A few of 9 Leisure’s greatest radio stars have criticised their boss Peter Costello on air after he allegedly knocked a journalist to the bottom.
The Australian reporter Liam Mendes had tried to query Mr Costello at Canberra Airport on Thursday over allegations of harassment at 9.
In a video printed by The Australian, Mendes follows Mr Costello by the airport as he asks about 9 chief government Mike Sneesby.
‘You will have simply assaulted me,’ the journalist mentioned within the video.
No grievance has been lodged with police over the incident.
9 chairman Peter Costello (pictured within the video) was filmed showing to push over a journalist at Canberra Airport on Thursday
Mr Costello, 66, was questioned by The Australian journalist Liam Mendes (pictured) about 9’s dealing with of harassment allegations in opposition to its former information director Darren Wick
2GB host Ben Fordham mentioned Mr Costello had ‘had a shocker’
Mr Costello is adamant he didn’t assault the journalist.
‘I walked previous him, he walked again into an promoting placard and he fell over,’ he instructed reporters in a while Thursday.
‘I didn’t strike him.
‘If he is upset about that, I am sorry, however I didn’t strike him.’
On Friday morning, Fordham instructed listeners of his radio present on 2GB, which is owned by 9, that he had written to his boss to ask him on air to deal with the incident.
‘I mentioned, “you have to deal with the airport incident, you recognize that higher than anybody and there is just one place to do it, 2GB at 7.15am,” however I have not obtained a response,’ Fordham mentioned.
The radio host mentioned that Mr Costello gave the impression to be ‘taken without warning’.
‘When Liam Mendes fired off questions, the Channel 9 chairman seems to be more and more annoyed. Mr Costello picks up his tempo and walks into Liam Mendes.
‘Liam falls over some promoting billboards and falls on his bottom.
‘Mr Costello doesn’t cease to supply help or examine that he is OK.’
The journalist had launched himself to Costello (pictured) and commenced questioning why the 9 boss hadn’t present his help for the community’s chief government officer, Mike Sneesby
Fordham mentioned the incident was ‘not a superb look’ and Mr Costello ‘ought to have dealt with it higher’.
Fordham mentioned if Mr Costello was to come back on his present, he would say: ‘Boss, you’ve got had a shocker.’
2GB host Ray Hadley additionally addressed the incident, and mentioned from the corporate’s viewpoint, ‘it is not likely good when the chair is accused, not to mention acted in the best way that he allegedly acted’.
In Melbourne, Tom Elliot, who hosts a present on 3AW, which can also be owned by 9, mentioned there would nearly actually be CCTV footage of the incident that may show who was appropriate.
‘If Mr Mendes is true, and he was pushed over by Peter Costello, that could be a very, very dangerous search for Peter Costello,’ Elliot mentioned.
‘You may not like having a microphone shoved in your face, Mr Costello may need been drained after his flight, I do not know, however you do not push individuals over.
‘To Peter Costello I say, should you did push Mr Mendes over, apologise and be finished with it. Should you did not, stand your floor.’
It comes as Treasurer Jim Chalmers weighed in, saying that the top of a media large ought to know to deal with journalists with respect.
‘I feel it is actually essential that we deal with journalists with respect, that journalists are secure of their office,” Dr Chalmers mentioned.
‘And if anybody ought to know that, it needs to be the chairman of a serious media organisation.
‘It is a matter for the journalist whether or not or not that is taken any additional,’ he added.
