The ABC continues its proud tradition of climate-change-denial, and I propose a time-saving template for future denialist articles.
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Climate change has turned the recovery of a thousand kilometres of sensitive shoreline into a probable permanent loss.
Not front-page news, according to the ABC.
The unfortunate juxtaposition of these two articles, not just on the same day, but literally next to each other on the front page, provides a perfect illustration of two things. Firstly, the ABC’s continuing gaslighting of the Australian public about our gas supplies and prices; and secondly that it’s not an accident. For the gaslighting […]
The possible destruction of a millennia-old sacred site for foreign fossil-fuel profits is framed, instead, as necessary to address a “gas crisis”. Shameful.
Can you tell lies in a “balanced” article? Of course. Here’s an example.
On Thursday, the ABC published a story about the “east coast power crisis”, claiming to explain what was happening. In my opinion, what ABC readers received instead was some vintage ABC “balanced” gaslighting. This kind of article is characterised by: Selective use of the “reporter’s voice”—the voice of true, verified facts—as distinct from attributed quotes. […]
How “right” and “wrong” are equivalent for the ABC’s fact-checkers, who cherry-pick their results.
The “all headline” front page has led to an explosion of clickbait, but deliberately misleading headlines are worse.
Having watched and frequently decried the slow destruction of the ABC from within and without in accordance with Murdoch/IPA/LNP principles, I’m torn by this sudden access of principle. Prima facie, yes, absolutely, this is outrageous. Tediously so. Statement from Ita Buttrose, ABC Chair, on ABC complaints handling process. It’s a typical Dead Overton Whistle, a […]
Teacher’s comments. “Folly” is a good word to summarise this essay, Grant. It contains errors of fact, logic, rhetoric, hubris, and, most glaringly, gender. Grant, only a blithely unconscious male could have written, unironically of the silencing of a woman who dared make public her claims of rape and sexual abuse, & present it as […]
Disclaimer: this article is my personal opinion only. It’s a specific criticism of an online article about the unrest in the Solomon Islands, and then by inference what it tells us about the consequences of a rise in Chinese influence, culminating with the possibility of WAR WITH CHINA. Stan Grant is the ABC’s resident China […]
This is a long-form version of complaint C26280-21 submitted to the ABC today, relating to an article about Anti-vaxxers and vaccine mandate impacts also published today. The URL is at the end of the article. I was sufficiently distressed by this article to write and submit a complaint, which had to be a shorter version […]
Most readers have the attention span of a gnat. Which is why the headline and the lede—the initial paragraph—are so critical to a story, and are often all that a reader will see. The impressions gained there are usually all that is left from “reading the news”. So headlines with emotive language and stories with […]
On Saturday the ABC published an article with the remarkable headline “The share market is telling us how we’re doing in the fight against coronavirus“. The article was by a business journalist, so I suppose the old aphorism that “if all you’ve got is a hammer everything looks like a nail” applies, but it’s a […]
I’ll freely admit science journalism is a hobby-horse of mine, but I don’t think you need to be either a scientist or a writer to detect the not-so-subtle difference between the two headlines above. In fact, you could be forgiven for thinking they were written about two different scientific papers; but they weren’t. They were […]
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