why we are so conditioned to accept Islamic terror as (in the famous words of London mayor Sadiq Khan) "part and parcel of living in a big city" that it is only the exceptions to the rule that prompt
industrial-scale moral preening from politicians and media.

https://www.steynonline.com/9249/calling-out-around-the-world

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Reply #3 - Mar 19th, 2019 at 5:27pm
 
Valkie wrote on Mar 19th, 2019 at 5:26pm:
Good

1 down 6000 to go


6,000 staff at Sky News?

Really?  Shocked
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Reply #4 - Mar 19th, 2019 at 5:28pm
 
Frank wrote on Mar 19th, 2019 at 5:26pm:
Mark Steyn nails is as usual.





All jihad is local, but all "Islamophobia" is global. So, if a Muslim of Afghan origin shoots up a gay nightclub in Florida and kills 49 people, that's just one crazed loner and no broader lessons can be discerned from his act. On the other hand, if a white guy shoots up two mosques in New Zealand and kills 50 people, that indicts us all, and we need to impose worldwide restraints on free speech to make sure it doesn't happen again. I'm ecumenical enough to mourn the dead in both gay clubs and mosques, but I wonder why we are so conditioned to accept Islamic terror as (in the famous words of London mayor Sadiq Khan) "part and parcel of living in a big city" that it is only the exceptions to the rule that prompt
industrial-scale moral preening from politicians and media.

https://www.steynonline.com/9249/calling-out-around-the-world



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Reply #5 - Mar 19th, 2019 at 5:49pm
 
You mean it's not OK to be White?  damn - just when I was getting comfortable in my own skin and getting in touch with my inner White Guy.... now a Tinted has blown that all out the window....

Back to the White Board......
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Reply #6 - Mar 19th, 2019 at 5:57pm
 
The preening is idiotic.  Muslims now blame CHELSEA CLINTON -  yes, Bill and Hil's daughter - for Christchurch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=21&v=PaMnmgZ9zSA


The vicious insanity is palpable.

And what was the rhetoric she put out, you may ask???



Mark Steyn explains:

All poor Chelsea was doing was trying to cut herself a piece of the grief-signaling action, and suddenly she finds herself in one big unsafe space:

According to NYU student Rose Asaf, who posted the video on Twitter, students at the vigil were angry about Clinton's accusation last month that Rep Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, used 'anti-Semitic language and tropes' while criticizing Israel...

Clinton was one of many who condemned Omar's remarks, writing in a tweet: 'We should expect all elected officials, regardless of party, and all public figures to not traffic in anti-Semitism.'

It's hate-filled Islamophobic statements like that that will get us all killed, Chelsea. Personally I blame Christchurch on Nancy Pelosi's recent House resolution condemning the Dreyfus Affair.




Madness is engulfing the world. Speaking up against antsemitism is now Islamophobia!!!!!!



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Reply #7 - Mar 19th, 2019 at 5:57pm
 
Good, its a chance to employ an Aussie with an Aussie perspective rather than Muslims who identify as being Muslims before being Australians. Is SBS racist!

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Reply #8 - Mar 19th, 2019 at 6:21pm
 
No one cares...enjoy the dole queue loser.
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Reply #9 - Mar 19th, 2019 at 6:24pm
 
Johnnie wrote on Mar 19th, 2019 at 5:57pm:
Good, its a chance to employ an Aussie with an Aussie perspective rather than Muslims who identify as being Muslims before being Australians. Is SBS racist!



Sorry ... what's the SBS got to do with this?


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Reply #10 - Mar 19th, 2019 at 6:27pm
 
Captain Nemo wrote on Mar 19th, 2019 at 6:24pm:
Johnnie wrote on Mar 19th, 2019 at 5:57pm:
Good, its a chance to employ an Aussie with an Aussie perspective rather than Muslims who identify as being Muslims before being Australians. Is SBS racist!



Sorry ... what's the SBS got to do with this?



Yeah wrong, all media are leftists.
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Reply #11 - Mar 19th, 2019 at 6:28pm
 
Johnnie wrote on Mar 19th, 2019 at 6:27pm:
Captain Nemo wrote on Mar 19th, 2019 at 6:24pm:
Johnnie wrote on Mar 19th, 2019 at 5:57pm:
Good, its a chance to employ an Aussie with an Aussie perspective rather than Muslims who identify as being Muslims before being Australians. Is SBS racist!



Sorry ... what's the SBS got to do with this?



Yeah wrong, all media are leftists.


Sky News is "leftist"?  Shocked
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Reply #12 - Mar 19th, 2019 at 6:31pm
 
Captain Nemo wrote on Mar 19th, 2019 at 6:28pm:
Johnnie wrote on Mar 19th, 2019 at 6:27pm:
Captain Nemo wrote on Mar 19th, 2019 at 6:24pm:
Johnnie wrote on Mar 19th, 2019 at 5:57pm:
Good, its a chance to employ an Aussie with an Aussie perspective rather than Muslims who identify as being Muslims before being Australians. Is SBS racist!



Sorry ... what's the SBS got to do with this?



Yeah wrong, all media are leftists.


Sky News is "leftist"?  Shocked

What is it then?
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Reply #13 - Mar 19th, 2019 at 6:32pm
 
Red-neck far right.
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Reply #14 - Mar 19th, 2019 at 6:34pm
 
Captain Nemo wrote on Mar 19th, 2019 at 6:32pm:
Red-neck far right.

I may have to retune my satellite dish.
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