Another Murdoch chick coming home to roost.

Compare and contrast: In 2004, Ron Atkinson is caught making racist remarks about then Chelsea FC defender, Marcel Desailly, when he thought the microphone was off. ITV, promptly and correctly, sacked him. What he said was unacceptable. Richard Keys and Andy Gray are caught making sexist remarks about lineswoman Sian Massey, when they think the microphone is off. Sky says this is “not acceptable.” Yet they keep their jobs. Obviously, like much of Rupert Murdoch’s empire, Sky are liars because it clearly is acceptable to them and, furthermore, they tacitly condone sexism. All three believed the target of their ire to be inferior to their notions of pigmentation or gender, yet Sky’s dinosaurs are not made extinct. To cap it off, Keys’ and Gray’s gripes stemmed from what they believed was incompetentce in Massey, as representaive of all women, but she had got the main decisions right.
As a sidebar, Gray took over Atkinson’s Guardian analysis column on a temporary basis when the latter man was removed from his duties as a result of his Desailly comments. Just as well for The Guardian that it was temporary.