Reference :- Chris Kenny used his time slot on Sky News to mock the popular children's program The Wiggles .
Holy cow Chris ! Chewing out a kid's television show might have seemed like a good idea at the time , but have you seen the number of thumbs down you scored from your regular viewers ? And those folk are so right wing that they would have to shift to the left somewhat if they wanted to join the Ku Klux Klan .
At first I couldn't quite grasp why a middle aged man would lambaste a popular and harmless show like The Wiggles . But Ken junior pointed out that The Wiggles is an ABC television show , and your cruel mockery was part of Sky's ongoing war against the public broadcaster .
It's a war that the ABC seems to be winning at present . You will have seen the recent Four Corners show investigating your parent company , Fox News . That must have felt like a broadside from a Dreadnought and you do need to respond strongly . But mocking a kid's show for wanting to " put a smile on the faces of children around the world " is unmanly at best . . And accusing the team at The Wiggles of "virtue signalling " because they hoped children would see themselves reflected in a " gender balanced and racially diverse cast " reeks of desperation .
Ken junior reckons it's unwise to denigrate a gesture by calling it " virtue signalling " when children are involved . The most hardened among us still believe in the innocence of children and the importance of teaching virtue .
Anyway Chris , let's put the whole sorry business behind us . Ken junior may have given it a well deserved place in his Gallery of Lame Journalism , but there are many other Sky News posts in that crammed edifice and yours will be hardly noticed .
Your comrade , Ken .
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