Following the departure of Barrie Cassidy from ABC’s Insiders program, many feel that Insiders is no longer the same program it once was, so The Shot launched The Sunday Shot.
Today, from 9am join Jo Dyer and Dave Milner with @punterspolitics.bsky.social and @crikey.com.au with Zee Feed’s Crystal Andrews plus interviews with guests Damon Gameau and @dutyofcarecampaign.bsky.social‘s Anjali Sharma.
The hard-working team at The Shot decided to launch The Sunday Shot to fill the gap they, and many others, feel was left following Cassidy’s departure from Insiders.
The Shot’s Jo Dyer and Dave Milner are joined live each Sunday at 9am AEDT by a roster of Australia’s best independent journalists and thinkers to discuss what’s been happening this week in politics.
When Cassidy was on Insiders he’d hold politicians to account, when politicians tried to ‘spin it’, Cassidy knew it and he didn’t accept bullshit answers and went straight back to his original question. Today’s Insiders host David Speers, does no such thing and simply goes along with whatever the politicians say, without them answering the questions.
I’m sure the politicians are grateful they only have to answer to Speers now, as Cassidy would (and did) ask much tougher questions and didn’t let politicians ‘spin it’ and simply read out questions provided by politicians’ PR teams like Speers clearly does today.
People want actual interviews, and politicians – our representatives – to be held to account. Cassidy held politicians to account on Insiders. Speers simply does not.
Unlike the well-renumerated journalists at the major outlets, the team at The Shot are hard-working journalists, commentators and authors putting it all together on a shoestring budget, or to use Australian slang – the team at The Shot are “tying up with wire and keeping the show on the road.”
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