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Nine seeks Spiteri case dismissal
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A Federal Court in Sydney will hear an application by the Nine Network to throw out the breach of contract case brought by reporter Christine Spiteri on May 23.
Ms Spiteri, 40, is seeking damages of more than $500,000 under the Trade Practices Act after she was told her contract with the network would expire in March this year.
In her statement of claim, she says she was racially and sexually discriminated against.
She alleged Nine’s news director John Westacott told her: “You should work for SBS, you certainly have the name for it.”
She also alleged Mr Westacott told female journalists “to make it in this industry, you gotta have f***ability. To make it in this game, women have to be f***able”.
Source: AAP / Yahoo
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4 Responses
If the female news reporters are meant to be “f***able*, why don’t they spruce up their reporters? The reporters on primetime news stations, especially Channel Nine, are old and horrendously unattractive. Its a different case for the late-night news though, they certainly have some attractive humans on there.
All the networks are the same behind the scenes, look at the high turnover of reporters, every night a new face.
In fairness to Nine they have stringently denied Spiteri’s alleged claims.
Remember we have only heard one side of the story.
If the claims against Mr Westacott are true, I’d expect his arse to be out the window. Sounds like a complete and utter d!ckhead!