Spoof article on satirical site The Backburner has infuriated journalists from Rupert Murdoch’s Australian mastheads and other media outletsSBS has arrive under fire for running a satirical article online which mocked redundancies at News Corp and suggested the laid-off reporters would now be able to salvage jobs elsewhere as “actual journalists”.
The spoof article was posted on Monday on The Backburner, a satirical site hosted by SBS Comedy. It had no byline and said: “The job cuts are reportedly due to ‘advertising softness’ and negative currency impacts and nothing at all to do with the ever declining quality of the sensationalist garbage News Corp attempt to pass off as print media.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com