ABC’s Chris Uhlmann to replace Nine’s Laurie Oakes
Nine has appointed ABC’s Chris Uhlmann as the network’s chief political editor.
It comes a month after Nine’s longstanding political editor, Laurie Oakes, confirmed his retirement after 33 years in the role.
Uhlmann has big shoes to fill as he replaces Laurie Oakes
I think he’s a bloody good journo, but he was, like a lot of good journos, a bit thin skinned when he copped it over wind and the power outage in S.A. he was a bloodhound in search of a body, and decided early on what the body was going to be.
I wish I knew why journalists sui generis find it so hard to say “yea.. maybe I got that one a bit twisted” because he really insisted he’d said not one thing wrong, out of place or intemperate. Not.one.thing. c’mon be real here. Nothing? Seriously?
Life tells me, that nobody’s perfect. Even journalists need to accept the can get it wrong.
ABC will be a net loser twice over. Once because they lose a very accomplished operative. And again because come hell or high water, the Murdoch press will use it as a stick to belabour them with.