This week Channel 9 terminated their contract with breakfast tv host Karl Stefanovic due to his podcast featuring a man often described as a far-right extremist, Tommy Robinson. Stefanovic has responded by stating he is wanting to champion a diversity of views. Of course, his lineup isn’t that diverse. He tends to feature guests from the harder right. He is indeed making decisions about who to get on and what kind of audience he wants.
The guests podcasters choose is revealing. Taken as a whole, the guest lineup reveals to us the aims and values of the podcast. Like Stefanovic, as podcasters we come from a different medium and style of speaking. For us, our most common platform is the pulpit. Moving then to a podcast, we have learnt about podcasting through experience, through reflecting together on what we wanted to achieve and what was important to us.
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