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NO TO COTTRELL

We at Sky News can't attack other outlets for letting themselves be platforms for Left-wing extremists and jihadism apologists, and then ourselves give a platform to a thug, bully and anti-Semite like Blair Cottrell. This is a serious and embarrassing error of judgement, and I'm glad Sky has called it out. Cottrell may speak but we must challenge.

We at Sky News can't attack other outlets for letting themselves be platforms for Left-wing extremists and jihadism apologists, and then ourselves give a platform to a thug, bully and anti-Semite like Blair Cottrell.  

I understand concerns about some of the ways Cottrell has been shut down, but you only bring on such extremists if you challenge them as I did here and as Emma Alberici did on the ABC.

This is a serious and embarrassing error of judgement.  I am glad that Sky News has distanced itself from the misjudgement of host Adam Giles:

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