Anthony Albanese with Seven West Media chair Kerry Stokes (Image: AAP/Lukas Coch) If you thought Nine’s television arm was a toxic workplace riddled with sexual harassment and bullying and the use of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) to silence victims of powerful male predators, Four Corners ‘ Louise Milligan had a surprise for you yesterday: the Seven Network is a flaming bin fire where multiple predators and bullies have treated staff — usually women — with contempt, and done so while protected by the use of NDAs. To repeat a point made in relation to Nine, either you’re in the journalism business, or you use NDAs to silence victims of harassment, assault and bullying. You can’t do both.
Admittedly, it’s long been clear that Seven was no longer a credible journalistic outlet: its embrace of rapists and war criminals and its platforming of neo-Nazis and racists obliterated whatever small dribbles of public interest journalism leaked out by accident from its operations. Its primary output, journalistically speaking, has been to try to undermine the journalism of other outlets. But its documented use of NDAs to gag staff, and especially female victims of what is clearly a misogynistic culture of harassment and bullying, seals the deal: Seven has nothing to do with credible journalism.
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