Grandparents Inability To Use A Smart TV Sees Them Radicalised By Sky News On Samsung Home Screen

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Two loving local grandparents from the leafy enclave of Betoota Grove have gradually embraced the warm hug of Murdoch-funded grievance politics, it can be confirmed.

This comes as Dot and Davo Brindle (79 and 82 respectively) made the upgrade from free-to-air antenna television - to the space-age 'smart TV' revolution.

Known as Nanna and Poppy to their 12 grandkids, the retired grandparents have recently found themselves with a bit more time to watch the telly.

After hearing about all these exciting now services like 'Netflix' and 'Stan' - Dot and Davo wanted to make sure they weren't missing any of the shows and movies that their grandkids were always talking about.

Unfortunately, after having the TV installed, they were suddenly left in the dark - too embarrassed to ask for help to overcome their technological illiteracy.

Now, as is the case in hundreds of thousands of senior households around Australia, Nanny and Poppy are beholden to the Samsung Home Screen - which immediately mainlines Sky News Australia into both their living room and their brains.

Suddenly, Poppy seems 100% convinced that Climate Change was actually a gee up - and has come to believe that he was wrong about it all these years.

Nanna is also deeply concerned that their garaged Holden Camry is going to be stolen by African teenagers at any moment and used in an gangland hit.

They also have good reason to believe that Penny Wong is Satan and that preferential voting needs to be abolished because it's unfair to everyday Australians.

As lifelong political moderates, this recent culture wars pivot has caught the attention of the family, who have long praised their Dot and Davo for never giving too much thought to the talkback radio shock jocks like Alan Jones and Ray Hadley.

However, with far-right political commentary presented to them as honest nightly news - the elderly couple have no reason to not think that Australia has gone to hell in a hand basket.

"If I could just show Dad how to toggle the remote so that he could open ABC iView... We might be able to mitigate the damage" says their oldest daughter, Jacqui.

"Or even just Kayo or Stan Sport. Neither of them have watched a sporting match in months. It's just Andrew Bolt and Peta Credlin screaming at them through the Samsung TV home screen"

However, with Davo and Dot's brains being rewarded by the shock and outrage of partisan Murdoch slop, the family worries they might not want to come back and rejoin the real world.

"I think they'd get bored with normal weather updates and traffic reports" says Pip, their second oldest daughter.

"They are so used to constant updates on every single crime ever committed by someone with brown skin"

However, the extended family all agree that their brainwashing of Nanna and Poppy needs to stop.

"I think Samsung should be held accountable for automatically broadcasting far-right propaganda" says their oldest grandchild, Annabella (19).

"They keep asking my cousins if it's true that they're teachers are drag queens"

"And if their classmates are really allowed to identify as cats"