I'm guessing this is Sgt Schultz.... if so, he made a mistake, easily done when you are thinking at the speed of light and you react before you even realise you have.... I can understand... but the line between murder and wrongful death is fine there.

You remember that bloke who was shot in the head in The Killing House?  That bloke didn't intend to shoot him - but when operating on instinct in a very tight and fast-moving situation, mistakes happen.

I'm not condoning - just understanding.

I think it's time to drop all this guff.

OK - not Schultz.  Same-same.

Asking if the ABC is credible and trustworthy is like asking if sky news is fair and balanced!

It is reprehensible and unforgivable.

It is also being said the ABC went after Heston Russell by outing personal information about him such as his sexuality in the hope he would "go away" (kill himself).

The ABC is being trashed.

Mark Willacy is also (and rightly so) having to face the music. His credibility has been shredded by Channel 7 and his journalism (if he survives professionally) will always be viewed with a huge cloud over it.

I really think the ABC should stop with the activist journalism. It seems like it never ends well for them. Always in court, always losing and always costing the taxpayer a lot of money.

They always ask for budget increases. For what? For their legal defence? They should receive no extra money.

The ABC is our the Ministry of Truth.

1984  George Orwell

https://www.abhafoundation.org/assets/books/html/1984/139.html

The alteration of the past is necessary for two reasons, one of which is subsidiary and, so to speak, precautionary. The subsidiary reason is that the Party member, like the proletarian, tolerates present-day conditions partly because he has no standards of comparison. He must be cut off from the past, just as he must be cut off from foreign countries, because it is necessary for him to believe that he is better off than his ancestors and that the average level of material comfort is constantly rising. But by far the more important reason for the readjustment of the past is the need to safeguard the infallibility of the Party. It is not merely that speeches, statistics, and records of every kind must be constantly brought up to date in order to show that the predictions of the Party were in all cases right. It is also that no change in doctrine or in political alignment can ever be admitted. For to change one's mind, or even one's policy, is a confession of weakness. If, for example, Eurasia or Eastasia (whichever it may be) is the enemy today, then that country must always have been the enemy. And if the facts say otherwise then the facts must be altered. Thus history is continuously rewritten. This day-to-day falsification of the past, carried out by the Ministry of Truth, is as necessary to the stability of the regime as the work of repression and espionage carried out by the Ministry of Love.

This wasn't just media 'bias'. The ABC doesn't get to wriggle its way out of it that easy.

This was blatant doctoring of footage to tell a totally different story as to what actually happened.

Instead of apologising and correcting the record, the ABC doubled down and attacked Heston Russell instead, even outing his sexuality which he kept private.

They're still doubling down.

Yes, they removed the footage this week. But they have had the original footage for over 18 months.

The ABC needs to be punished over this and I think the best way to punish them is by reducing their funding.

Frank wrote on Sep 16^th, 2024 at 10:05pm:



only in your mind

Frank wrote on Sep 16^th, 2024 at 9:34pm:



To be fair (ahem), the ABC said that the clip was doctored after the it was made and therefore Willacy etc, should not be tarnished. However, it is incumbent upon the reporter and producer to view the final product, to determine whether it is an accurate portrayal of their documentary. How they could miss six shots instead of one is problematic.