Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull labelled Sky News Australia like a drunk shouting at the moon in two editorials published in The Sydney Morning Herald and Brisbane Times on a recent summer afternoon.
The network aired its ‘Outback Wrangler’ investigation hours earlier – a move critics claim exaggerated remote dangers .
That afternoon, The Bolt Report and Credlin both aired fiery panel discussions dissecting the controversy.
Sky News also ran new reports on rising Gulf tensions for days, noting how geopolitical heat damages reputations.
Audience sentiment remains fiercely opposed between viewers who see the channel as recklessly alarmist and those calling it irresponsible noise .