Karl Stefanovic might have torn strips off The Daily Mail on ‘The Today Show‘ this morning for their staggeringly bad yarn strongly inferring a drunken, scandalous relationship between himself and a Channel Nine colleague, but they’re not mad about it all. They’re laughing, actually.
“Fact: this was work. We were filming a story about our struggling prawn farmers – they deserve a rum or two.”“The producer pictured on the website is a committed, talented, hard-working and totally professional young woman, and not deserving of this cheap, lazy, sexist online slur.”“A young woman who has spent the past hours in tears, because of the hurtful and false way she has been portrayed by this website.”
But in response, the Daily Mail has attempted to go on the front foot, spinning Karl’s criticism of them into a sarcastic, self-righteous story that refuses to acknowledge their own missteps.
“A Channel Nine spokesperson told Daily Mail Australia on Thursday that Stefanovic was in Yamba ‘filming a story about the crisis in the prawn industry for the Today show.’ This was carried prominently alongside the pictures.
Yet Stefanovic bizarrely suggested the pictures were an attack on women because he was carrying the rum cans before entering the caravan park with his female colleague.”
The bulk of the yarn is then “backed up” by reposting truly unhinged comments from the bowels of social media, held up as evidence that they couldn’t possibly have done anything wrong.
“On Friday morning, he insisted he and his colleague were there for work, despite nobody having suggested otherwise.”
Except, y’know, they absolutely did.
.@TheTodayShow host @karlstefanovic has slammed the @DailyMailAU for this article. Accusing the site of lies and constant woman shaming pic.twitter.com/L1mniwmVaV
— Nova 969 News (@Nova969News) June 1, 2017
The article’s lead image has also been altered, removing the image of Karl with his Channel Nine colleague that, while not explicitly stating it, supported their strong suggestion that something was happening between the two.
