What on earth has happened to Sky LNPNews Australia? Have they suddenly become a fair and balanced news organisation?

These were the questions shared and asked collectively by the confused washed-up old hacks who compile this column after recent days when more than “a fair share” of Sky LNPNews posts on the Microsoft Start search engine could be described as pro-Labor.

They refer to the examples (shown at top) with Labor federal parliamentarians getting their opportunity to put a leftish spin on an uptick in inflation and how, presumably, Labor’s looming income tax cuts could be seen as productivity measures.

“Don’t get the wrong idea about what we were witnessing here,” one of our senior MGH compilers said. “When we say fair share, those four to five paragraph extracts from various Sky LNPNews TV shows shown ad nauseum on Microsoft Start are normally 100 per cent anti-Labor.

“But over recent days, they must have been travelling, say 95 per cent pro-LNP to five per cent Labor. It was unprecedented. Maybe someone was briefly in charge who didn’t know how things worked at Sky LNPNews Australia.

“Luckily we did check all the platform’s TV shows over one particularly long day and after dark – from the likes of Paul Murray, Andrew Bolt, Chris Kenny, Peta Credlin and Sharri Markson – and they were all 100 per cent rabidly and risibly far-right wing.”

The MGH compilers were unanimous in expressing their concern that fairness might have been creeping, ever so slightly, into Sky LNPNews Australia’s pattern of behaviour.

“Imagine how effective Sky LNPNews could be if they sometimes pretended to be reasonable. Instead of just being a constant laughing stock, they might actually be believed when they got stuck into Labor in a legitimate and professional way from time to time.

“You know what I mean … when Labor actually deserved a hit bigtime, as they invariably do from time to time, Sky LNPNews could almost become a credible news platform and actually be effective for a change. That would be a worry.”

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