‘Hysterical media elite’ rush to defend Marcia Langton for her controversial comments

“Hysterical media elite” are rushing to defend prominent Yes campaigner for the Voice Professor Marcia Langton after she declared the No case was based on “racism and stupidity,” says Sky News Digital Editor Jack Houghton.

Mr Houghton said some interpreted Professor Langton’s statement to slander all No voters, but “hysterical” journalists labelled it as “fake news”.

“They even twisted the story to make it sound like Langton was talking only about campaigners, not the case for a No vote in general,” he said.

Mr Houghton said Professor Langton – instead of owning her own comments – threatened to sue journalists over the semantics in a bid to silence her critics, which the ABC “lapped up”.

“The lazy journalists had rushed to her defence without so much as a basic Google search,” he said.

“And ironically, those journalists who dared to push back were labelled fake news and misinformation by a cohort of people who are supposed to be professional journalists.”