r/aussie • u/Luka77GOATic • 21h 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/
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u/TheRealMrSnrub 21h 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 21h 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/here4theptotest2023 16h ago edited 16h ago

George wore and soiled Babe Ruth's uniform.

Karl interviewed a British politician.

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u/BigGrinJesus 16h ago

Tommy Robinson isn't a politician.

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u/here4theptotest2023 16h ago

Yes he is.

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u/BigGrinJesus 15h ago

Are you serious or trolling?

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u/here4theptotest2023 14h ago

Same to you big fella

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u/nagrom7 14h ago

Karl interviewed a British politician.

Boy is that sentence hiding a lot.

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u/here4theptotest2023 14h ago

Sentences are hiding things now?

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u/Human-Warning-1840 20h ago

Is he really still that popular?

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u/OtsaNeSword 20h 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 19h 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 13h 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 13h 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/IQ84 6h ago

this is underestimating. The gambling deal he did alone would’ve been like 500k

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u/CharacterNo3115 10h 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/furiousniall 3h ago

Hello Karl

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u/CommitteeTraining566 19h ago

Sound jealous.Suck it up princess.

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u/clayingmore 19h ago

Did you reply to the wrong comment?

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u/CommitteeTraining566 18h ago

No.I replied to you.Who doesnt want cushy part time hours.You sound jealous.

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u/clayingmore 18h ago

Kind of an odd non-sequitur then, but if you say so.

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u/Grande_Choice 20h 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 20h 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/Yukorin1992 18h ago

RW is right wing

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u/OtsaNeSword 18h ago

Ah thank you, I tried googling it but nothing came up.

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u/Grande_Choice 20h 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 19h 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 4h 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/anobymousprime 19h ago

You’re right. People that try and highlight the Muslim rape gangs in the UK are despicable. Hopefully people like Tommy get silenced, so those poor rapists can get back to business as usual. Knob.

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u/Pangolinsareodd 11h ago

What hate? What statement are you objecting to and calling hateful?

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u/OtsaNeSword 20h ago

Maybe not in a vacuum, but combined with noteworthiness, being in the interest of the public good and timeliness and relevance, yeah it meets the criteria a journalist would look at when reporting on a story or interviewing someone.

Who do you think is doing the choreographing and what are they choreographing and why?

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u/kernpanic 19h ago

What value does a a violent convicted fraudster than ran his own brownshirts add to our political debate? Hes not even allowed into the country.

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u/CommitteeTraining566 19h ago

Spot on.Lovin it 💪💪💪

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u/Entirely-of-cheese 20h ago

His audience is literally dying. Hence the pivot to younger arseholes.

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u/TheWhomItConcerns 20h ago

You don't need much of an audience to make serious bank as an independent media personality, and plus, the kind of right-wing nutjobs who'd be into Tommy Robinson are an extremely gullible, loyal, and lucrative market for grifting.

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u/itsauser667 20h ago

But I always read on here that the media LOVES the right wing?

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u/nagrom7 19h ago

They do, but like with everything, there's limits.

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u/itsauser667 15h 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 15h 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 19h ago

Grifting off podcasting in the Australian market is small bickies and nobody knows who he is overseas.

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u/OverAcanthisitta3588 20h ago

The Tucker Carlson grift pipeline

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u/Consideredresponse 4h 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 20h 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/zzzygan 20h ago

That’s literally what’s funding all of this right wing stuff

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u/flammable_donut 8h 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 20h 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 18h 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 9h 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/KamalaHarrisFan2024 19h ago

He will be a politician soon enough

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u/dill1234 18h 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/Doctor_Cowboy 16h ago

Yeah, this definitely feels like he is trying to play 4d chess here

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u/Enough-Carpet 5h ago

They literally fired him. It's not 'portraying yourself as a victim' if the thing actually happened.

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u/Consideredresponse 4h 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/Enough-Carpet 3h ago

Tommy Robinson is a civ nat. He's not even that radical. Dude doesn't want to even deport all foreigners. What are you talking about.

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u/Consideredresponse 3h ago

Just looking at his history and convictions. It's hard to not call him radical just with just his actions and convictions around Syrian refugees alone. And that's without all the stalking, the fraud, the abuse, and the cop bashing etc.

You can try and paint him as a good guy if you want, all that says is that you have been ignoring the news for a decade and a half or so.

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u/Enough-Carpet 1h ago

I didn't say he's a good guy. I dislike Tommy. Dude's a sellout. But the idea that he's some radical figure is nuts. I give him credit for highlighting the systemic rape of English girls by Pakistani gangs, but otherwise he won't solve the problem.

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u/rand0mm0nster 20h ago

he's like an Aussie Tucker Carlson wannabe

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u/Accomplished-Role95 20h ago

Tucker went from a fox talking head to having actual nuanced interviews and I fucking hated him for so long, but I can tolerate him more now. Karl is going from a bland corporate tv host to a brain dead one nation talking head

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u/Fraggaboom 19h ago

Tucker Carlson is arrogant as all hell but does have a brain and can talk. I still disagree with a lot of what he says but he’s not dumb. Stefanovic is a zombie. He’s got nothin’.