Samantha Armytage has been back in the news recently for various important reasons such as flaunting some jewellery, hating herMost of it has run on some obscure British blog that pretends it is a proper media outlet. As usual, not all the coverage of Channel Seven’s breakfast television host has been positive - apart from the fact her dog Banjo was her best man. Every column inch dedicated to covering Armytage’s every movement tends to be met with a column inch taking her down.
These are all things that are interesting about other people too. But no one was writing about whether Lisa Wilkinson and Peter FitzSimons were having screaming matches in their lower north shore home . No one was scrutinising whether Virginia Trioli was making unreasonable demands about her 4am make-up call.
has dominated the breakfast TV ratings for years. Last year the show averaged 480,000 daily viewers nationally, 279,000 of those viewers in the capital cities. When you consider breakfast TV averages are spread across the entire 3.5 hour show,Rather than exploring this, Armytage’s critics have dedicated themselves to either trying to embarrass her about her underwear or scrutinise her off-air personality.
nathanaelcooper Who ?
nathanaelcooper Racist right wing grub
nathanaelcooper Isn’t she that racist one who hit the news about the twins? I’d be willing to bet money that racism doesn’t stop after 9am.
nathanaelcooper Yeah sure....SMH
nathanaelcooper Same chick that was doing drugs and hanging out with channel seven boss?
nathanaelcooper 5:30am to 9:00am we give no shit.
nathanaelcooper Disagree. In course of her work she shamelessly intrudes into private lives of others
nathanaelcooper I'll be glad if you stop talking about her.
nathanaelcooper She reads the news...am i missing something, or is it a quiet week?
nathanaelcooper It’s amazing how racism is airbrushed so easily.
nathanaelcooper Why not target a man? You've betrayed your misogyny!!
nathanaelcooper There are more important matters and issues for SMH to be reporting and opining on. Is there a lack of quality journalism? Spare us from trashy tabloid pieces and no one in Sydney cares about Samantha
nathanaelcooper Yeah. If she confined her celebrity from 6am-530pm then sure. But if she’s in magazine covers, runways, socialite events etc..then she’s fair celebrity game just like every other celebrity. She wants better PR? She needs a better PR manager.
nathanaelcooper Opinions about opinions. Rubbish all of it.....
nathanaelcooper What happens inside is enough to be turned off totally
nathanaelcooper Just so I’m clear, you wrote a story... about not writing stories?
nathanaelcooper She’s a celebrity, which means quite precisely, that the divide between public and private breaks down. Public figures whose private lives are if no interest or concern are different from celebrities. She is a celebrity.
nathanaelcooper What a hypocritical article. The bullying comes straight from one of your own colleagues.
nathanaelcooper Who?
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nathanaelcooper There's a discourse?
nathanaelcooper So is she ethnic Anglo? Or ethnic Irish?
nathanaelcooper Hard to imagine pap like that being published in the SMH even just a few years ago. What happened?
nathanaelcooper Who gives a shite about Sam. I’m sure she can’t believe the fuss either
nathanaelcooper Honestly it’s the 5.30am to 9am part that’s the problem. Let’s be honest here, she’s just a pretty mouthpiece for Kerry Stokes to push his agenda
nathanaelcooper I don't give a shit about Sam Armytage between 05:30 and 09:00. I don't give a shit about Sam Armytage between 09:01 and 05:29 either.
nathanaelcooper But why does she do it to other people? It’s a one way street is it
nathanaelcooper No wonder the media want facebook and google to pay...no sane person would pay for this drivel.
nathanaelcooper I only have a vague understanding of who Samantha Armytage is and none at all about the “discourse” around her but I am certain that my life won’t be enriched by remedying this.
nathanaelcooper The best thing to do about trolls is the same thing to do about Sam Armytage. Ignore them. But not you write a f-ing story about both.
nathanaelcooper Why don’t you extend that courtesy to all of your other subject matter, then take a redundancy?
nathanaelcooper Yeah, but it's that 5.30 to 9.00 period that is the important part. And she has been found guilty of racism during that period, as well as exhibiting deeply conservative behaviour. I don't much care for the rest of her day, but her professional hours are pretty ugly.
nathanaelcooper yeah but she skinned and cooked a dog