Today’s Royal Commission into Bill Shorten’s union days is off to a bad start, with the media’s seating positions prioritising BuzzFeed over the ABC.
7:30 anchor Leigh Sales arrived to the Commission to see she was seated behind listicle site BuzzFeed Australia.
Here is the Twitter spat:
We’ve arrived at #TURCShorten and sorry @leighsales if we block your view. pic.twitter.com/7Skdh6Veg9
— BuzzFeedOz Politics (@BuzzFeedOzPol) July 7, 2015
Modern media pecking order “@BuzzFeedOzPol: We’ve arrived at #TURCShorten – sorry @leighsales if we block your view. pic.twitter.com/P5imeuwuYo”
— Leigh Sales (@leighsales) July 7, 2015
The best thing about sitting behind @BuzzFeedOzPol is doing this ping @markdistef pic.twitter.com/7TLRX2FFSa
— Leigh Sales (@leighsales) July 7, 2015
In your FACE @buzzfeedozpol “@TrendsSydney: Leigh Sales, @leighsales is now trending in #Sydney http://t.co/ETV3ARaea0”
— Leigh Sales (@leighsales) July 8, 2015
BuzzFeed Australia‘s breaking news reporter replied:
@leighsales LEIGH WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU??
— Mark Di Stefano (@MarkDiStef) July 8, 2015
