AUSTRALIA’S NINE TV NETWORK ACCUSED OF BEING A SEXIST BLOKEY CULTURE
December 16th 2007 00:04
A discrimination case beginning in Australia this week will hear accusations against Channel Nine’s veteran news boss John Westacott of offensive and sexist behaviour against female journalists, according to News Ltd’s Sunday tabloids.
The claims are part of an unfair dismissal case by reporter Christine Spiteri who had worked at the network for 13 years and was due to return to work from maternity leave next month.
A female reporter from Nine told News Ltd over the weekend that comments alleged by Spiteri were regularly made at Nine.
Westacott has also been accused of saying the newsroom was no place for women, and that to land on-air jobs females had to be blonde.
Brantz claims she was told by Nine sports bosses that no one on the Australian cricket team wanted to talk to her and that was one of the reasons she had been frozen out of Nine's cricket coverage.
A spokesman for Cricket Australia, Peter Young, told The Age he was not aware of the Australian cricketers having a problem with Brantz.
"They don't have gender concerns," he said.
He said Cricket Australia encouraged broadcasters to include women journalists in their coverage in an effort to lift the number of women watching above its current level of about 35 percent of viewers.
- From MediaBlab
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