MEDIA NEWS:

As US singer Taylor Swift prepares to take to the stage on the Australian leg of her Eras tour, two Australian journalists covering the event have lost their jobs.

An experienced and highly respected entertainment reporter with the Ten Network in Melbourne was summarily dismissed this morning for a botched outside broadcast that management described as a “monstrous dereliction of duty”.

The scribe who asked not be be named is pictured above clearing out her desk at the station’s South Yarra headquarters.

The Bug understands the silly woman filed a report from outside the Melbourne Cricket Ground around 8am this morning ahead of Taylor Swift’s first concert there tonight and did not use a single pun based on Swift’s many hit records over her recording career.

Another reporter writing for multiple News Crap Australia outlets was also sacked after filing a story, so far unpublished, about the economic impact of the Taylor swift tour.

The unidentified journalist had written an analysis piece about often-repeated claims that the US star’s Eras tour would deliver a massive economic boost to hosts cities, with Melbourne alone predicted by various economic forecasters to benefit from a boost calculated at anywhere from hundreds of millions of dollars up to close to $1 billion. (below)

“The sacked reporter simply wrote that the local spending on concert tickets by Swift fans and other spending to stage her shows is just a transfer of domestic spending from one specific purpose to another,” another journalist familiar with the spiked story told The Bug on condition of anonymity.

“In other words, the money being spent would have been spent anyway on something else if Swift had not come to town.

“In addition, almost all the ticket price goes to Swift and she effectively packs those hundreds of millions of dollars in her bag and takes it out of the country anyway.

“The actual ‘new’ money injected into the local economy comes only from the relatively small number of overseas tourists flying to Australia to attend her concerts.

“In comparison to the grandiose predictions of $400 million or $780 million ‘boosts’, the actual additional money being injected into the local economy is, to coin a technical economics term, fuckall.

“But of course if you are News Crap Australia and see a chance to flog more papers by inserting Tay Tay posters and the like, you don’t want that sort of fact getting in the way,” the anonymous journalist said.

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