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Sweeney Preston

The Writer Behind SMH’s Cooked Rebel Wilson Article Has Finally Admitted It Was Cooked

After 48 hours of getting roasted from every corner of the globe, Andrew Hornery,
Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) here I made mistakes over Rebel Wilson, and will learn from them “On the weekend I wrote about the background leading to Rebel Wilson’s social media post revealing her new relationship with another woman. I have learnt some new and difficult lessons from this and want to be upfront with you about the things I got wrong,” “I genuinely regret that Rebel has found this hard. That was never my intention. But I see she has handled it all with extraordinary grace. As a gay man I’m well aware of how deeply discrimination hurts. The last thing I would ever want to do is inflict that pain on someone else.” At 9.27am last Thursday I wrote: “Good morning. I am a journalist from The Sydney Morning Herald and I was hoping I could get a comment from Rebel regarding her new relationship. “However, in the interests of transparency and fairness, before publishing I am reaching out to Rebel to see if she will engage in what I believe is a happy and unexpected news story for her, especially given the recent Pride celebrations. “My deadline is Friday, 1pm Sydney-time. Regards, Andrew Hornery.” “In trying to tell the story within the story, which is what Private Sydney does, the tone of my column on Saturday was also off. I got it wrong. I allowed my disappointment to cast a shadow over the piece. That was not fair and I apologise. “As a result, the Herald will take down Saturday’s column and replace it with this one.” broke her silence Kate Doak 

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the journo behind *that*  article has finally followed up with a response. The full article is available to read . In the interest of discretion and at the risk of you, the reader, losing any more brain cells we’ve only copied in select portions of Hornery’s full follow-up story. In the piece ““, Hornery attempts to explain his actions. Hornery begins. I’m sorry but “I genuinely regret that Rebel has found this hard” kinda sounds like “I’m sorry YOU were offended.” We’re not off to the greatest of starts here, folks. Horney goes on to include a copy/paste of the email he sent Wilson’s management where he appeared to give Rebel a two-day countdown before he announced she was dating a woman. “ He concludes his article with the following two paragraphs: On Sunday night Rebel Wilson finally on the sitch. In a brief tweet, Rebel replied to journalist thanking her for her support during the “very hard situation”. “Thanks for your comments, it was a very hard situation but trying to handle it with grace,” the tweet read.
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