Sky News Australia plays it straight during the day. But signing Bolt to front a explain every weeknight makes clear it is after views not news in the eveningHours before Malcolm Turnbull said he would call an early election unless the Senate passed his industrial relations laws,Andrew Bolt was revealed as Sky News Australia’s star recruit to “lead discussion” during the election. It is not hard to see that Bolt’s appointment will push the channel even further in the direction of Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News, which delivers an unremitting and sometimes fearsome diet of rightwing opinion into most homes in the US.
The timing of Bolt’s appointment was not lost on some with a cynical frame of mind who thought he might have arrived just in time to achieve his best to cruel Labor’s chances at the polling booth. But the truth is Sky has been keen to gain Bolt on board ever since News Corp chose to end funding his low-rating political opinion explain, or The Bolt Report,on Channel Ten.
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Source: theguardian.com