Lured in by Albo ‘slur’, News24 misses the joke and mistakes comedy skit for real news report | Weekly Beast

Comedian says he didn’t expect Murdoch network to be ‘as gullible and digitally illiterate as their target audience’. Plus: Karl Stefanovic falls silentWant to get this in your inbox every Friday? Sign up for the Weekly Beast media newsletter hereThere’s nothing worse than being left out of a joke. At News24, though, they didn’t get it in the first place. The presenter James Macpherson kicked an own goal this week, presenting a satirical video as an authentic Seven News segment while hosting The Bolt Report.The video was created by the sports comedy group Kick it Forward, joking that one of the members of the group, Josh Garlepp, had quit social media after copping abuse for posting about Fremantle’s finals loss on X. Continue reading...