Originally Posted by
mistaTea
Chris Keall only ever writes negative press about Sky. Even when the news is good, he will find a way to put a negative slant on it.
So far as his articles go, this one actually isn’t so bad. Sure, he makes a point of kneeing Sky in the groin and then finishing off with some punches to the back of the head...but that’s pretty good relative to his usual stuff!
Most of what he writes seems to be his own personal opinion. Of course, he does not flag his articles as Opinion pieces and his articles tend to be a muddle of facts and his own views of what he ‘reckons’ sounds about right.
I like to think that most people read his stuff with a big pinch of salt, but I am probably wrong about that.
He doesn’t know nearly as much about the industry as he makes out.
When he hits a gap in his knowledge, he has a tendency to fill in the gap my just making it up based on what ‘sounds about right’ to him from what I have been able to ascertain.
For example, when Sky purchased lighbox our streaming subs went up significantly over night. He reported on that fact but then added something along the lines of “but not so fast, customers currently get Lightbox for free from Spark so it is not known how many of these Spark subs will actually be paying customers once the service is merged”. Ummmm, all of them will be paying customers from Sky’s perspective you numbnuts - Spark pay Sky $9.99 per month for each sub, regardless of whether they recoup the costs from their own customer (which they do anyway).
He didn’t know what he was talking about so, rather than ask Spark and/or Sky for clarification, he just decided to make it up.
On more positive news, only 4 business days to go until we get the HY results and see Sophie on action.
Will it just be a run of the mill presso with nothing new? Or will she have some goodies for us as she makes a concerted effort to get off on the right foot with shareholders from the beginning?