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The ABC’s main television and radio news bulletins should cover more human interest stories, local news and hip pocket issues, the managing director Michelle Guthrie has said. Guthrie was endorsing an internal editorial review which found the 7pm ABC TV news and the 7am radio news bulletins assumed public broadcasting audiences were more interested in major national and international events than they were in their own community. “To characterise it crudely, an ABC bulletin might leave an anxious viewer sleepless over global instability, while Channel 7 will leave them more worried about crime or violence at the end of their own street,” the Diversity of Broadcast News Stories review found. Led by editorial policies director Alan Sunderland, the review of eight weeks of broadcasts asked whether the ABC was failing to design a bulletin for the widest possible audience due to unconscious cultural bias. “The question is not whether we should also be running footage of individual house fires or escapee animals, but whether there are some thoughtful, unique ways we could add more local, human interest and hip pocket stories to our coverage, possibly through better use of our regional resources,” the review said. The review did not find any breaches of editorial policy in the ABC stories and found that even the shortest of news items was balanced. Across all the broadcasters sport and weather was a priority. However, the ABC’s story selections were often substantially different from those made by the commercial newsrooms, in particular there were many more international stories on the ABC and SBS than there were on channels Seven, Nine and Ten. The breakdown of the commercial and public broadcasters’ bulletins found the most space given to federal politics (16%) on the ABC; international politics (23%) on SBS; general interest (23%) on Seven; crime and sport (18%) on Nine and general interest (16%) on Ten. “The ABC is also much less likely to cover celebrity news, human interest stories, including minor mishaps, or to include stories solely on the basis of spectacular (or sometimes not that spectacular) footage,” the review found. The review recommended ABC journalists spend more time talking to everyday Australians about health expenses, public transport, wages and child care and increase the number of general interest stories “without trivialising or ‘dumbing down’” the bulletins. “Handled well, this could become a defining and promotable feature of our bulletins, especially on TV but also on longer radio bulletins. This is already happening on occasion to good effect, but should be expanded.” Regional reporters should be used more to localise state news bulletins and make them more directly relevant to the community. “These recommendations do not amount to wholesale change, but rather to strategic means of tweaking the mix of content here and there, or to shift the treatment of stories (away from the political and/or national) to increase the relevance and usefulness of news at a local level while maintaining our strong commitment to reporting the issues and events that matter.” In the introduction Guthrie said the review, which is the 15th since the board introduced a series of audits under former ABC chairman James Spigelman in 2013, was a useful reminder of the importance of the ABC’s impartiality in story selection. “The recommendations suggested to improve our diversity should be prioritised by our teams namely to cover economic/hip pocket issues more often and in a different way; drawing on our regional and rural reporters for more human interest stories; and for our local news bulletins to be even more local and community based,” Guthrie said. The background to the review was to ask whether the make-up of the ABC’s bulletins needed a rethink and whether the story selection was adequate to equip audiences to make up their own minds. “The ABC is frequently accused of overlooking systemic gaps in its news coverage,” the review said. “This criticism takes many forms, but tends to coalesce over the proposition that the left-wing bias allegedly prevalent among ABC staff leads them towards stories which accord with a world view which is both progressive and ‘elite’. Another common and related criticism levelled at the ABC is that it ignores the ‘cost of living’ stories important to ordinary Australians in favour of progressive social causes.” Guthrie and Sunderland will face a second round of questions about their handling of the Emma Alberici tax stories at an additional Senate estimates hearing next month.
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# ? Mar 16, 2018 06:09 |
Inshallah
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# ? Mar 16, 2018 06:12 |
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I just made this thread if you care more about BBall then lovely auspol drama: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3851861
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ssmagus posted:I just made this thread if you care more about BBall then lovely auspol drama: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3851861 i do not
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quote:In response to feedback regarding pool safety, the Victorian Government is progressing a legislative amendment to introduce a registration, compliance and enforcement regime for existing swimming pool and spa barriers
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Anidav posted:“The recommendations suggested to improve our diversity should be prioritised by our teams namely to cover economic/hip pocket issues more often and in a different way; drawing on our regional and rural reporters for more human interest stories; and for our local news bulletins to be even more local and community based,” Guthrie said. i thought they fired them all
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# ? Mar 16, 2018 06:37 |
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BBJoey posted:i thought they fired them all Nah, everyone still sends cub reporters to woop woop.
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# ? Mar 16, 2018 06:44 |
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Cartoon posted:I've been trying to put this to bed but if you are going to go after the ALP perhaps you should remember this: Yeah, but that was to offset the effect of the Carbon "tax" for the plebs. It really should have been repealed at the same time as the tax, but I'm sure the economically responsible party in power had their reasons not to.
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-16/persecuted-white-south-african-farmers-resettlement-gaining-mom/9556098quote:A conservative push to resettle "persecuted" white South African farmers in Australia is gaining momentum with several MPs calling for a special humanitarian intake.
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Anidav posted:The breakdown of the commercial and public broadcasters’ bulletins found the most space given to federal politics (16%) on the ABC; international politics (23%) on SBS; general interest (23%) on Seven; crime and sport (18%) on Nine and general interest (16%) on Ten. "Crime and sport".
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https://twitter.com/SkyNewsAust/status/974496113657958402
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# ? Mar 16, 2018 07:43 |
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Holy loving poo poo this tax avoidance stuff. If I ran a train line and the machines were broken then fixed them I would be "changing the rules unfairly."
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Cartoon posted:I've been trying to put this to bed but if you are going to go after the ALP perhaps you should remember this:
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https://twitter.com/firstdogonmoon/status/974450656869277697
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bandaid.friend posted:http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-16/persecuted-white-south-african-farmers-resettlement-gaining-mom/9556098 Well, now I feel gross.
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# ? Mar 16, 2018 08:11 |
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Very believable.
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# ? Mar 16, 2018 08:11 |
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gently caress this racist shithole
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# ? Mar 16, 2018 08:12 |
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Is that what you were working on?
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# ? Mar 16, 2018 08:44 |
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You Am I posted:Is that what you were working on? Yep
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# ? Mar 16, 2018 08:53 |
Pretty sure "white landowner" isn't on the list of eligible skilled occupations. I get the distinct impression the white landowners are considering fleeing not because of any real persecution but because they realise they're outnumbered on the "upholding a racist system" front. I mean, life will be very tough for them once they no longer own the means of production - they might have to work for The Man as opposed to being The Man. Better to go work for the white man in a nice, wealthy, politically stable country run by other whiteys...
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http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-16/south-africa-wants-apology-from-dutton-over-farmers-comments/9554340 posted:Bringing white South African farmers to Australia as part of a special humanitarian program would be a return to the White Australia policy, Greens leader Richard Di Natale has said. RDN... correct and good??? Now if only this sort of fire came out during election time or even membership renewal time.
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# ? Mar 16, 2018 09:20 |
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RDN knows that whites and non-whites both make fine au pairs
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https://tvtonight.com.au/2018/03/gambling-ads-to-be-banned-during-live-sport.htmlquote:Gambling ads to be banned during Live sport gently caress yes.
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I was going to go to this to do a trip report for everyone, but things haven't worked out, sorry
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# ? Mar 16, 2018 09:48 |
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bigis posted:https://tvtonight.com.au/2018/03/gambling-ads-to-be-banned-during-live-sport.html Not far enough
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NTRabbit posted:I was going to go to this to do a trip report for everyone, but things haven't worked out, sorry Self care is a good thing, don't apologise
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# ? Mar 16, 2018 10:11 |
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Going to be one of those PowerPoint presentations that are solid walls of text. No images allowed.
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# ? Mar 16, 2018 10:22 |
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Aesculus posted:Now if only this sort of fire came out during election time or even membership renewal time. You know what's happening tomorrow, right?
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# ? Mar 16, 2018 10:25 |
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quote:Wesfarmers is going back to the future spinning out Coles, but will it pay off?
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# ? Mar 16, 2018 10:26 |
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lol Craig McLachlan is using as a defence “my victim says oval office a lot and also is a sexual deviant” and the judge told him and Stuart littlemore to get hosed
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# ? Mar 16, 2018 10:26 |
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Cleretic posted:You know what's happening tomorrow, right? Labor will retain Batman?
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Edit: wrong thread
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# ? Mar 16, 2018 11:03 |
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Lol at Ian Goodenough prioritizing white people over his own race
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bandaid.friend posted:http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-16/persecuted-white-south-african-farmers-resettlement-gaining-mom/9556098 quote:"Violence and suffering affects all people universally," he told the ABC. Thanks rich white man, good to know.
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Anidav posted:The ABC’s main television and radio news bulletins should cover more human interest stories, local news and hip pocket issues, the managing director Michelle Guthrie has said. They already did this to the website and it was transparently designed to turn it away from constantly reporting on politics to barely covering it amongst a bunch of light entertainment. You have to make such an effort to see political reporting in Australia. Also gently caress Peter Dutton. Home Affairs immediately and constantly proves to be a terrible mistake that is only going to get worse.
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# ? Mar 16, 2018 12:21 |
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Does anyone else get the feeling like the Potato King is trying to set up a leadership challenge? There was the farmers thing and something else within the last couple of days (I'm tired and can't remember but it got him decent media attention), and he's dumb and we're near Newspoll 30...
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bell jar posted:Labor will retain Batman? Come on, man, all four people that care about the South Australian state election are really sad about you forgetting that.
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Whitlam posted:Does anyone else get the feeling like the Potato King is trying to set up a leadership challenge? There was the farmers thing and something else within the last couple of days (I'm tired and can't remember but it got him decent media attention), and he's dumb and we're near Newspoll 30... Probably. He's taking advantage of Turnbull's weakness to push through as much of his own agenda as he can. He's probably ambitious enough and stupid enough to want to have a shot at the PM's job.
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He's totally going to Gollum the Liberal leadership, just in time to go down with the ship.
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