Writer says there has been a cultural shift at the newspapers that ‘I
couldn’t stomach’. Plus: the real reason Stefanovic was fired
One
of the Sydney Morning Herald and Age’s well-known writers on women’s
issues, Clementine Ford, quit in spectacular fashion this week with a
spray against executive editor James Chessell on Twitter for allegedly
protecting his Liberal party allies. Chessell was once a staffer for Joe
Hockey.
Ford, who revealed she had received an official warning in September for calling Scott Morrison a “fucking disgrace” on social media, told Weekly Beast she resigned after seven years because of the “cultural shift” at the newspapers, which are now owned by Nine Entertainment.
Ford, who revealed she had received an official warning in September for calling Scott Morrison a “fucking disgrace” on social media, told Weekly Beast she resigned after seven years because of the “cultural shift” at the newspapers, which are now owned by Nine Entertainment.
Scott Morrison is a fucking disgrace. Always has been, always will be.
Also, here's some tea and I can spill it now that I have resigned from Fairfax: in September, they threatened to fire me because I had called transphobic Scott Morrison a 'fucking disgrace' on Twitter and they said that new policy was we 'didn't disrespect the office of the PM'.
“The site for which I primarily wrote has been moving in a direction I couldn’t stomach, and I felt the new editor had values and a vision that was incompatible with mine,” Ford said. “The words I heard were ‘slick, clean and corporate’. I did consider leaving in September but as a freelancer and primary earner for my family I don’t have the luxury of quitting a job with nothing to go to.” Fairfax sources say Ford was given some unremarkable editorial feedback by the section editor about a column she filed and she surprised everyone by choosing to resign.
Ford said she was not heavily edited in her columns and nothing specific had happened but she felt “heavily watched” because her tweets were being monitored. “It’s a toxic mess there right now,” she said.
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