9:51AM Clem Bastow | Avid SBS viewers will have noticed that figurehead news presenter Mary Kostakidis has been missing from the news desk for the past week or so, but it was only a few days ago that word
emerged that was not merely taking a break and she had in fact left in protest:
She is understood to have stormed out of the newsroom a week and a half ago and hasn’t turned up for work since.
She is said to be furious at changes to the news bulletin, which she believes undermine SBS standards.
However, continuing on a theme noted by the SMH, last night Australia’s favourite televisual tabloid,
A Current Affair, speculated that the changes to SBS’s modus operandi were only one cause of Kostakidis’ upset.
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