Bolt is a troll

[DaRick]

I thought that he was more of a cynical shock jock than a real right-wing acolyte.

Maybe I was wrong, given that his melt was a real Saturday Night Special.

 

[Happy Mastenator]

I for one think that the LNP should listen to Bolt. He's a known winner!

 

[Ballarat Bob]

He had much more influence before social media took off . Old school newspaper columnist who used to get a lot more attention when the Herald Sun used to shift decent numbers of papers. Like Alan Jones and talkback radio that used to have a lot of influence social media changed everything and they never have pivoted to it (or unwilling to) They got left behind and only appeal to their legacy audience.
Comes out with all the standard right wing crap but is a bit more subtle than the more hysterical cheerleaders on Sky News.

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

The LEFT believe that people like Bolt are enigmatic beings that lurk in the dark places of the world. They want to stifle opinion, they really don't know what someone like Bolt wants? Why do they do what they do and how to make them stop? It all falls on deaf ears no matter what he says. There is no debate and there are those who don't want to hear the truth, they don't want their illusions destroyed. You give them an inch, they take a mile, then spit in your face and call you a bunch of words ending in either ist or phobe. It’s hard to have conversations with people of the far LEFT who are so head strong and refuse to hear others opinions, it's agree with them or be ostracised, there is no middle ground.

Bump.

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

From today's Guardian:

Buried in the documents filed by Sky News Australia in defence of a defamation claim brought by the lawyer Adam Houda is a rare full disclosure of how many people watch The Bolt Report across all Sky platforms.

Here is the rundown of Bolt’s audience.

For the 7pm broadcast on Foxtel on the night the allegedly defamatory comments were made (23 January 2024) there was an average audience of 57,000.

For a rough comparison, Bolt is up against ABC News and Nine’s A Current Affair in the 7pm time slot. Both free-to-air shows usually have up to 1 million viewers.

On Sky News Regional, Bolt picked up another 43,900 and Sky News Now had 10,100 streams.

On Foxtel’s streaming platform the program had an average audience of 4,600 with 250 video-on-demand streams.

On the Flash service there were 757 streams and an additional 48 on the Sky News website.

 

[nut]

From today's Guardian:

Buried in the documents filed by Sky News Australia in defence of a defamation claim brought by the lawyer Adam Houda is a rare full disclosure of how many people watch The Bolt Report across all Sky platforms.

Here is the rundown of Bolt’s audience.

For the 7pm broadcast on Foxtel on the night the allegedly defamatory comments were made (23 January 2024) there was an average audience of 57,000.

For a rough comparison, Bolt is up against ABC News and Nine’s A Current Affair in the 7pm time slot. Both free-to-air shows usually have up to 1 million viewers.

On Sky News Regional, Bolt picked up another 43,900 and Sky News Now had 10,100 streams.

On Foxtel’s streaming platform the program had an average audience of 4,600 with 250 video-on-demand streams.

On the Flash service there were 757 streams and an additional 48 on the Sky News website.

 

[Happy Mastenator]

From today's Guardian:

Buried in the documents filed by Sky News Australia in defence of a defamation claim brought by the lawyer Adam Houda is a rare full disclosure of how many people watch The Bolt Report across all Sky platforms.

Here is the rundown of Bolt’s audience.

For the 7pm broadcast on Foxtel on the night the allegedly defamatory comments were made (23 January 2024) there was an average audience of 57,000.

For a rough comparison, Bolt is up against ABC News and Nine’s A Current Affair in the 7pm time slot. Both free-to-air shows usually have up to 1 million viewers.

On Sky News Regional, Bolt picked up another 43,900 and Sky News Now had 10,100 streams.

On Foxtel’s streaming platform the program had an average audience of 4,600 with 250 video-on-demand streams.

On the Flash service there were 757 streams and an additional 48 on the Sky News website.

Half of those are probably tv's that are set on sky news permanently in places like airports/hotels etc.,

The impact that fringe loonies have on Sky After Dark is completely outsized given how many actually watch.

 

[schneebly111]

The impact that fringe loonies have on Sky After Dark is completely outsized given how many actually watch.

As several Liberal insiders have said - the fringe loonies watching Sky are generally Liberal branch members. Sky sets the agenda, Liberal members choose the candidates based off that agenda

 

[nut]

This is getting more views.

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

Half of those are probably tv's that are set on sky news permanently in places like airports/hotels etc.,

The impact that fringe loonies have on Sky After Dark is completely outsized given how many actually watch.

Sometimes I suspect it’s more the fear of the mob that consume Murdoch press, than Murdoch press itself, which gives it its supposed power.

I had a letter published years ago in the Australian criticising Tony Abbott, and the next day had several angry messages on my answering machine. Not outright threatening, but very effing angry that I would even dare to question the judgement of the great man, and they’d gone out of their way to track down my landline and let me know what they thought of me.

I was more than a bit shaken, and that was a decade ago before the explosion in SM. What I’ve heard of the pile-ons that people have experienced when they’ve made leftish statements about Anzac Day or immigrants or somesuch, makes me suspect it’s not the response from Sky talking heads that is scary. They’re the dog whistlers for the bogans with the southern cross tatts who are in a perpetual state of outrage and always looking to feel better about themselves by bullying someone else.

 

[Johnny Bananas]

Sometimes I suspect it’s more the fear of the mob that consume Murdoch press, than Murdoch press itself, which gives it its supposed power.

I had a letter published years ago in the Australian criticising Tony Abbott, and the next day had several angry messages on my answering machine. Not outright threatening, but very effing angry that I would even dare to question the judgement of the great man, and they’d gone out of their way to track down my landline and let me know what they thought of me.

I was more than a bit shaken, and that was a decade ago before the explosion in SM. What I’ve heard of the pile-ons that people have experienced when they’ve made leftish statements about Anzac Day or immigrants or somesuch, makes me suspect it’s not the response from Sky talking heads that is scary. They’re the dog whistlers for the bogans with the southern cross tatts who are in a perpetual state of outrage and always looking to feel better about themselves by bullying someone else.

Gee, that's pretty bad that these lowlifes would make so much effort to yell abuse at you.

Do you have a European name? If you don't, I can just imagine how many racial slurs would have been added to the abuse.

 

[Grin]

I remember something about Andrew Bolt being dropped from the panel on insiders because his supporters would abuse and threaten other panelists who didn't agree with his every statement.
Extremely fragile and thin skinned the right wing snow flakes