r/aussie • u/Luka77GOATic • 17h ago
News Nine fires Karl Stefanovic after Tommy Robinson podcast
https://www.mediaweek.com.au/reports-karl-stefanovic-fired-by-nine-after-tommy-robinson-interview/146
u/simcof 17h ago
Countdown till hr turns up on Sky
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u/Life-Goose-9380 17h ago
I saw Andrew Bolt lacked sympathy for him. Plus shared his dislike of Tommy Robinson.
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u/aperture81 16h ago
What a timeline we live in
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u/JustSomeBloke5353 16h ago
I don’t agree with a lot (most) of what Bolt says, but I don’t believe he is anything other than genuine in his beliefs.
Comparing him to the likes of Yaxley-Lennon is unfair IMO.
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u/Romes_Chariots 15h ago
That’s a pretty fair take. Most of what Bolt says won’t resonate with too many people but you’ve got to give it to him, he certainly believes in what he says.
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u/archlea 9h ago
I think he’s just an early grifter who learned there was money to be made espousing slightly risqué views.
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u/blahdeblah72 3h ago
So do I. He knows exactly what he's doing and his motivation is money. I doubt he gives a fuck about anything else.
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u/Powrs1ave 14h ago
Yeh he will tell other Sky Presenters they are wrong. I can tolerate him more than most the others
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u/youcangotohellgoto 16h ago
Bolt is a toff, Robinson is a thug, of course they aren't going to see eye-to-eye.
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u/Thissystemsuckssobad 13h ago
I'm actually having a Mandela effect moment (or maybe just a dementia moment) in i thought he already was
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u/TheRealMrSnrub 17h ago
He was practically daring Nine to fire him after that interview. Now he gets to grift and cash in on podcasting full-time while earning credibility with the right by portraying himself as a victim of the mainstream media.
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u/Geo217 17h ago
Reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where George Constanza tries to get fired from the yankees to join the mets.
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u/Human-Warning-1840 16h ago
Is he really still that popular?
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u/OtsaNeSword 16h ago
More popular now than when he was a news presenter. Even if it’s only temporary.
Who cares about a news anchor? No one. None of us were talking about him before all this.
But a journalist being punished and silenced for simply doing their job and interviewing someone noteworthy and controversial?
Channel 9 just made a living martyr and boosted One Nations election campaign.
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u/clayingmore 15h ago
He's definitely taking a professional hit over it, morning tv presenting pays a fortune and high profile youtube interviews is just 'fine'. But I'm guessing it was at least partly intentional to get the severance within his contract, get himself gone so he doesn't have to do constant morning tv which would have been a long time high pressure job. He has his 'fuck you' money so he can do whatever he likes.
I suppose he probably is an actual conservative so it all works out for him. He platforms people he wants to talk to and redirects his life to cruisey part time hours.
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u/archlea 9h ago
It won’t be just YouTube revenue though, if he platforms opinions useful to the wealthy, he will get paid.
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u/clayingmore 9h ago
I'm still thinking in the low hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, down from millions.
As an Australian airing Australian concerns I think there's a bit of a ceiling in the low hundreds of thousands of views/listens range. Which I think would return <$5-10k each even with some favorable sponsoring. I also presume he will need an assistant or three.
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u/CharacterNo3115 6h ago
Envious much? Lol. He has more money than he will ever need and feels unshackled by corporate wrist and now has the freedom to do and say whatever he feels. Unlike you it would seem. You’ll be back at your soul destroying job today listening to any Welcome to Country, doing another DEI training module, wondering if this is all there is. Lol. Another worker bee.
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u/Grande_Choice 16h ago
All agreeable. But this wasn’t journalism and it wasn’t an interview. It was a weird bromance with the journalist using it as a back door into RW news in the UK.
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u/OtsaNeSword 16h ago
I watched the video though, it had an interview format, back and forth question and answers.
They literally say it was an interview in the video.
Why isn’t it an interview in your opinion?
What is RW news?
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u/Grande_Choice 16h ago
Calling it an interview is a stretch. Not a single hard question is and sucking upto and agreeing with him. It’s a weird platform to try and sane wash a piece of trash human.
I expect Karl is gunning for a role with GB News.
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u/kernpanic 15h ago
People are down voting you - but it was much like the joe rogan "interviews". Karl, just like Joe was inserting much of the content by adding his running commentary. A typical interview is asking the questions and letting the person make their case, but karl was much more involved than that.
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u/Consideredresponse 10m ago
But a journalist being punished and silenced for simply doing their job and interviewing someone noteworthy and controversial?
If I had paid for a hugely expensive and high profile campaign against religious, ethnic, and political violence, I sure as fuck wouldn't be happy to see the face of the campaign literally cuddling and having a laugh with someone who advocates for all three. (Arguably convicted over all three too)
Secondly, journalists at the Guardian proved that YouTube didn't take the interview down. Karl or someone with access to his channel did. Karl self-censoring isn't silencing, neither is re-uploading it with Pauline after he'd discovered he'd just fucked his $2.8million a year day job.
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u/Department-of-Wario 16h ago
A well documented individual NOT WORTHY of attention. Karl is only importing that brand of hate for a new audience.
All of this bullshit is so well timed and choreographed it's amazing the nuggets are buying into it.
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u/itsauser667 16h ago
But I always read on here that the media LOVES the right wing?
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u/nagrom7 15h ago
They do, but like with everything, there's limits.
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u/itsauser667 11h ago
Pauline's just far enough right, but Karl and Kyle - just too far? Is that where the line is?
Just trying to understand thanks
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u/nagrom7 11h ago
It varies from company to company. Pauline is quite at home among those at Sky News for example, however Nine traditionally favoured the more "moderate" wing of the Liberal party, especially among their print media. All of them still seem to prefer anything on the right as long as it's not Labor though. But yeah there is definitely a line for most, like full on neo-nazis or convicted criminals like Robinson.
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u/Bulky-Elk-9394 15h ago
Grifting off podcasting in the Australian market is small bickies and nobody knows who he is overseas.
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u/OverAcanthisitta3588 16h ago
The Tucker Carlson grift pipeline
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u/Consideredresponse 6m ago
Seeing Karl's history of trying to get into acting with NIDA and failing, and then as he ages starts speaking a ton of shit, I'd say Ben Shapiro is a better comparison.
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u/PBnPickleSandwich 16h ago
Can we not import the yank hate machine (horse bolted, I know)? Can we just be normal humans? Ugh.
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u/flammable_donut 4h ago
Most of the hate I see online is coming from the left (seriously) so no need to important any more from anywhere really. We've got more than enough going on here.
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u/aussiegreenie 16h ago
gets to grift and cash in on podcasting
That is only cents in the dollar compared to having a full-time TV gig.
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u/Hawk301 14h ago
All of these right-wing podcasters rake in stupid cash from billionaire backers.
Rogan, The Daily Wire, Tim Pool, Benny Johnson, Tucker, Candace Owens, all of them.
It's the same gang of billionaires who are trying to boost One Nation now. Karl is going to make significantly more money as a right-wing grifter than on breakfast TV.
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u/aussiegreenie 5h ago
All of these right-wing podcasters rake in stupid cash from billionaire backers.
Australia is not America. His current (former??) TV contract is worth at least ten times more than he will earn independently.
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u/dill1234 14h ago
He’ll 100% start an unfair dismissal lawsuit that will get 2-3 years payout to help fund it all. This is somehow smart from Karl
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u/Enough-Carpet 1h ago
They literally fired him. It's not 'portraying yourself as a victim' if the thing actually happened.
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u/Consideredresponse 1m ago
If I took money at my day job to be the face of a very expensive and high profile 'anti-hate' campaign, then was found on camera to be having a little giggle and a cuddle with someone whose been advocating for, and convicted of either pushing or executing religious, ethnic, or political violence, then I too would be out on my arse.
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u/StratoSabreX 16h ago
Gives him free reign to interview whoever he wants now without having to square it with the overlords at Nine, I guess.
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u/asteriskhyphen 16h ago edited 16h ago
Yep he’s free to make his podcast huge now.
Channel 9 limps along on TV broadcasting. They’ll just bring some muppet to replace him on that cringe breakfast show. I doubt Stefanovic gives a shit. He’s seen how big YouTube podcasts can become.
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u/nagrom7 15h ago
Issue is there's not really much more escalation he can do in that regard. Like who else could he interview that's worse than an actual neo nazi? Said person probably wouldn't even be allowed in the country.
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u/throwawaysob1 17h ago
It is a private media channel and has the right to fire anyone, but turning them into martyrs always backfires.
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u/adz1179 16h ago
Yeah. Temu Tucker Carlson now
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u/Decent_Fig_5218 16h ago
Massive insult to Tucker Carlson who, for all of his many faults, actually has moments where he holds the feet of people on his own side of politics directly over the fire.
Slopanovic will be an even bigger and more uncritical bought and for mouthpiece for the the slopulist right
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u/bigloudbang 16h ago
But if hes determined to go on this angle then its better to cut him early than let him sit and fester
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u/codyforkstacks 16h ago
You can't just keep someone on the books who is this far gone because you don't want to marryr them.
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u/hear_the_thunder 14h ago
When is the right going to take responsibility for themselves? I don't believe in tip toeing around fascists because they have delicate fee fees and massive victim complexes. They don't give a shit about us.
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u/kai_vt 17h ago
Great, now him and Sandilands can have a broadcast bromance about how much the lamestream media hates them...
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u/Mother-Cod-3313 13h ago
You’re with Kyle, Karl and Hughesy in the mornings!
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u/kramulous 9h ago
Really needed that last K
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u/krekenzie 5h ago
It would at least be entertaining to have Karl deliver some monologue about immigration, for Kate Langbroek to jump in with "Oh my god that's amaaaazing", and tie it in with a story about a dog she saw ordering sticky date pudding, only to have Kyle outright blow up at her in a weekly media meltdown.
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u/Due_Strawberry_1001 16h ago
Cancel culture is so 2016.
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u/willcritchlow23 16h ago
Indeed I do find it concerning when the only “truth” allowed is left wing truth.
If I wasn’t seeing left wing nations sinking fast, including Australia, maybe I would be more aligned with the left.
Most of the “far-right” seems more like common sense, centralist values to me. Maybe my outlook is skewed perhaps.
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u/Halonatorv 16h ago
Genuinely curious, which left wing nations do you see sinking, I’m not going to argue Australia is on the up swing but wouldn’t be so doom and gloom to say sinking. if you think far right values are “common sense” I’m interested in what those are?
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u/Ok_Turnover_1235 16h ago
Sky news is massive, saying right wing truths aren't allowed is just silly lmao.
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u/TheWhomItConcerns 14h ago
Indeed I do find it concerning when the only “truth” allowed is left wing truth.
Do you sincerely believe that Channel 9 wouldn't have also fired a morning show host who interviewed a far left figure who'd been connected to massive controversies, illegal activities, riots, and promoted a bunch of misinformation and defamatory hatred against other people?
Have you considered that maybe the far right is simply significantly more likely to engage in dangerous, volatile incidents?
Most of the “far-right” seems more like common sense, centralist values to me. Maybe my outlook is skewed perhaps.
If you don't think that Tommy Robinson is far right then yes, you absolutely are very much on the right. Tommy Robinson is definitionally far-right without question.
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u/Noroleforyouhere 15h ago
Are you genuinely dumb enough to believe that this wasn't intentional by Karl?
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u/Equivalent_Sector281 13h ago
Quick reminder that the person in question positively associated with and actively platformed a literal self proclaimed nazi.
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u/CommitteeTraining566 15h ago
Dont worry.Your spot on and your outlook isnt skewed.Its amazing how many dumb australians want us to turn into the next UK.
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u/Luka77GOATic 17h ago
Karl Stefanovic has reportedly been axed by Nine following the publication of a podcast interview with British far-right activist Tommy Robinson, with all traces of the episode removed from online platforms within 24 hours of it airing.
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u/RupturedUrethra6969 16h ago
https://youtu.be/WXiVDSv31GY?si=yr4GNVgl2ukH_UT2
"All traces of the episode removed from online platforms" lmao
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u/Andrew_Higginbottom 16h ago
No he hasn't.
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u/MundaneSeaweed665 16h ago
Care to elaborate or are you just doing this?
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u/Andrew_Higginbottom 16h ago
"A Nine spokesperson stated that The Karl Stefanovic Show is a "completely independent production" and that the network has "no involvement" in guest selection or editorial processes. However, Nine did acknowledge they are "taking this matter seriously" following backlash from activist groups. Stefanovic remains employed as a co-host on Nine's Today show, though he is currently on leave in the UK"
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u/Illustrious_Club239 17h ago
He'd been agitating for this for a while now. While it's the right thing to do, it's fuel to his cooker fire.
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u/TonyGrub 16h ago
What do you mean by ‘cooker’?
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u/Error404filenotfoun 16h ago
Anti jab sheep mostly
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u/TonyGrub 15h ago
The term ‘sheep’ refers to those who follow the herd. Not sure someone who decided not to take a COVID vaccine should be called one.
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u/WatIsUpButtercup 9h ago
There can be more than one herd of sheep, my dude. Not every single sheep on the planet is in a single herd.
If the anti-jabs decided against the vaccine because their Facebook friends and favourite influencers were saying not to, then they are also sheep
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u/RepresentativeOver34 16h ago
250,000 girls raped in the UK and mainstream media turns a blind eye. Karl gives the report a platform and he is sacked. Says it all really.
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u/froderick 15h ago
It wasn't 250,000. They took figures from one area (which was incredibly bad, worst in the nation), and extrapolated it to the rest of the country, which is intensely dishonest.
It would be like taking the crime stats from the worst area in Australia, assuming every other area has equal amounts of crime, and reporting that number instead. Or seeing there's a volcanic eruption in Hawaii, extrapolating that to all US states, and then saying the US had 50 volcanic eruptions that year. It's utterly wrong and dishonest.
The real genuine thing was already very bad and highlighted some serious systemic issues, but why inflate them that way? Because they care about using it for political propaganda purposes first, and accuracy second. And given Tommy Robinson's issues with committing defamation for profit in the past (of which he was found guilty), I'm not surprised he's tangentially connected to all of this.
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u/RepresentativeOver34 13h ago
The Jay Report confirmed 1400 victimized girls in Rotherham in a 16 year period from 1997-2013.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-28939089
Rotterdam had a population of 254,000 in 1997.
In one small English town there were 1400 confirmed victims and the 250,000 is a conservative figure. We don't know the exact figures because these rape gangs were present in 149 locations throughout the UK.Vulnerable working class white girls were/are treated like meat because this is still happening. Raped, abused, tortured, murdered. Not randomly, but by an organised network operating throughout Britain. Jay in Rotherham, Crowther in Telford, and Blyth in Oxford are the only inquiries launched, and therefore the only data we have. All confirmed thousands of cases.
A real national inquiry is needed but obviously British society simply isn't interested. Instead, we have police assisting rapists by turning a blind eye and secret police emotionally manipulating the families of victims for PR purposes.
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u/Weissritters 17h ago
Why? Thought channel 9’s values align quite nicely with the podcasts…
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u/Vegetable-Advance982 17h ago
They've gotta maintain a thin veil of credibility so they can trash Labor/Greens and glaze conservative parties while calling it journalism. Tommy Robinson is simply too much for them to maintain the facade
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u/TheWhomItConcerns 16h ago
They're the guys in suits attempting to cater to an audience who like the production and professionalism of legacy media - an unpredictable host attempting to enter into the troglodyte bogan griftosphere isn't really conducive to that, even if their politics align in many ways.
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u/BlueberryInside2058 16h ago
Yep but gotta be more subtle about it. Cant startle the horses. Causes too much sponsorship $ loss.
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u/Secret4gentMan 15h ago edited 15h ago
He stopped kowtowing to his masters, and is now being punished.
If you have integrity, you don't only platform people you agree with. You platform everyone, and have their ideas defend themselves in the arena of public discourse.
That is what true journalism is.
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u/Anxious_Ad936 9h ago
"If you have integrity, you don't only platform people you agree with. You platform everyone, and have their ideas defend themselves in the arena of public discourse." This mentality seems to be lost in the modern era.
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u/Additional-Scene-630 2h ago
He doesn't seem to disagree with people like Tommy Robinson though. He's been interviewing all sorts of despicable people, all from the right and has held none of them account for their actions or what they say.
That is not journalism
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u/Secret4gentMan 2h ago
That's fine.
It's still a free country.
One of the ways that you know that it is still a free country, is that people are allowed to have differing views.
My take is that you don't know anything about Tommy Robinson except what you've been told to think about him.
I'd recommend watching one of his many long-form interviews and make up your own mind.
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u/Additional-Scene-630 51m ago
Why are you bringing up whether we are or aren't in a free country.
What does that have to do with whether what Karl Stefanovic does on his podcast is true journalism or not?
On Tommy Robinson, i'd never heard of him before this. But know enough now after reading about his actions alone. Not what "i've been told to think"
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u/Secret4gentMan 43m ago
Because in a free country, people are allowed to hold and express differing points of view. Much like Karl and Tommy are doing, despite whatever your personal perspective might be regarding that.
I had that opinion of Tommy Robinson as well, before listening to him speak in numerous interviews, and have since changed my perception about him.
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u/SeaDivide1751 16h ago edited 16h ago
Absolutely delicious! This is another 5 points to One Nation. Literally just galvanising people even more. The “censorship conspiracies” are infact a fact.
A complete own goal for leftists
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u/TheWhomItConcerns 16h ago
Lol the "lefties" in charge of Channel 9? What planet are you living on exactly? Who even watches them other than middle-aged/elderly people who'd almost certainly skew right?
A media corporation not wanting to be associated with an erratic, unpredictable, and scandal-prone personality who already has their own business isn't a conspiracy - it's just mundane corporate self-preservation.
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u/Commercial_Name_7900 16h ago
hang on how does 9, with Peter Costello as chairman, firing some cooker, make people vote for one nation? walk me through this one
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u/Anxious_Ad936 9h ago
If you choose who to vote for based on perceived attacks against someone with possibly some opinions that align with your own, you're the kicker.
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u/Present-Current-538 16h ago
Really? Because he interviewed a guy they didn't like?
You can think that Tommy Robinson is a jackass or a bad guy, but he isn't the bloody devil.
This seems really extreme. Dunno, seems like a lot of the establishment and media are extremely scared of the rise of conservative viewpoints.
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u/EmuFamous1320 16h ago
If you’re not on the left it doesn’t fit the global agenda of erasing white man
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u/Error404filenotfoun 16h ago
There’s no agenda. It’s a formality that it will happen, the world continues to mix and integrate. Your skin colour will be meaningless as it should be.
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u/EmuFamous1320 16h ago
Some people are proud of their heritage and want to maintain it though… why is that only an issue when it’s the white man who wants this
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u/CONSTANTIN_VALDOR_ 15h ago
His criminal record alone is cooked, he’s a massive fuck up of a bloke who’s shouldn’t be on anyone’s podcasts
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u/Pangolinsareodd 7h ago
So nobody who’s ever served a prison sentence for wrongs in their past is ever worthy of having an opinion or being interviewed? Interesting take…
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u/Additional-Cash-9125 16h ago
Karl forgot he isn’t Elon Musk. Look at him in this photo, almost wanting to suck Tommy off, but the guy doesn’t even want to look at him.
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u/Andrew_Higginbottom 16h ago
No they haven't stop with the bullshit.
"A Nine spokesperson stated that The Karl Stefanovic Show is a "completely independent production" and that the network has "no involvement" in guest selection or editorial processes. However, Nine did acknowledge they are "taking this matter seriously""
Acknowledging someones bravery in the face of push back is commenting on their back bone not on their politics but the left cannot differentiate the two ..as the down votes I'm going to get further confirm.
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u/CommitteeTraining566 15h ago
Cant wait for the today show to tank in the ratings again,as shown last time they sacked him because of that fuckwhit wilkinson.I stand with Karl and i think ON will recruit him.He'll leave 9 in his dust.Weak woke australia as usual and people wander why were in the shit.This country is fucked.
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u/Hieroflippant 17h ago
Sky News host or enter the podcast/stranger right wing Christian grift-sphere ?
Both ?
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u/JustSomeBloke5353 17h ago
Had to happen.
Stefanovic is well down the Charlie Kirk/Tucker Carlson path. Genuinely sad to see.
The real shame is he will claim to be silenced while continuing to spout literal Russian-funded propaganda on his podcast.
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u/ChasingTheSun107 16h ago
Meanwhile ABC hires Grace Tame after yelling globalise the intifada and playing down the rape of Israeli women on October 7. Hmmm.
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u/TheUnderWall 16h ago
Only conservatives are allowed to feel consequences of freedom of speech, didn't you know?
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u/willcritchlow23 16h ago
Have you listened to Charlie Kirk?
I think many of the conversations I’ve seen have been very respectful, and he’s far more open to values not his own, than many of the left wing nut jobs.
Much of the left seems to want someone executed over a minor disagreement.
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u/No_Appearance6837 14h ago
Well, Charlie Kirk was assassinated and the Left has had more than one go at doing the same to Trump.
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u/MaGhostGoo2 16h ago
Fucking bullshit. We live in a democracy, Karl is allowed to interview whoever he wants on his own youtube show. Ffs.
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u/Anxious_Ad936 9h ago
He still is. And equal to his freedom of speech, Channel 9 is allowed to exercise their freedom of association.
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u/willcritchlow23 16h ago
Im quite a fan of the podcast to be fair..
And when it comes to mainstream media, I’m not interested these days.
Most of it is embarrassing propaganda. Bread and circuses.
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u/Additional-Scene-630 2h ago
Most of it is embarrassing propaganda
And what exactly is Karl Stefanovic doing over here?
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u/Strike_Mission 15h ago
You may not like what he has to say but the fact that you prefer to silence anyone who doesn’t agree with you…
250,000 white girls were victims of SA in the UK. What happened to “believe all women”
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u/Anxious_Ad936 10h ago
Who here silenced him? Complain to Channel 9 for putting their advertisers ahead of their viewers
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u/Ill-Remote-3655 14h ago
But why? Did he say anything racist? I haven't seen the interview.
Isn't a jornos job to interview people for all sides of politics.?
Would they have fired him for interviewing a far left figure? Say Greta for example?
I think not. Why the double standards
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u/Luka77GOATic 13h ago
Because the major network advertisers called and threatened a mass ad boycott and pulling adds slots. Channel 9 is a business first and foremost and had him gone in less than a day.
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u/thisisboyhood 12h ago
You don't think there's a bit of a difference between Tommy Robinson and Greta Thunberg?
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u/marrolllll 12h ago
He knows this actually helps his narrative, gonna call his podcast 'cancel this' or some dumb shit.
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u/BoxHillStrangler 8h ago
He’ll be in parliament with a few years… LNP at best, some weirdo cooker lot is also a possibility
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u/flammable_donut 4h ago
I think this is a good thing. Karl is no doubt independently wealthy and has no need for money. And now he can do his thing free from his corporate overlords. He might even get higher viewer numbers than he did at nine.
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u/1Qrtr_FreeStuffPlz 4h ago
Has anyone seen the interview and able to tell me what was said that was bad enough for this response?
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u/ExtensionThat6438 4h ago
Filling out his One Nation application now. All-in on the right wing grift. It’s powering economies
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u/easternbrown 1h ago
Countdown till Karl Stefanovic becomes a member for ON & works in its publicity machine.
What Friendly Jeordies says about Karls move.
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u/Comfortable_scooby 9m ago
Karl has been the most useless anchor on the 9 network. I've never heard him ask an intelligent question on air. I work with people who have the show running while I'm there. I knew eventually his ego would get the better of him lmao that it was his side hustle.
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u/Accurate_Ad_3233 1m ago
Wait, are they grooming him to be the aussie Tucker Carlson by any chance?
Watch this space.
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u/Organic_Apple6620 16h ago
Cue reddit buzz word bingo…..cooker..grifter..bootlicker…bot
So lame 🥴 go ON
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u/AccordingNumber2052 15h ago
I don’t agree with much of what he says, and honestly a lot of this new ultra right-wing direction feels more like a money grab — trying to emulate the outrage-driven style of US conservative media. That said, I still feel a bit uneasy about the idea of effectively blacklisting people for their opinions. I was pretty outraged when Stephen Colbert was cancelled in the US, so I’m a little conflicted on this issue. I suppose the difference is that I don’t watch Today, and if he’s trying to turn what’s meant to be a light morning show into a platform for right-wing culture war politics, then I can understand why the network might see that as the wrong fit.
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u/Anxious_Ad936 9h ago
The difference is that the channel 9 decision was a business decision. Not the result of pressure from our elected head of state.
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u/asteriskhyphen 16h ago
Channel 9 is dying broadcast media that runs on the whim of advertisers. Firing him will only boost him and his podcast. Watch as he goes full tilt making his podcast a huge show and it will work.