Lazy online activists abuse free speech

Yumi Stynes has been the target of an online hate campaign. Source: HWT Image Library

HOW amazing. In all Australian television in the past year, only one presenter is so evil that they must be hounded off air.

Well, two actually, but more about me later.

I'm talking, of course, about Yumi Stynes - now the target of a hate campaign by fat-bottomed moralists who offend me even more than she did.

Until Tuesday last week, most Australians did not even know Stynes existed, and was a host of the Channel 10 morning chat show The Circle.

But on that fateful day, Stynes made a mistake that comes from not knowing much but having much time to fill with babbling about whatever.

Her assigned subject was VC winner Corporal Ben Roberts-Smith, the astonishingly brave soldier who'd featured in a Channel 7 documentary two days earlier.

I'd bet she hadn't seen the documentary, and had no idea Roberts-Smith had movingly revealed the struggle he and his wife had to conceive a child.

All that she apparently had was a picture of this gigantic soldier's muscled body as he exercised in a pool, at which point something in her brain went ping and she said: "He's going to dive down to the bottom of the pool to see if his brain is there."

It got worse. With her was ageing reporter George Negus, also underresearched, who consoled himself with the observation that people like poor old Ben might not be up to it in the sack.

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Lazy online activists abuse free speech