In the last week Channel 10 was exposed at the Bruce Lehrmann trial for lying and deceiving the public and courts, News Corp propagandist Janet Albrechtsen’s personal relationship with corrupt former judge Walter Sofronoff was exposed further and the Kerry Stokes’ controlled and financed Ben Roberts-Smith defamation case was being appealed.
When major public interest court cases are being reported on by media companies that have skin in the game there is one certainty and that is the truth is being hidden by those same media companies.
In the below video myself, Serkan Ozturk from True Crime News Weekly and Sahar Khalili discuss the 3 matters and the contempt proceedings against YouTuber Glenn Logan with the focus on the Bruce Lehrmann and Shane Drumgold matters. (For transparency Sahar Khalili is the former president of political party Fusion Party Australia)
Channel 10’s CEO Beverley McGarvey exposed for being corrupt
Justice Michael Lee reserved his judgment in Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation case against Channel 10 and journalist Lisa Wilkinson but on Tuesday and Wednesday (13/2/24 to 14/2/24) there was a hearing to deal with a dispute between Channel 10 and Lisa Wilkinson over who will pay for Wilkinson’s separate legal representation.
Channel 10 folded on the second day and said they no longer disputed they had to pay for Lisa Wilkinson’s separate lawyer and barrister, but they disputed the amount.
But the biggest revelation at the hearing was that Channel 10 had been withholding key evidence from the public and courts about the fact that they had given Lisa Wilkinson the green light to give her infamous Logies award speech on the 19th of June 2022. That speech led to Justice Lucy McCallum delaying the Bruce Lehrmann rape trial for 3 months.
Lisa Wilkinson had taken all the blame for giving the speech which led to the delay in the Lehrmann rape trial and there were calls for Wilkinson to be charged with contempt of court, including by this website, for breaching sub judice law.
The hearing heard this week, “As Wilkinson told the court, the Logies speech had been approved “at the highest levels of the network” and lauded as “beautiful” in a text from Ten chief executive Beverley McGarvey at 11.07pm that night. She was told the speech was “all good” with Tasha Smithies, Ten’s senior litigation counsel.”
Lisa Wilkinson’s evidence of the speech being approved was confirmed by Tasha Smithies when she gave evidence. (Click here to read more)
Channel 10 had been hiding behind a claim for legal privilege, for the advice they gave Lisa Wilkinson approving the Logies speech, and refused to tell the public, the ACT Supreme Court, the ACT Inquiry and the Federal Court of Australia during Lehrmann’s defamation case that Channel 10 had approved and legalled the Logies speech.
The reason Channel 10 were hiding the truth is because Channel 10 CEO Beverley McGarvey and 10’s senior litigation counsel Tasha Smithies had approved the speech which meant both were liable to be charged with contempt of court and should have been sacked by Channel 10’s owner Paramount Global.
It is a mystery why Channel 10 abandoned its claim for legal privilege and allowed it to be revealed that Channel 10 had approved the Logies speech but maybe they were forced to by head office in the US because trying to avoid paying Lisa Wilkinson’s legal fees was viewed as more important.
Based on the new admission by Channel 10 it meant that Lisa Wilkinson should not have been taking all the blame for the speech.
But as Justice Lee said in court during the week, “a first year law student shouldn’t have approved the speech” and he also said “a first year journalism student shouldn’t have given the speech”.
It raises the question of why did Lisa Wilkinson, with the support of Channel 10, go hard after former ACT Director of Public Prosecutions Shane Drumgold trying to blame him for not stopping Wilkinson giving the Logies speech. (I will do a video on the Kangaroo Court of Australia YouTube channel during the next week trying to answer that question)
News Corp’s Janet Albrechtsen’s personal relationship with corrupt former judge Walter Sofronoff
Walter Sofronoff’s relationship with News Corp propagandist Janet Albrechtsen has been exposed further this week at the Shane Drumgold hearing where it was proven that Sofronoff had 273 interactions with Janet Albrechtsen over seven months during his time as the chairperson of the ACT Board of Inquiry.
The 273 interactions include Janet Albrechtsen flying from Melbourne to Brisbane for a private lunch meeting with Walter Sofronoff. The true number of interactions would be a lot higher as I don’t think they subpoenaed phone records and emails etc from Albrechtsen.
You have to wonder if Janet Albrechtsen co-authored the ACT Board of Inquiry report with Walter Sofronoff. Whatever the case, the ACT Board of Inquiry report is so tainted it needs to be binned and another Inquiry instituted.
I published an article on the 1st of February 2024 titled “Corrupt judge Walter Sofronoff and his close personal relationship with News Corp’s Janet Albrechtsen” which has the background information. (Click here to read more)
Channel 7’s Kerry Stokes and Ben Roberts-Smith
Ben Roberts-Smith’s appeal against his defamation case loss was heard last week and this week and is now awaiting a judgement from the 3 appeal court judges. (Click here to read more)
The appeal as well as the original defamation hearing has been funded personally by Kerry Strokes but only after he was busted financing it through Seven West Media. Using Seven West Media’s shareholders money to pay for Ben Roberts-Smith’s defamation case is financial fraud and Kerry Stokes and the other SWM directors should be charged for that crime.
As we discussed in the above video Kerry Stokes also paid for witnesses who colluded to give false evidence so it is arguable that Kerry Stokes should also be charged with contempt of court etc.
Above you have evidence of Seven West Media (Channel 7), News Corp and Channel 10 all being involved in corrupting public interest court cases and inquiries. What will happen to them? Nothing.
But the good news is that the public have woken up which helps explain why old media companies are struggling financially. For example Seven West Media’s profits were down 53 per cent in their latest half-year results and if that keeps up they won’t be around much longer.
I could have also mentioned the ABC’s latest court troubles which seems to involve interference by Chairperson Ita Buttrose to have journalist Antoinette Lattouf sacked. But I focused on the 3 matters that had hearings over the last week and involved obvious criminal interference in court cases by the 3 media companies named.
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Those same names keep popping up, scandal after scandal and the old media look away, political desire to take action against these grubs=none whatsoever, seems more important to protect their club of undesirables.
Mainstream journalism used to tend to challenge the powers-that-be in order to truly comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable in an increasingly unjust global existence. Now, so much of it has become a profession motivated more by a regular company paycheck and frequently published name/face with stories or opinions. Indeed, a buck and a byline.
Also troubling is that mainstream news-outlet websites, including The Washington Post’s, are increasingly converting to ‘pay-to-say’ formats, where the reader is allowed to consume the article without charge but must buy a subscription in order to comment on the article.
Meantime, there still are reporters and editors who will reply to accusations of subjective journalism with, ‘Who, me? I’m just the messenger.’ Whatever the news media may be, they’re not ‘just the messenger’; nor are they but a reflection of the community in which they circulate.
As one who has consumed the news regularly since the late 1980s, I’d say the field of journalism has problematically become overly corporatized thus more readily externally manipulated and compromised.
In closing, I always say: Genuine journalists with integrity would tender their resignations and publicly proclaim they can no longer help propagate their employer’s corrupt media product, be it from the Right or Left. They’d definitely not excuse themselves with: ‘but I have a spouse and kids to feed!’, as though they were forced into coupling, copulating and procreating.
Great stuff. Refreshing honesty. Thanks all.
They are a pack of dogs, But i truly think Mr Justice Lee will sort these grubs out especially lehrrman
If Justice Lee believes “a first year law student shouldn’t have approved the speech”, he should refer Tasha Smithies for disciplinary action.
I appreciate all the work you do, esp in pursuing alleged rapist Bruce Lehrmann. I want to see him behind bars. He is one helluva protected alleged rapist.
I cannot believe there have been and are still so many spun webs.
I cannot believe that there are indeed so many spiders, dancing on these webs.
“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.” Jonathon Swift
Good work KCA!