ABC is Political

[sptrawler]

Today's Insiders was a complete joke.

4 "Journalists" running propaganda for the Voice, with no dissenting voices allowed.

Instead of having Patricia Karvelas, a known Voice proponent on the panel, they should have invited Warren Mundine or Jacinta Price to provide some balance.

What you think the ABC wants ballance, that would be novel, they should be renamed ABC Albos Broadcasting Cult, they have no perspective other than a completely left leaning one.
It doesn't matter whether it is right or wrong there is only the left side presented, just an absolute waste of taxpayers money.
At least when all T.V becomes pay to view, some pressure will be brought to bear as their ratings continue falling and Governments struggle to justify funding them.

 

[sptrawler]

Not much about it on the ABC website, I thought they may fact check it.

ABC stung by softer news cycle as payouts hit home

ABC boss David Anderson’s pay packet went up 12 per cent in 2023, the year when the public broadcaster’s redundancy costs ballooned and its total audience reach fell.

www.smh.com.au

ABC boss David Anderson’s pay packet went up 12 per cent in 2023, in a year when the public broadcaster’s redundancy costs ballooned and its total audience reach fell four per cent, according to its annual report.
The report, released on Friday afternoon, highlighted a dip in how many Australians were tuning into the ABC (television, radio and online), from 69.4 per cent in 2022 to 65.4 per cent.

 

[sptrawler]

Interesting the ABC is having internal issues with its coverage, kind of shows that the reporting is driven by personal perspectives, rather than just an unbiased report of the facts.
Obviously it is ok to be pro something, as long as the journalists agree and it's not ok when they don't. It seems strange that this has only become an issue now, when we have been commenting on their biases for years.

ABC journalists criticise broadcaster’s coverage of Gaza invasion

A meeting of more than 200 ABC staff has heard complaints from across the newsroom about the way the public broadcaster has covered Israel’s war against Hamas.

www.theage.com.au

More than 200 ABC journalists participated in a mass meeting about the public broadcaster’s coverage of the war in Gaza, with a number of grievances raised leading to a possible shift in how the conflict is reported on, according to several people who attended.

The meeting on Wednesday afternoon, which ABC staff described as emotional and at times heated, took place in person and online and was initiated by Mark Maley, the ABC’s editorial policy manager.
“Our coverage of the war in Gaza is one of the most important and difficult stories imagine to cover,” Maley wrote in an email to staff. “It affects many of our staff in a deeply personal way and raises complex humanitarian, legal and journalistic issues.”
At the beginning of the meeting, Maley acknowledged that the conflict had led to “challenging discussions” with both Muslim and Jewish journalists at the ABC, particularly those with connections to Palestine and Israel.
A number of journalists from Muslim and Arab backgrounds expressed concern that the perception that the ABC was too pro-Israel has impacted their relationships with the communities and their ability to do their jobs. Another staff member voiced concerns the broadcaster has made “possibly irreparable damage” to the trust it has built with the Australian Muslim community over the years with its reporting.

 

[SirRumpole]

Interesting the ABC is having internal issues with its coverage, kind of shows that the reporting is driven by personal perspectives, rather than just an unbiased report of the facts.
Obviously it is ok to be pro something, as long as the journalists agree and it's not ok when they don't. It seems strange that this has only become an issue now, when we have been commenting on their biases for years.

ABC journalists criticise broadcaster’s coverage of Gaza invasion

A meeting of more than 200 ABC staff has heard complaints from across the newsroom about the way the public broadcaster has covered Israel’s war against Hamas.

www.theage.com.au

More than 200 ABC journalists participated in a mass meeting about the public broadcaster’s coverage of the war in Gaza, with a number of grievances raised leading to a possible shift in how the conflict is reported on, according to several people who attended.

The meeting on Wednesday afternoon, which ABC staff described as emotional and at times heated, took place in person and online and was initiated by Mark Maley, the ABC’s editorial policy manager.
“Our coverage of the war in Gaza is one of the most important and difficult stories imagine to cover,” Maley wrote in an email to staff. “It affects many of our staff in a deeply personal way and raises complex humanitarian, legal and journalistic issues.”
At the beginning of the meeting, Maley acknowledged that the conflict had led to “challenging discussions” with both Muslim and Jewish journalists at the ABC, particularly those with connections to Palestine and Israel.
A number of journalists from Muslim and Arab backgrounds expressed concern that the perception that the ABC was too pro-Israel has impacted their relationships with the communities and their ability to do their jobs. Another staff member voiced concerns the broadcaster has made “possibly irreparable damage” to the trust it has built with the Australian Muslim community over the years with its reporting.

That's what happens when the ABC panders to minority groups instead of reporting the facts.

Jewish and Muslim reporters should recuse themselves or be stood down from reporting on this issue.

 

[sptrawler]

That's what happens when the ABC panders to minority groups instead of reporting the facts.

Jewish and Muslim reporters should recuse themselves or be stood down from reporting on this issue.

Spot on, why you would have a pro Jew or pro Palestine reporter engaged in the reporting is beyond me, if they just gave the facts then no one can take issue with it.

To have the journalist put in their requests, is that right or wrong, well I don't know but what they say is heavily weighted IMO:

Journalists argued that the ABC’s coverage of Israel’s ground invasion of Gaza was too heavily reliant on the talking points of the Israel Defence Forces.

They also raised concerns around the ABC’s unwillingness to use language such as “invasion”, “occupation”, “genocide”, “apartheid” and “ethnic cleansing” regarding Israeli government policy and allegations made by human rights groups.

“There is no single, easy universally recognised definition of apartheid that is necessarily fulfilled by what Israel is doing,” Maley said in the meeting.

 

[wayneL]

. Another staff member voiced concerns the broadcaster has made “possibly irreparable damage” to the trust it has built with the Australian Muslim community over the years with its reporting.

Hmmm. It's funny that Jews feel the same.

 

[sptrawler]

WOW now the ABC finds out there are two sides to an issue and has to shut down Q & A when they forgot or didn't have time to stack the audience and the panel.
What a hoot, they wouldn't be dealing with compliant Australians, who quietly sit there and absorb their $hit .

ABC decision to ditch Q+A audience prompted by Caulfield protests

Scenes of pro-Palestine and pro-Israel protesters facing off in Melbourne convinced ABC management that the risks of a live audience outweighed the benefits.

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The ABC’s unusual decision to film Monday night’s episode of Q+A without a live studio audience was prompted by safety concerns following angry clashes between pro-Palestine and pro-Israel protesters in Caulfield last week.
The invitation to be part of the studio audience and to put questions directly to panellists, particularly politicians, is a key attribute of the long-running current affairs discussion program. However, an ABC source, speaking on background because they were not authorised to comment publicly, said management had concerns about the feasibility of hosting a crowd for an episode dedicated to the October 7 attack on Israel by Hamas and Israel’s bombardment of Gaza even before the protest on Friday.

 

[SirRumpole]

WOW now the ABC finds out there are two sides to an issue and has to shut down Q & A when they forgot or didn't have time to stack the audience and the panel.
What a hoot, they wouldn't be dealing with compliant Australians, who quietly sit there and absorb their $hit .

ABC decision to ditch Q+A audience prompted by Caulfield protests

Scenes of pro-Palestine and pro-Israel protesters facing off in Melbourne convinced ABC management that the risks of a live audience outweighed the benefits.

www.smh.com.au

The ABC’s unusual decision to film Monday night’s episode of Q+A without a live studio audience was prompted by safety concerns following angry clashes between pro-Palestine and pro-Israel protesters in Caulfield last week.
The invitation to be part of the studio audience and to put questions directly to panellists, particularly politicians, is a key attribute of the long-running current affairs discussion program. However, an ABC source, speaking on background because they were not authorised to comment publicly, said management had concerns about the feasibility of hosting a crowd for an episode dedicated to the October 7 attack on Israel by Hamas and Israel’s bombardment of Gaza even before the protest on Friday.

It's typical ABC isn't it ?

A very small number of loud voiced people have an interest in Gaza, what people are interested in is their hip pocket and how they can afford their next rent payment.

No wonder ABC audiences are declining, they don't appeal to the majority any more.

 

[sptrawler]

It's typical ABC isn't it ?

A very small number of loud voiced people have an interest in Gaza, what people are interested in is their hip pocket and how they can afford their next rent payment.

No wonder ABC audiences are declining, they don't appeal to the majority any more.

Don't worry Rumpy the elites have taken over the BBC as well, this is why it is difficult to sort fact from fiction, in today's media.
The reporters Don't write articles, they write opinions.

Working class viewers switching off 'politically correct' BBC as Ofcom warns it's 'out of touch'

Audiences across the UK remain 'generally positive' towards the corporation

www.gbnews.com

 

[sptrawler]

Well confusion reigns supreme, has inclusiveness, turned into exclusiveness?

It's so difficult when the media are trying to rewrite fairness, to give everyone a say, but it has to be what the media want to say.

The problem with media narrative is, it is difficult to control, when there is social media, who the hell allowed that into the mix.

By the way, I'm not interested in the intent of the issue, just the fact that the ABC who are funded by the taxpayer, get upset when one of their reporters does a report that doesn't fit.
That never bothered them before IMO, so is it the report or not fitting in with the narrative, that is the problem ?

And for what it's worth I don't have any interest in the middle east issue, other than the missus wants to go there and I don't.

ABC radio presenter axed after Israel-Hamas conflict posts

Journalist Antoinette Lattouf was told on Wednesday not to show up the next day to present for ABC Radio Sydney after her posts on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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A radio presenter who was axed from ABC Radio on Wednesday afternoon is "considering her legal options" after she was terminated over her social media posts about the Israel-Hamas conflict.
Journalist Antoinette Lattouf was filling in for Mornings host Sarah Macdonald who is on leave, but was sacked and told not to return to work on Thursday.
An ABC spokesman said Lattouf was employed on a short-term contract.
“ABC Sydney casual presenter Antoinette Lattouf will not be back on air for her remaining two shifts this week,” he said on Wednesday evening.

In a statement posted to her social media on Wednesday night, Latouff said she was “disappointed” by the ABC’s decision. “I believe I was terminated unlawfully,” she said.
“This is not a win for journalism or critical, fair thinking.
"I am currently considering my legal options."
It is unclear whether it was an individual post or a series of posts that led to the axing.
Lattouf has used both TikTok and Instagram to criticise the Israeli military and government.

Last week, she wrote a statement on Instagram stating the Israeli military was “one that is driven by blood-thirsty, extremist men who want to justify the ongoing annihilation of Palestinians”.
She was also one of more than 100 journalists, including some from The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, who signed an open letter calling for greater scrutiny on the reporting of the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
After signing the letter, she wrote on Instagram: “If someone doesn’t want to work with me because I defend press freedom, responsible and fair journalism that doesn’t bow to political intimidation and lobby groups. Oh, and coz I also don’t want more kids to get bombed – well f--- them.”
According to her website, Lattouf has held reporting and presenting roles at Network 10, SBS, ABC and Triple J. She has also written columns for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.

 

[sptrawler]

Well confusion reigns supreme, has inclusiveness, turned into exclusiveness?

It's so difficult when the media are trying to rewrite fairness, to give everyone a say, but it has to be what the media want to say.

The problem with media narrative is, it is difficult to control, when there is social media, who the hell allowed that into the mix.

By the way, I'm not interested in the intent of the issue, just the fact that the ABC who are funded by the taxpayer, get upset when one of their reporters does a report that doesn't fit.
That never bothered them before IMO, so is it the report or not fitting in with the narrative, that is the problem ?

And for what it's worth I don't have any interest in the middle east issue, other than the missus wants to go there and I don't.

ABC radio presenter axed after Israel-Hamas conflict posts

Journalist Antoinette Lattouf was told on Wednesday not to show up the next day to present for ABC Radio Sydney after her posts on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

www.theage.com.au

A radio presenter who was axed from ABC Radio on Wednesday afternoon is "considering her legal options" after she was terminated over her social media posts about the Israel-Hamas conflict.
Journalist Antoinette Lattouf was filling in for Mornings host Sarah Macdonald who is on leave, but was sacked and told not to return to work on Thursday.
An ABC spokesman said Lattouf was employed on a short-term contract.
“ABC Sydney casual presenter Antoinette Lattouf will not be back on air for her remaining two shifts this week,” he said on Wednesday evening.

In a statement posted to her social media on Wednesday night, Latouff said she was “disappointed” by the ABC’s decision. “I believe I was terminated unlawfully,” she said.
“This is not a win for journalism or critical, fair thinking.
"I am currently considering my legal options."
It is unclear whether it was an individual post or a series of posts that led to the axing.
Lattouf has used both TikTok and Instagram to criticise the Israeli military and government.

Last week, she wrote a statement on Instagram stating the Israeli military was “one that is driven by blood-thirsty, extremist men who want to justify the ongoing annihilation of Palestinians”.
She was also one of more than 100 journalists, including some from The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, who signed an open letter calling for greater scrutiny on the reporting of the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
After signing the letter, she wrote on Instagram: “If someone doesn’t want to work with me because I defend press freedom, responsible and fair journalism that doesn’t bow to political intimidation and lobby groups. Oh, and coz I also don’t want more kids to get bombed – well f--- them.”
According to her website, Lattouf has held reporting and presenting roles at Network 10, SBS, ABC and Triple J. She has also written columns for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.

Well it sounds as though the bastion of righteousness is in manure again.

‘Unlawful termination’: Antoinette Lattouf claims ABC chief made call to sack her

Antoinette Lattouf was asked not to return on Wednesday for the remaining two shifts on her contract over social media posts about the Israel-Hamas conflict.

www.theage.com.au

 

[sptrawler]

And to top it off, now we have the left arcing up against them, well @SirRumpole , we have been saying this for some time.
The ABC is at risk of being either sold or made defunct IMO, loonies running personal agendas and using taxpayers money to pedal personal beliefs, isn't what it is meant to be.
What used to be a goto news service, with honest, unbiased, educational content, IMO has just become a street corner opinion newspaper tabloid. Sad really.

The ABC is at rock bottom because of negligence higher up

A self-satisfied, indulgent culture has been allowed to develop within the corporation and that’s a failure of management.

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There is a negligence about the way the ABC is currently being managed that should concern anyone who values the principles of genuine, objective and thoughtful public broadcasting. We wonder how much time the bosses at Ultimo spend watching and listening to their own output. How else to explain the multiple embarrassments of the past few weeks?

Terminating The Drum was a straightforward programming decision with which we have no serious quibble. Nothing in the transmission schedule should be sacred except the news and its standards. Programs must come and go. Otherwise, the whole service ossifies and descends into anachronistic irrelevance. We may mourn the cancelled shows and dislike their replacements but some level of renewal and revival is essential. After all, the programs we now treasure once displaced a previous show in that same time-slot that we’ve long since forgotten.
As to the decision not to renew the contract of Andrew Probyn, no staff member – not even a Canberra journalist – is indispensable. We might never know the full story behind Probyn’s departure, but it was a legitimate management decision. There were plenty of willing and capable foot-soldiers eager to take his place in the ranks. Richard Carleton and Laurie Oakes were once newcomers, too.
Far more troubling to us has been the ABC’s failure to control the extracurricular opinionating of its on-air staff.

The recent sackings of two presenters who paraded their views on other outlets had the distinct sound of a stable gate being slammed shut well after the bias horse had bolted.
ABC Sydney Afternoons host Josh Szeps’ planned departure from the broadcaster was brought forward following an unauthorised appearance on a Sky News program last week. And stand-in Mornings presenter Antoinette Lattouf was terminated over her social media posts about the Israel-Hamas conflict.
It is not as if the ABC’s leaders have not been advised to formulate and maintain clear and enforceable rules to constrain expressions of opinion by their employees. In response, they devised reams of lofty “guidance” paperwork that has clearly languished unread in the bottom desk drawers and inbox files of the staff who most need to understand the issues. It would help if those rules were widely published.
The core principle is simple enough: objectivity and impartiality are articles of faith in public broadcasting that reporters and presenters must accept as sacrosanct. The defence that private posts on social media or guest appearances on another network, being personal, are somehow separate and not bound by that principle is untenable, as ABC management has belatedly confirmed.
Who’s responsible for the embarrassments? In our view, it is a failure of management and the self-satisfied, indulgent culture they have allowed to develop within the corporation.

Instability at the highest levels has become the house style. In its first half-century, the ABC had just two general managers, both of whom were veteran broadcasters. Since then, there have been eight managing directors, including six who brought no practical broadcasting experience to their appointments.
An endless sequence of re-organisations has eroded the structure and skills base that underpinned the corporation’s standing and public trust. Meanwhile, in an attempt to appeal to niche audiences, the ABC spreads itself too thinly across too many forms of communication. Impact, authority and resources are all divided while largely untrained staff are expected to master multiple techniques beyond their reasonable capacity.
The factors that contributed to the recent downfall of the two radio presenters are similarly endemic. Most young media workers today are not trained in-house and “on the job”. They arrive from quasi-academic tertiary courses that emphasise so-called cultural studies.

The postmodern insistence that there is no such thing as absolute truth and the rejection of impartiality as a requirement of journalism act as an invitation to allow opinion to intrude into ostensibly unbiased reporting. The flow of the ABC’s journalistic waters has been further muddied by the grievances of those demanding further diversity and inclusion within the ABC staff and in the programming they produce, which then suffers from consequent fragmentation into smaller and smaller audiences.
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The national broadcaster gives every appearance of being too willing to accede to pressures that allow the well-meaning goal of diversity to compromise professional standards. It is a demonstrable failure of management that their acquiescence to the barely appropriate demands of orthodoxy from worlds foreign to the news and information crafts prevents them from insisting on, and then maintaining, the basic disciplines required in public broadcasting.
As we have argued previously, the underlying problem is one of standards. Audiences can recognise second-rate work and bias, and will continue to drift away in disappointment. This disenchantment with the ABC’s service will continue for as long as its “content supervisors” (note the jargon: not “editors”) display so little knowledge or regard for the fundamentals of its trade: clear, literate and grammatical language, balance, well-presented speech, and careful and fair editing.
Attend to those objectives with diligence and the pitfalls of bias and opinion soon disappear.
Stuart Littlemore, KC, is a barrister and former ABC journalist. He was the founding host of Media Watch. David Salter is an independent journalist and TV producer who has filled senior roles at ABC-TV and the commercial networks.

 

[SirRumpole]

The national broadcaster gives every appearance of being too willing to accede to pressures that allow the well-meaning goal of diversity to compromise professional standards.

Nailed it in that one sentence.

 

[mullokintyre]

Nailed it in that one sentence.

I suspect that the walking ego,AKA, Stuart Littlemore, was having a subtle dig at the idea of diversity of opinion rather than cultural diversity.
But thats just my opinion.
Mick

 

[rcw1]

Good morning

Media executive Kim Williams has been announced as the new chair of the ABC. He was previously chief executive officer of News Limited (before it became News Corporation in 2013) and he held the role for two years. ABC chair Ita Buttrose will finish her five-year term on March 6.

Have a very nice day, today.

Kind regards
rcw1

 

[SirRumpole]

Good morning

Media executive Kim Williams has been announced as the new chair of the ABC. He was previously chief executive officer of News Limited (before it became News Corporation in 2013) and he held the role for two years. ABC chair Ita Buttrose will finish her five-year term on March 6.

Have a very nice day, today.

Kind regards
rcw1

Hopefully he may bring back some hard nosed journalism to the ABC instead of the social justice warrior cr@p they have been serving up under Buttrose.

 

[sptrawler]

Hopefully he may bring back some hard nosed journalism to the ABC instead of the social justice warrior cr@p they have been serving up under Buttrose.

Yes Ita cost me a bit of money, I had to buy the wife a DAB radio with a remote.
So that she didn't have to keep walking over to the radio to switch it off and back on, hourly when the social awareness update (I mean news) was broadcast.

 

[sptrawler]

Hopefully he may bring back some hard nosed journalism to the ABC instead of the social justice warrior cr@p they have been serving up under Buttrose.

You have to give Albo credit, for choosing Kim Williams to run the ABC and his first message hits the nail on the head.

ABC must ‘aspire’ to be free from bias: new chair​

The Albanese cabinet has appointed the former News Limited boss as Ita Buttrose’s replacement – and he has wasted no time to tell staff what he expects of them

 

[anca]

There is no way they'd actually appoint some one to that role if they were actually going to do that.

 

[rcw1]

Hopefully he may bring back some hard nosed journalism to the ABC instead of the social justice warrior cr@p they have been serving up under Buttrose.

Good evening SirRumpole,
Hoping find you well ... There was a time when the only tv station available for rcw1 to watch was the ABC, even then night time was a beer and bed and up early to beat the heat of the day.... well ... nothing ever really beat the heat !!! or flies for that matter. The cricket broadcast in particular on the ABC was a special treat ... 'give stack a wack', Keithy Stackpole, his batting and commentating performances... amongst others ...

Don't reckon have tuned into the ABC TV for donkey's years, reckon so, probably it was political back then too, but didn't really worry to much about that crap.

Have a very nice day, today.

Kind regards
rcw1