The campaign trend that’s ‘worrying’ Tony Jones

Tony Jones says media event “gatecrashers” are becoming increasingly common and represent a worrying trend.

It comes after Prime Minister Scott Morrison was accosted by a member of the public at a private event with the travelling media pack.

Footage of the interaction was uploaded to social media website TikTok, and shows a young man shouting “you’re a disgrace, you are a disgrace” before being escorted out of the venue by security.

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Tony Jones says it appears that these interactions are done for the purpose of gaining traction on social media.

“I suppose to a certain degree, you can say we’re giving him what he wants, and that’s oxygen on-air,” he pointed out on 3AW Mornings.

“But I think they need to be called out on this”.

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Nine News political correspondent Jonathan Kearsley said it was an act of “political activism”.

“This wasn’t a random punter on the street, this was effectively a political activist storming this private event,” he told Tony Jones on 3AW Mornings.

“And I think we’re seeing a lot of this across both sides of politics now Tony.

“There are general protesters, people in the public who are angry and want to know their future, and they are right and they are perfectly entitled to do so.

“But there are also these events where people are gatecrashing them for the purposes of social media, and it’s out-and-out political activism.”

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Image: @adisenofficial TikTok