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PZ99 said:
Nope, I didn't miss any detail. I clearly covered it in post 2771 when I said the broadcasting act of 1992 has the same impartiality requirement as the ABC act.

The broadcasting act for television and radio have the same code of impartially and a separate one for print / internet and they all have the same code.

TV (3.4)
Radio (3.1)
3.
1.1 Impartiality
1.1.1 In broadcasting a news Program, a Licensee must:​

a) present news fairly and impartially;

b) clearly distinguish the reporting of factual material from commentary and analysis.

https://www.acma.gov.au/theACMA/Abo...schemes-index-radio-content-regulation-i-acma

All forms of media in this country are supposed to be impartial when it comes to news reports.
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Ah, right that didn't come up in a word search thanks for that. Cheers.

Nevertheless they have been pinged on the code and not on the ACT. The act refers to news reports and as far as I can tell, the commercial stations are pretty squeaky clean there. Commentary does not seem to come under the act or the code for impartiality.

Therefore there is still no comparison.
 
I've seen/heard plenty of similar breaches on commercial stations on 6pm news particularly in the lead up to the 2013 election. Maybe the complainants weren't as loud as they are today :)

I'm still calling this ping a nanny state response based entirely on a technicality and hopefully it's not a prelude to stifling free speech in this country. That's my 18cents worth ;)
 
SMH

Malcolm Turnbull lodges second complaint with the ABC about Emma Alberici


The Turnbull government has lodged a second series of complaints to the ABC about the network's chief economics correspondent Emma Alberici, this time over her reporting on innovation spending.

However, the public broadcaster has roundly rejected the complaints following an internal review.

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It was one of about half a dozen complaints Mr Fifield has made to the ABC since he came communications minister in September 2015. Those included grievances about a segment on Tom Ballard's Tonightly program, changing the date of the Triple J Hottest 100, a Black Comedy sketch and Yassmin Abdel-Magied's comments about Anzac Day.

ABC executives will face a Senate estimates hearing in Canberra on Wednesday night. Tensions are high between the broadcaster and the Coalition after the May budget froze funding at a cost of $84 million over three years.

Mr Fifield denied his grievances were a factor in the funding freeze. He also confirmed he referred two complaints - about Tonightly and Black Comedy - to the broadcasting regulator, the Australian Communications and Media Authority.

The Black Comedy content, which appeared on Facebook, is not within ACMA's remit. Mr Fifield told Senate estimates he knew this but referred it anyway to make a point.
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The last sentence says it all. The Comms minister would be better off using resources to address the NBN complaints instead of wasting it on a hate agenda with no possible outcome.

I'm glad the govt is freezing the funding though. If the ABC really is biased then marginal Lib seats will be the first to feel the cuts to services. Fine by me :)
 
PZ99 said:
The last sentence says it all. The Comms minister would be better off using resources to address the NBN complaints instead of wasting it on a hate agenda with no possible outcome.

I'm glad the govt is freezing the funding though. If the ABC really is biased then marginal Lib seats will be the first to feel the cuts to services. Fine by me :)
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What is this hate agenda?
 
wayneL said:
What is this hate agenda?
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State owned media is the bane of the Coalition's existence - regardless of the on air content.

The Libs have been hating the ABC going right back to the Fraser daze.

They were in the firing line even when Peter Reith was writing his own inconsequential ramblings about IR laws for them almost every week.

I reckon sell off the ABC and give them something else to complain about - like reacquiring coal power stations that they themselves flogged off for nothing.
 
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:laugh::roflmao::laugh: You are entitled to your own opinion, Horace. But you are not entitled to you own facts.
 
OK so he got done for contempt of court and has form for fraud and bashing people up.

He's eating porridge not because he is a bastion of free speech, but because he breaks the law.

It's a code of conduct thing right? :)
 
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