Caleb Bond,16, loses gig as fill-in columnist for Andrew Bolt and, and speaking of,guess whose radio ratings on 2GB and 3AW are dropping like a stone?Chris Dore arrived at the Daily Telegraph this week to rob the reins from Paul Whittaker who has gone downstairs at News Corp’s Holt Street headquarters to edit the Australian. In a Q&A with Mumbrella, Dore said his prediction for the media industry in 2016 was “the demise of Twitter”, and which sound rather like wishful thinking to us. But it would appear Dore had the demise of someone elses career hopes at front of mind. The first casualty of his editorship appears to be young Caleb Bond. whether you’re not a Twitter regular you probably haven’t heard of Bond,but he is a 16-year-old conservative commentator who has found mentors online in rightwingers Miranda Devine, Paul Murray and Joe Hildebrand and gained himself a bit of a profile. He has written a couple of pieces for the News Corp tabloids and earlier this month appeared on Hildebrand’s Studio 10 morning show on Network Ten where he was hailed as the show’s youngest guest panellist. Bond was doing so well that he was to have started a semi-regular column in the Daily Telegraph on Thursday, and filling in for none other than Andrew Bolt who has taken time off to fabricate (to make up, invent) an ABC TV show I Can Change Your Mind approximately Recognition. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com