There were only ever two reasons to read Crikey.
Guy Rundle and Bernard Keane. Everything else is toilet paper.
Now there is one reason:
Crikey’s correspondent-at-large Guy Rundle has been sacked after he sent a text to ABC Radio saying sexual assault complaints have gone up because “every grope is now a sexual assault”.
Guardian Australia understands the ABC told the publisher of Crikey, Private Media, that the message was one of dozens of “inflammatory” texts sent by the writer on a variety of topics in recent months to the RN Breakfast show, hosted by Patricia Karvelas.
The sexual assault text is the first one Karvelas has read out on air along with his name.
Will Hayward, the chief executive of Private Media, said the comment was appalling and Crikey would no longer be publishing Rundle’s work.
“We were appalled to hear the comment made by Guy Rundle about sexual assault on Radio National yesterday morning,” Hayward told Guardian Australia on Friday night.
“Rundle is a writer with significant talents and a body of insightful and challenging work, but we condemn those kinds of comments and our working relationship has become untenable. Therefore, we will no longer be publishing his work.”
The truth is, Crikey rebranded as Wokey in the last few years and neither Rundle nor Keane are much good any more.
Both have had to trim their acerbic flair. Ironically, Rundle, in particular, abandoned his once close-held class war framework for the censorship of woke.
What a terrible bind it is for the intellectual pygmies of today’s blinkered youth.
Utterly marginalised from the economy of the nation, yet dedicated entirely to supporting the very corporate wokism that is directly responsible.
Wokey be brokey!
