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Boned Reporter Claims Nine Riddled With Sexism; Somewhere, A Mini-skirted Shelley Craft Says "Not So!"
Posted by Clem Bastow at 9:51 AM on February 26, 2008
Remember Channel Nine reporter Christine Spiteri's ongoing battle with the network? It's still going!
Spiteri is planning to blow the lid off Nine's alleged climate of sexism and the sorts of industry dealings you would've thought went out in the days when Les Paterson was considered a work of cutting non-fiction - by suing Nine for damages.
Female journalists at the Nine Network were discussed as "sex objects", according to documents filed in a $560,000 damages claim by dumped reporter Christine Spiteri.She wouldn't be the first to wonder whether Nine's gender politics were a bit off, as this stirring Photoshop job from News Ltd last December suggests.Documents with the Federal Court yesterday reveal the network's head of news John Westacott allegedly told female journalists: "To make it in this game, women have to be f...able."
Spiteri, 40, was told while on maternity leave her contract, which expires next month, would not be renewed.
She lodged a complaint last December with the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, alleging she was the victim of discrimination on the grounds of sex, race and her parental responsibilities.
After all, you don't hear phrases like "boning" emerge from totally right-on, gender neutral, forward-thinking workplaces, do you?
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