Did I Say Something Wrong?
In the past seven days two media personalities have been left eating some humble pie. First to put their foot in it was serial-offender Kyle Sandilands taking a cheap shot at Magda Szubanski, suggesting a concentration camp would take care of her weight loss issues. The second slip up was by someone a little less obvious. When Mia Freedman posted a “seven word tweet” to the twitterverse last week urging people to watch a “funny” Youtube clip of a dog with narcolepsy, the last thing she expected was to be reading her name in the big bold letters of a headline in The Australian newspaper.
To be fair, the two incidences do differ - Kyle makes his money waving the flag of controversy, whereas Mia prides herself on her sensitivity and acts as a positive voice in the media on women’s bodies, motherhood, and other family-friendly issues. Kyle’s comment was meant to be inflammatory, Mia’s tweet most certainly was not.
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