Instead of ‘trying to discover COVID origins,’ the ABC ‘tries to rubbish revelations’

Sky News host Chris Kenny says the ABC is engaging in an “extraordinary move” as its investigation unit attempts to discredit a Sharri Markson exclusive which “attracted international interest” on the COVID-19 outbreak, all at the taxpayers’ expense.

He said the exclusive by Sky News host Sharri Markson, which was published in the Daily Telegraph concerned an alleged cover-up by Chinese authorities regarding the coronavirus outbreak.

“It attracted international interest and amplified calls for a full and independent inquiry into the outbreak – something that China has not only strongly resisted but has punished Australia with trade sanctions for daring to suggest”.

He said the ABC’s “priority is to rubbish” the exclusive and “refute” Ms Markson’s story.

Discussing the issue, Sky News host Sharri Markson said, “it’s quite extraordinary that you have the public broadcaster trying to bully journalists out of pursuing a legitimate line of inquiry that western governments all around the world know is a possibility if not a strong possibility”.

“Media Watch and the ABC seem to be against anyone breaking a story, unless the vision is supplied by animal activists, the research is done by unionists or it mentions some cooked up claims about Russian collusion,” Mr Kenny said.

“I think this is extraordinary because the ABC is doing all this at your expense … rather than spending their resources, their investigations unit, trying to find out what happened, where the virus came from, they want to spend all their efforts trying to knock over a story because it came from News Corp”.

“And because maybe it’s a story that Donald Trump likes”.