What the ABC wouldn't tell you last night about Clementine Ford
The ABC's 7.30 last night omitted critical information - information if was fully aware of - to present an abusive troll as actually the victim of abusive trolls:
SABRA LANE, PRESENTER: Social media has opened up whole new frontiers of communication, but it has a dark side. A world of haters and abusers often targeting women with threats and insults. Writer and commentator Clementine Ford has been bombarded with abuse online after she called out one of the haters. His company subsequently sacked him. Today a Twitter campaign was launched to support all women exposed to attacks on social media and it went off.... TRACY BOWDEN, REPORTER: Clementine Ford speaks her mind and she is often provocative YOUTUBER: What we are looking at right now is essentially the face of modern evil. You are looking at the face of a totalitarian psychopath. This right here is a beast of a creature. TRACY BOWDEN: The writer and commentator's views have made her the subject of constant online abuse. CLEMINTINE FORD: The first time someone calls you a fat ugly (bleep) it really does hurt, it stings and you think, "What have I done to deserve this?" TRACEY SPICER, JOURNALIST: She has had death threats, she's had threats of rape, the things that have been said to that woman, she has almost become a lightning rod for men's anger against the rising tide of feminism.
TRACY BOWDEN: Last week after being called a slut yet again, Clementine Ford called one of her attackers to account. TRACEY SPICER: She ... simply tagged his company, Meriton and said, "Are you aware of what your employee is writing?" And they took very responsible action which was to terminate this man's employment. TRACY BOWDEN: It was a controversial outcome. JUDITH SLOAN, ECONOMIST: She said some extraordinarily hateful things herself. So it seems to me it is a case of the pot calling the kettle black here. I mean, I think to call for someone's sacking is just extraordinary, you know, just toughen up, princess.
Originally published as What the ABC wouldn't tell you last night about Clementine Ford
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