One Plus One: Andrew Bolt
Controversial TEN presenter Andrew Bolt is tonight's guest on ABC News 24's interview series.
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Controversial TEN presenter and News Corp columnist Andrew Bolt is tonight’s guest on interview series, One Plus One.
Bolt talks to Jane Hutcheon tonight at 8.30pm on ABC News 24 AEDT.
This week ABC TV’s dedicated interview program features one of the country’s leading opinion-makers, Herald Sun Columnist and host of The Bolt Report, Andrew Bolt.
In a wide-ranging interview with Jane Hutcheon, he discusses growing up as a child of recent Dutch immigrants.
Bolt’s father was a school principal and while Andrew was a child, the family lived in different parts of regional Australia from the Nullarbor, South Australia to the Northern Territory.
Mr Bolt said this experience gave him the perspective of an ‘outsider.’
Bolt describes himself as a conservative and a moralist who admires doubt. Does he doubt himself?
“Yes, absolutely. I doubt myself, whether I’m right, whether I’m being nice enough, whether I’ve got my facts there, whether what I write is of interest…”
He voices strong opinions on the role of the ABC being more open to more pluralistic debates and hosts.
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2 Responses
Not a Bolt fan but found it amazing that it takes the ABC to show a human side of him. He was ok on Insiders too but on his Bolt show he comes across as smirky and really right wing. He really needs to go back to the ABC.
“This week ABC TV’s dedicated interview program features one of the country’s leading opinion-makers …”
An honest question: why does the media in general pander so much to the egos of its members, related hangers-on, random interviewees, and miscellaneous bloggers by using this term? Andrew Bolt, Alan Jones, Phillip Adams, Graham Richardson, etc – all have been referred to as “opinion-makers”, media organisations like to think of themselves in the same style, and even the posters on (to pick a single example) somewhere like Mamamia are given this ‘title’ too.
“Opinion-spouters” would be a much better term…