'I compromised my values and beliefs to stand idly by as I watched commentators and pundits instill more and more fear into their viewers,' the former Sky News employee wrote.
A Muslim woman has quit her job at one of Australia's top news channels following the New Zealand mosque attacks, saying she can no longer work for a company that pushes the “polarization and paranoia” of its viewers.
“I realized pretty quickly though that the Sky News I worked on wasn't focused on reporting facts and informing the public,” she wrote in an editorial for ABC. “Rather, conservative media commentators came together with current and former right-wing politicians, disseminating misinformation which bordered on conspiracies.
Farrukh then listed a number of interviews she witnessed, including politician Cory Bernardi advocating a burqa ban and Senator Pauline Hanson pushing for an “It's OK to Be White" motion to be passed in Parliament. "This weekend, though, I realised that where we get our start matters too. Over the past few years, I was playing a role —no matter how small—in a network whose tone I knew would help legitimise radical views present in the fringes of our society," Farrukh wrote.
“With SKY NZ’s agreement, we took the pre-emptive and precautionary step to switch our live news feed to sports coverage early Friday evening to ensure any live coverage or commentary taking place in Australia, outside of the NZ jurisdiction, does not impact the unfolding events in NZ. News sites, including MailOnline, were heavily criticized for running outplay videos online of the mosque attack on the day of the shooting. According to The Guardian, Australian news networks Channel Seven and Nine are under investigation after broadcasting the Facebook shooting video from inside the mosque.
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