Gerard Henderson and a bowl of dog food (Image: Private Media) A dog’s breakfast Conservative talking head Gerard Henderson’s borderline comical aversion to facts is well-documented. Indeed, Crikey for a number of years ran a column (by, ahem, yes Mark Latham ) documenting just how often he managed to get things wrong. Henderson’s latest cock-up involves Antoinette Lattouf over her recent interview of Scott Morrison on LiSTNR’s The Weekend Briefing podcast.
Henderson’s Media Watch Dog column, published in The Australian every Friday, tore into “ The Saturday Paper ’s Antoinette Lattouf”, claiming she “diminishes” her own interview with the former prime minister. Henderson labelled the Schwartz Media product as “boring”, before teeing off at Lattouf’s journalism over the course of the interview. He also made a number of snarky remarks referencing Islam.
The only problem, of course, is that Lattouf doesn’t work for The Saturday Paper , who happen to also have a daily morning column titled “The Briefing”. Nor is there any indication anywhere that she is a Muslim. ScoMo might have no clue who Antoinette Lattouf is, and Transport for London has beef with us Read More We asked Henderson whether he looked up Lattouf (or anything at all) ahead of publication, whether he contacted her ahead of publication, and whether his column was fact-checked.
We got a very prompt and lengthy response that for reasons unknown was at pains to mention that Peter FitzSi.