7.30 host Leigh Sales has taken to Twitter to share the horrifying abuse she received online following her interview with Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Tuesday night.
Sales said it was just a “fraction” of the “non-stop” and “sexualised abuse” she receives whenever she interviews the prime minister.
She said: “As I sometimes do to keep a spotlight on this, I just spent a few minutes collecting a fraction of the sexualised abuse I get every time I interview a Prime Minister – female politicians, journalists, public figures get this non-stop.”
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Sales was called a “rude bitch”, “whore” and “in desperate need of a vibrator” by online trolls.
She was attacked for being both too hard and too soft on Morrison, with another user suggesting Sales “sits on his lap whenever she ‘interviews’ him”.
Fellow journalists and other Twitter users backed Sales, including WPP chief customer officer Sunita Gloster.
Keep calling it out @leighsales. We’re behind you. Punch 🤛
— Sunita Gloster AM (@sunitagloster) July 23, 2020
So revolting. Reporting 'em, and if I ever see them I'll fart in their general direction.
Feel perhaps the worst thing is how unnecessarily time-wasting, energy-draining and soul-depleting this stuff gets.
— Benjamin Law 羅旭能 (@mrbenjaminlaw) July 22, 2020