Liberal senator Sarah Henderson, backed by Sky News, demands the ABC ‘shut down’ John Lyons for his analysis. Plus: pity the Mail’s Jackie O reporter
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When it comes to waging war on the ABC there are no stronger comrades in arms than the Liberal senator Sarah Henderson and News Corp outlets. The mutually reinforcing views of the journalist turned politician and the Murdoch press are uncanny.
Henderson’s call for the ABC’s managing director, Hugh Marks, to “shut down” the Americas editor, John Lyons, over his live analysis on the ABC News channel of the Australian government’s response to the US and Israel launching airstrikes on Iran is a case in point.