Media companies struggle to control personalities they helped build, as Stefanovic controversy shows
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Elizabeth Knight
Summary
The article discusses how media companies like Nine Entertainment nurture personalities (e.g., Karl Stefanovic) who eventually develop identities and content that the companies can't control. It focuses on the controversy around Stefanovic's interview with Alan Jones (the "Stefanovic-Robinson content") being taken down, with no party — Nine, YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or Instagram — claiming responsibility. The piece suggests Stefanovic's own advertisers may have demanded the removal, while Nine tries to distance itself from Stefanovic's new public identity.
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bskyMedia companies struggle to control personalities they helped build, as Stefanovic controversy showstheage.com.auKey quotes
· 3 pulledNeither Stefanovic's main employer, Nine Entertainment, nor the large platforms (YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Instagram) that hosted it are claiming responsibility, leaving amateur Sherlocks to logically deduce it was Stefanovic's own team.
One likely explanation is that Stefanovic's own advertisers, which include a gaggle of little-known supplement and tech businesses, demanded the episode come down.
How far Nine pushes back to distance itself from Stefanovic's new identity is now up to the network.
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