Star of Daily Telegraph’s ‘new breed of bludger’ expose admits she made it all up
News Corp’s attempt to paint millennials as lazy layabouts, more interested in government payouts than working, has been debunked with one of the women featured in a front-page splash admitting she had lied to The Daily Telegraph.
Last Thursday the paper splashed with an image of Amy Arman and Ashleigh Whiting under the banner ‘A new breed of bludger’, and carried an interview with the pair in which they said they would rather laze about at McDonald’s and go off-roading in their Holden Barina than get jobs.
Thursday’s Daily Telegraph splash
Mumbrella and Media Watch please stop picking on News Corp Papers. Just let them write what they want to write. It’s lovely entertainment and no real harm is done. Im sure no one who works there thinks its journalism – it’s all just a good laugh. Leave them alone.
What?
this is a joke, right?
Not the first time it’s happened, won’t be the last.
This story hit the front page of The Courier Mail years back…it was entirely based on a few emails – all completely unsubstantiated. The bloke sending the emails knowingly stitched the journo up not thinking they would actually send it to print.
http://www.couriermail.com.au/.....5702921242
of course the DT never bothered to check the veracity of this girl’s ridiculous (and obviously made up) comments. They were a perfect fit for the DT’s highly-predictable political agenda, and a catchy headline that I’m quite sure they had written before they actually interviewed anyone.
Why not ask how that ‘story’ made it front page in the first place without any kind of background checking of facts?
If that’s not worth asking, then please stop referring to the writers’ as ‘journalists’ or the paper as ‘news’.
Lol! A kid did this to Four Corners once. Quite hilarious. Certain staff at Four Corners take themselves a little too seriously. Maybe they should listen to the PR person. 😉
Also happened to Today Tonight a few years back
http://www.smh.com.au/entertai.....2fy17.html
Geez…the Paxton’s story is from 20 years ago now. Time is getting away.
Well if the journo gets the flick from News Corp I’m sure they’ll pick up a gig at The Onion.com
Did the author of this story confirm the dad’s claim with McDonalds?
Or is it the pot calling the kettle black?
But how and when will a section of the public stop buying it?
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