Video released by The Australian newspaper shows Costello hastening his steps before he appears to drop his shoulder into the reporter at Canberra Airport.
Nine Entertainment chairman Peter Costello has rubbished suggestions he should resign after video emerged of him appearing to shove a journalist to the ground at Canberra Airport, as the fallout continues over the company’s handling of its former television news chief.newspaper shows Costello, holding a jacket and a small suitcase, going down an escalator at Canberra Airport on Thursday afternoon when he is approached by reporter Liam Mendes.
“You can’t do that,” he says as Costello walks to the car park and to a black car. “You attacked me just then.”Costello was in Canberra alongside senior Nine executives for an event to open the company’s new “super-bureau”, containing a new Nine News studio and fresh offices for theWhen this masthead approached Costello at the event, Costello dismissed as “rubbish” suggestions he may be forced to resign as chairman of the entertainment company, while offering an apology to Mendes.
Asked if he had assaulted Mendes, Costello said “that’s not the case. It’s not assault. As I said before he was backing backwards. He hit an advertising placard. I did not lay a finger or a fist or anything else”. “As I said to you, he hit the advertising bollard and fell over. I’m sorry about that. I wish that hadn’t have happened. But you know, I’ve seen it happen a million times.”The Australian, Daily Telegraph, Sydney Morning Herald, in public view of their colleagues, for years. One female former staff member said Wick’s “alcohol-fuelled grope sessions” had occurred at public Christmas parties.
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