A journalist who became a feel-good tale of Aboriginal good fortune into an unsightly ambush on reside TV has deleted his social media in accordance with backlash to the incident.
Sky Information reporter Peter Stafanovic has been lambasted for perpetuating “a harmful and negative stereotype” following his trainwreck interview with Katherine youngster Keegan Payne.
19-year-old Payne did the rounds of media interviews closing date nearest he sensationally changed into the first-ever winner of the whole $1 million greenback prize of the Lead Finish’s annual fishing festival.
Then again, {the teenager}’s successful smile, which had charmed folk around the nation, temporarily fell when Stefanovic raised an incident from his era involving a stolen buggy.
A obviously abash Payne defined that he and a few concerned buddies “weren’t thinking at the time”, have been “still young” and that he regretted it “big time”.
The buggy was once taken from Payne’s upcoming employer, Bob Cavanagh, who in an interview with the Day-to-day Mail mentioned there have been refuse dehydrated emotions over the incident.
He mentioned Payne was once a “good kid”, and that the gang of buddies had labored weekends for him detached of fee to express regret.
Stefanovic’s ambush of Payne was once rapidly condemned on-line.
Posting to LinkedIn, Naomi Moran, normal supervisor of Koori Mail, described it as “institutionalised discrimination” at the a part of Australia’s legacy media.
“A narrative that is so familiar … That a Black person will only be who he once was, rather than who he has become in this country,” she wrote.
“We must continue to call out this representation of our people in mainstream .”
The media outlet posted an apology to its web site on Friday.
“Sky Information Australia and Peter Stefanovic apologise to Mr Payne and his community for elevating those claims right through the reside interview about his million greenback win within the fishing festival,” reads the statement.
“Mr Stefanovic has reached out to Mr Payne and his community at once to put across his apology.”
