The dread spectre of
Sewshel Justise has come to haunt my land down under, the conservative papers, telly stations and blogosphere and their respective readership/viewership/troll hordes have been having
a bit of a tanty over Lee Lin Chin and Waleed Aly getting awards in the annual local TV circlejerk known as the Logie awards.
Why? Look at their names.
Waleed Aly.
Lee Lin Chin.
Quizzed as to why his co-host Lisa Wilkinson didn’t get a nod for the award, Karl Stefanovic professed a simple explanation. “Lisa’s too white,” the man most famous for once being drunk at work told radio host Ben Fordham. “I got a spray tan and everything and still didn’t make it,” Wilkinson chimed. In the charming banter around those comments, Stefanovic also joked that despite being white ‘on the outside’, he was “dark on the inside”. Fordham hailed him a trailblazer. Channel Nine subsequently denied Wilkinson’s comments were about race.
In case you think that Aussie opposition to non alabaster peeps winning a meaningless telly trophy was just kidding around Sydney Murdoch tabloid the Daily Telegraph has been running an ongoing investigation into these suspiciously non-Aryan paperweight winners.
Embracing the spirit of investigative journalism, Sydney tabloid The Daily Telegraph has been leading the charge against Aly’s nomination, letting unnamed “TV Insiders” attack him and Lee Lin Chin. Thankfully, the hard-working hacks at the News Corp publication were able to grant anonymity to these regular Edward Snowdens. So why did the valiant whistleblowers single out the two non-white nominees for criticism? Apparently because Aly and Lee Lin Chin’s programs don’t have the highest ratings. “The thing with the Logies these days is it’s nothing to do with how popular the show is but how well you run an online campaign or how much traction a show has on social media,” one complained...The problem is, the next day the Tele’s opinion portal Rendez View published a piece titled ‘Six reasons why Waleed Aly should not win Gold’.
Reason number six? “He’s not on social media.”
Their position on while off social media simultaneously is the problem, what part of that don't you understand. It's the Schrödinger's cat of social media campaigns.
Ah Australia, just when you Americans thought you had the market in panicky shitfit throwing conservatives cornered with The Drumpf and his fanboys.
