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Sharri Markson calls Uhlmann’s attack ‘disgusting and outrageous’.

Chris Uhlmann
Chris Uhlmann has accused commentators of becoming political actors in the Liberal party leadership crisis. Photograph: ABC/Insiders

When Nine’s chief political correspondent, Chris Uhlmann, said News Corp and 2GB’s Alan Jones and Ray Hadley were “bullies” and “players” who were “waging a war” on Malcolm Turnbull, prominent media players agreed with him, including ABC 7.30’s Laura Tingle and the Conversation’s Michelle Grattan.

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Uhlmann: “If they are making phone calls to people trying to push people over the line, then they’re part of the story.
“They’re among the biggest bullies in the land and it’s about time that people called them out for what they are.”
On the ABC, Tingle said parts of the News Corp stable had been running a campaign against Turnbull and that MPs had been directly lobbied by Jones and Peta Credlin, one of the stars of the after dark lineup on Sky News, and former chief of staff to Tony Abbott.
The response from Rupert Murdoch’s troops was immediate. Andrew Bolt, Chris Kenny and Sharri Markson all weighed in, with Markson going head to head with Uhlmann on Channel Nine.
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Uhlmann: “They are turning Liberal-National Party voters into One Nation voters after dark.”
Kenny said the accusations were paranoid, desperate and a media conspiracy, and Bolt said they were a “bizarre channelling of Turnbull’s paranoia”.
“Sky really is spooking those ABC types, forcing them to say all kinds of untruths,” Bolt said.