Advertisers drop Southern Cross Austereo over Pauline Hanson backflip
Pauline Hanson and her chief of staff, James Ashby, have taken action against Southern Cross Austereo after the right-wing politician's interview with The Jess Rowe Big Talk Show podcast was removed following a Twitterstorm.
Mr Ashby contacted SCA CEO Grant Blackley and senior staff members to confirm the party would be suspending its campaign, which was scheduled to air in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne.
'The network needs to readdress the way it deals with issues like this,' Mr Ashby said.
'The problem is the interview showed a human side of Pauline that the keyboard warriors who despise everything about her didn't want you to see. But I feel for Jess that she was so hurt by what happened.'
Hanson had appeared on Jessica Rowe's LiSTNR podcast to discuss her time in prison for electoral fraud in 2003, her children, and other lighthearted topics like her favourite tipple
Rowe promoted the podcast on social media as Hanson talking about 'love, raising kids and why she keeps going'.
But the episode soon faced backlash on Twitter, with Australian of the Year Grace Tame accusing Rowe of 'subtly enabling', 'normalising', and 'valorising' Hanson.
Rowe later asked LiSTNR to 'take down the Pauline Hanson interview'.
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Like her or not, Pauline Hanson, has just as much right to be heard as young upstart Grace Tame. Especially when it was a lighthearted interview not involving politics.
It's reprehensible that Jessica Rowe was facing a barrage of hate and possibly a career in tatters from the professional hate brigade on social media.
