ABC News Reader James McHale in hilarious social media stoush with Nine News Perth
If the film Anchorman with Ron Burgundy was set in Perth……
ABC News Perth presenter James McHale and members of the Nine News Perth team are pilling it on each other on social media.
The Twitter war began after McHale shared an image of his giant mug online, part of a Murdoch University ad campaign.
As you can see, the ad featuring McHale sits directly atop the Channel Nine Perth CBD station, aimed at passing Mitchell freeway drivers.
McHale, who is also hosting a live talk show at the Fringe World Festival this year, is known well by his colleagues in the news business for his cheeky on and off-air behaviour.
“Cute. @9NewsPerth beneath me,” McHale wrote.
“QUIVER AS YOU BOW DOWN BEFORE THE GLORIOUS FURY OF YOUR DIGITAL OVERLORD, PEASANTS. Hope the move went well x”
Here’s the tweet:
Cute. @9NewsPerth beneath me. QUIVER AS YOU BOW DOWN BEFORE THE GLORIOUS FURY OF YOUR DIGITAL OVERLORD, PEASANTS. Hope the move went well x pic.twitter.com/lqHcWaK6B0
— James McHale (@JamesMcHale) January 19, 2017
The rival Perth newsers have been in a Twitter spat in the hours since, taking on each other in a war of local news egos.
Nine News Perth presenter Tim McMillan (who’s substituting on the Today Show for Karl Stefanovic in Sydney over Summer) thanked McHale for helping the station pay it’s bills.
Thanks for helping us pay our bills mate. @JamesMcHale @9NewsPerth
— tim mcmillan (@tmcmillan9) January 19, 2017
Nine News Perth State Political reporter Josh Jerga took this jab:
“Damn it! Those vandals are at it again! Drawing giant penises on billboards,” he wrote.
Damn it! Those vandals are at it again! Drawing giant penises on billboards. https://t.co/8DijO7Bgvb
— Josh Jerga (@josh_jerga) January 20, 2017
McHale, who is a trained lawyer and former Murdoch University student, is the face of a billboard campaign across Perth for the University.
James McHale also hosts a 5pm national news bulletin on ABC News TV.
His Fringe World Show, ‘Real Talk with James McHale’ in on now.
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About his show:
A tight weave of guests, games and gags, lovingly knitted together by TV news anchor (and actual real human person) James McHale.
Off-camera and off-script, join James as he asks the people he’s always wanted to question, the questions he’s always wanted to ask.
Real Talk is about talking real. With our guests: some of Perth’s most treasured jewels and hidden gems, and with our host (who we totally swear honestly absolutely does exist in three dimensional time and space). Join us, as we peel back the carefully crafted public personas, to uncover the carefully crafted public performance personas.
James has swapped the autocue for a pair of trousers, and he’s never been more liberated or less comfortable.
It’s the late night chat show you never knew you could probably live without.
– Ryan Northover
