The ABC are taking some poorly thought and knee-jerk decisions lately. They instead should take a State-like approach to their decision making.
I mean, management need to treat their tenure as a small period in an organisation that continues forever. A perspective change, hopefully leading to better deliberative decisions.
No need to rush when you have eternity to play with.
They keep appointing LNP and Murdoch approved hacks to the ABC so we keep getting LNP and Murdoch aligned moves, while they are still by far one of the best news sources in Australia, we need to look at the ABC with a critical eye, as with all other media.
Yeah, this is important. In such a small traditional media environment they probably feel like they don’t have much choice. They should look for talent in new and independent media if they don’t already, theres still plenty of people out there, they just have tiny loudspeakers.
It will be interesting to see how Murdoch will attempt to control the new generations who get most of their news first-hand through social media. They already try to discredit it, but I don’t think many people will want to pay for whatever crap some snooty journalist wants you to read compared with what people on the ground are seeing for free.
I don’t want the media to cease to exist - we still need a way to know what is going on but there should be a strong focus on objectivity and reporting events. Opinions belong on personal blog sites, Lemmy comments and Mastodon posts, not mixed in with news. Opinion pieces by journalists are an abuse of power due to their large reach and supposed validity over someone on social media whose opinion in a democracy is equally valid. Another issue I have with opinion pieces is a publication’s tendency to only show one side of the story, plus there’s no way to reply to the opinion or discuss it - it is presented as fact, the author is not responsible for it and will not respond to your arguments, because you’re not a journalist - just an idiot who doesn’t have the right opinion.
A little bit of a rant but yeah we need media to change and hiring ABC chairs from other Australian Media isn’t going to fix it
They instead should take a State-like approach
They did take a State-like approach.
The Australian Government supports Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people. The ABC supports Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people. State-like.
Haha, different interpretations of State i guess.
I’d interpret your example as policies of the Government of the day, which represents the State, (like the managers represent the ABC), for a short tenure of the life of the respective entities.
My interpretation in line with what might come to mind when you talk about a Statesman. Good current examples would be John Kerry, Angela Merkel, or closer to home, Julie Bishop. These people have their political aims, but they also realise the continuation of the State as a living entity has a use in its dependency and therefore importance. Noticeably, they’re more internationally focused where its enormously important to take a wider breadth of view in regards your own State and its continuing existence.
I honestly didn’t read it, but, can people not be sacked anymore?
I’ve been sacked when I was young, and I damn well deserved it. It was a wakeup call. Never made that mistake again.
I honestly didn’t read it
Please read it.
Tl:dr
- An xmas hols fill in, made some unrelated post referencing the atrocities happening against palestinians.
2.Whatsapp (i think) group in Aus decided to launch a targetted campaign to remove lettouf from broadcasting.
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Other people from the same group took screenshots and went public
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ABC management screwed up, and probably deserve all the punishment they get for having such a wrong headed and knee-jerk response.
