A contemporary Affair accused of racism after call for tales on ‘cheap’ Asian tradies

The social media name-out through the Channel 9 display read: “have you had an revel in with Asian tradies? Painters, tilers, plasterers… What did you think? Did they do a good job, were they reasonably-priced?”

The now-deleted submit requested for submissions from human beings willing to be interviewed on tv.

“I’m positive this tale can be in no manner racist or silly,” tweeted author John Birmingham, posting a screengrab of the facebook replace.

other Twitter users attacked A contemporary Affair as “sleazy, tabloid, trash television” and “rankings pushed vultures, with 0 credibility”.

this system has come underneath fire for its portrayal of the Asian community before, when in 2013 it broadcast a tale on what it referred to as an “all-Asian mall” in Sydney.

The story became judged to have breached the codes of practice via media watchdog the Australian Communications and Media Authority.

A modern Affair’s govt producer supply Williams admitted to Mumbrella this afternoon that the submit changed into “irrelevant” but said the story become going to be “effective”.

“I suppose what you can say to our detractors is that we aren't as predictable or cliched as detractors could hope,” he informed the media web page.

“we're sincerely doing a totally advantageous story about how certain tradies and Korean painters, specially, now perceive themselves and their history as a advertising device while looking for customers.”

He stated the story had come from his own revel in in hiring Korean tradies to renovate his assets. He blamed a “a junior social media staffer” for posting the “irrelevant replica” on fb.