Lured in by Albo ‘slur’, News24 misses the joke and mistakes comedy skit for real news report | Weekly Beast

Comedian says he didn’t expect Murdoch network to be ‘as gullible and digitally illiterate as their target audience’. Plus: Karl Stefanovic falls silentWant to get this in your inbox every Friday? Sign up for the Weekly Beast media newsletter hereThere’s nothing worse than being left out of a joke. At News24, though, they didn’t get it in the first place. The presenter James Macpherson kicked an own goal this week, presenting a satirical video as an authentic Seven News segment while hosting The...

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