Jeff Kennett joins Seven
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Former Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett has been hired by Seven as a National Political Commentator.
Kennett served 23 years in the Victorian parliament and was a colourful premier from 1992-1999. He has also been chairman of national depression initiative Beyond Blue, and President of the Hawthorn Football Club.
He will provide political commentary and analysis for Seven News and Sunrise as well as joining Seven’s panel on election night.
“I look forward to the opportunity to make comment on national politics without fear or favour, in layman’s language, and on a constructive basis, with Channel Seven,” he said.
Rob Raschke, Seven’s Network Director of News, said: “’Jeff’s a genuinely national figure who has strong views and calls it as he sees it. Whether you agree with him or not, you always know where he stands and he’ll be a great addition to our political coverage.”
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I don’t know how he is going to be very neutral in his political commentating being a former liberal Premier & would assume he is still a member of the Liberal Party. There was a time long long ago when people in the media had to be neutral and weren’t allowed to show preference to one political party over another. Doesn’t seem to be the case these days.
Employing Kennett isn’t pandering to Melbourne. Most of us here hate him. It’s the rest of the country that seem to like him, because they didn’t have to live under his government.
The assembly of one eyed political propagandist continues by all Networks, and leads one to ask, just what do the networks expect in return, or just what have they been already promised?.
To Darcey09’s comment, well the Brisbane and Sydney Markets are smaller than the Melbourne Market, where the home of television in Australia is, to put it into context, the AFL racket in $425,000,000 Million according to an article in The Age I’d say that this is why they pander to AFL States and give the bigger budgets to them.
one more reason not to watch Seven
All this pandering to Melbourne doesn’t seem to be working. Other than seeing ratings decline in Sydney & Brisbane.
So he’s a national political commentator? I guess that makes sense he’s always thought Australia began and ended with Victoria.
When I saw this headline on twitter I thought the article was going to tell me that he’d been hired as an ‘expert’ for their AFL coverage.
I was of the opinion that 7’s AFL had sunk to the lowest it could go, but now I see that there is another step lower.