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noco said:
It will be interesting to watch QANDA tonight to listen to Tony Jones apology to Andrew Bolt over the racial debacle last Monday night.....An apology about the made up stories implicating Andrew Bolt in racial discrimination..

How low can the ABC go?

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/...cs_qa_to_clarify_those_outrageous_falsehoods/
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If Bolt is offended by QANDA, I thought that was what he was fighting for, ie the right to offend others. Well, it's worked, he has been. Serves him right.
 
From the ABC website this evening:
Fran Kelly to host ABC’s Insiders

ABC journalist Fran Kelly will move to Melbourne to host Insiders for ABC TV while Barrie Cassidy is on leave. Source: News Limited

RADIO National breakfast host Fran Kelly will host the Sunday morning ABC1 panel show, Insiders, from April 27.

Kelly, who has been a regular panellist on the program and is a former political correspondent for ABC Radio and The 7.30 Report, will replace long-time host Barrie Cassidy, who is taking long-service leave to write another book.

“Insiders is a key agenda-setting program that kicks off the news week. In some ways it feels like my second journalistic home,” Kelly said in a statement.
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Should be an improvement over Barrie Cassidy if she keeps up the more objective approach she has displayed over the last couple of months on RN Breakfast.

Maybe Chris Urhlman will take over hosting Breakfast? He is wasted on presenting the usually boring "AM".
 
Julia said:
From the ABC website this evening:


Should be an improvement over Barrie Cassidy if she keeps up the more objective approach she has displayed over the last couple of months on RN Breakfast.

Maybe Chris Urhlman will take over hosting Breakfast? He is wasted on presenting the usually boring "AM".
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IMO Barrie Cassidy would have to be one of the most boring presenters on t.v. Followed closely by Andrew Bolt.

How is Leigh Sales going these days?
 
rumpole said:
If Bolt is offended by QANDA, I thought that was what he was fighting for, ie the right to offend others. Well, it's worked, he has been. Serves him right.
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rumpole, I hope you watched QANDA last night.....Tony Jones apologized to Bolt and admitted the stories were false.

That female Professor got all she deserved.
 
noco said:
rumpole, I hope you watched QANDA last night.....Tony Jones apologized to Bolt and admitted the stories were false.

That female Professor got all she deserved.
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I didn't watch Q&A and don't know anything about Marcia Langton but it takes a strong person to apologise in public so I give her credit for admitting fault. Something that Andrew Bolt is far too stubborn and narrow-minded to ever do for his many misleading and incorrect articles over the years.
 
overhang said:
I didn't watch Q&A and don't know anything about Marcia Langton but it takes a strong person to apologise in public so I give her credit for admitting fault. Something that Andrew Bolt is far too stubborn and narrow-minded to ever do for his many misleading and incorrect articles over the years.
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So what does Bolt have to apologize for?

Please list them...I am genuinely interested or are you making up stories like Professor Marcia Langton and the the ABC has done on several occasions

Tony Jones and the ABC are well known for obloquy.
 
noco said:
So what does Bolt have to apologize for?

Please list them...I am genuinely interested or are you making up stories like Professor Marcia Langton and the the ABC has done on several occasions

Tony Jones and the ABC are well known for obloquy.
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Well the blatantly obvious one is the PAT EATOCK v ANDREW BOLT and HERALD case that found Bolt guilty of racial discrimination.

Just a few weeks ago where he claimed that 'the left' never held any candlelight vigil for the asylum seekers who drowned whilst Labor were in government when in fact they did.

Or how about these claims here http://theaimn.com/2013/10/03/the-facts-versus-andrew-bolt/

I think these days he has his fingers in too many pies and subsequently his fact checking has suffered.
 
overhang said:
I didn't watch Q&A and don't know anything about Marcia Langton but it takes a strong person to apologise in public so I give her credit for admitting fault. Something that Andrew Bolt is far too stubborn and narrow-minded to ever do for his many misleading and incorrect articles over the years.
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Marcia Langton got her fair whack. She forgot she wasn't in an academic cloister or a Leftist street rally, but appearing on a nationally broadcast program. Have you seen pics of Misty Jenkins? Give me a break. https://encrypted.google.com/search...OCtAbdjgE&sqi=2&ved=0CCMQsAQ&biw=1259&bih=866
 
Not one word on ABC 7.30 report tonight about Senator Sinidinos or Keven Rudd's Taiwanese $200,000 donation.
 
A CONTROVERSIAL television program on heart disease breached the ABC’s standards on impartiality, an internal investigation has found.

The two-part Catalyst episode described the link between saturated fats, cholesterol and heart disease as “the biggest myth in medical history’’ and downplayed the benefits of anti-cholesterol drugs called statins, prompting many to stop taking them.
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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/med...reached-abc-code/story-e6frg996-1226914344342

http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/heartofthematter/default.htm
 
ABC's NewsRadio reporting of Blewitt's testimony at the Royal Commission today was shocking. Before it reported on anything that was said it set out to discredit Blewitt. It started by reporting on how he was dressed and the fact that he was wearing respectable clothing (I can't recall if it was a suit or what). It then mentioned that Blewitt had said he couldn't afford to fly back from Malaysia without some recompense and implied that the well dressed appearance meant that this was somehow evidence that his statement of not having much money was untrue and he was not a credible witness. It then repeated Gillard's attack on Blewitt from several months ago when she called him a misogynist lying criminal among other things. There was no mention that the Victoria Police had found the evidence submitted to them by Blewitt as credible. Finally it discussed the slush fund and almost under her breath, the reporter said that the UWA officials had engaged Gillard, who was employed by Slater and Gordon, to help set up the fund. There was no mention that the fund was illegal and that it was set up without the knowledge of the AWU (other than Blewitt and Wilson).
 
Yes, that's almost exactly how it was covered on both Radio National and the Local Radio network news/PM, but PM did include Mr Blewitt's account of paying the cash to Wilson at Gillard's home, and separately, burying cash in his backyard because "there was just so much cash".
 
The bitterness within the ABC on the success of this government's border protection strategies runs deep,

Morrison clearly enjoys Abbott's confidence; after all, he has stopped the boats, or at least turned them back, which to the voters of the western suburbs amounts to the same thing, even if Fiona Scott still has to suffer traffic jams on the M4. And he is definitely a minister on the make; he has revelled in speculation that he could one day take the top job himself. Which should make the thoughtful very nervous. Allowing politicians whose ambition and arrogance greatly outweigh their abilities and character to acquire their own private armies is seldom a good idea.

To take just one obvious example: when Adolf Hitler gave his mate Heinrich Himmler control of the SS in 1929, the organisation was a single battalion of 290. Within a year Himmler had raised its ranks to 3,000 and by the time Hitler gained supreme power in 1933 the SS numbered 52,000. And so it went.
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-05-...rison-and-the-australian-border-farce/5446224
 
It's an opinion piece that's been published under the ABC banner.

There's no rational justification for the comparison between Scott Morrison and Adolf Hitler and any such comparison shouldn't have made it past the cutting room floor.
 
drsmith said:
It's an opinion piece that's been published under the ABC banner.

There's no rational justification for the comparison between Scott Morrison and Adolf Hitler and any such comparison shouldn't have made it past the cutting room floor.
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Well, that is the free speech that is so important to most of us on this forum. Morrison can sue if he wants to, but I would assume the ABC had sought the advice of their lawyers before publishing the article.
 
SirRumpole said:
Well, that is the free speech that is so important to most of us on this forum. Morrison can sue if he wants to, but I would assume the ABC had sought the advice of their lawyers before publishing the article.
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I dont think Zachary is questioning the right to say that, but questioning the wisdom and impartiality of the national broadcaster in saying it.
 
wayneL said:
I dont think Zachary is questioning the right to say that, but questioning the wisdom and impartiality of the national broadcaster in saying it.
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The national broadcaster did not say it, Mungo MacCallum did. If they did not allow him to say it , would it be censorship ? The Drum isn't Q&A , I'm sure the ABC runs opinion pieces past their lawyers first. Other commentators like Peter Reith lambasted Labor on The Drum, I see no reason why the current government should be immune from criticism.

Personally I found the comparison 'over the top'. We don't have private armies in this country, but if MacCallum thinks the comparison is valid, that's just his opinion.
 
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