On Friday the Daily Telegraph published its 10th consecutive front page on the Barnaby Joyce affair: No, Minister: PM Bans Sex. We think this may be a record of sorts. The editor of the Daily Telegraph, Chris Dore, agrees. “It’s not unheard of but it’s definitely unusual for one story, particularly a political yarn, to feature on the front on so many consecutive days.” Dore says the story gained momentum over the week as the Coalition allowed it to fester.
“Most political stories I would say are resolved far more quickly than this one,” he said. “But the inept handling of it by Joyce and the Nationals kept it dragging along.”
Dore says that some press gallery journalists’ original denial that Joyce’s pregnant mistress Vikki Campion was a story may have given the Coalition false hope that it was just a “Tele frolic”.
While it was the snap of a heavily pregnant Campion that sealed the story for the Tele, another photo, of a beaming Joyce and Campion posing together, has been used heavily across the media – including on page one of the Tele last Friday.
The photo has a very interesting backstory. It is actually a selfie taken by the former News Corp photographer Bradley Hunter, who was cropped out of the shot before publication. Hunter broke new ground when he went to work as a personal photographer for the then prime minister, Tony Abbott, in 2015. (As we previously reported, former Fairfax employee Andrew Meares recently joined the staff of Bill Shorten as his personal photographer.)
Source:
theguardian
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