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Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has been rightly critical of our government, and has been hit with pay cut after pay cut.

mmm_grayons 6y ago
> rightly Case in point about the difficulty in covering politics in a manner most would consider neutral.
- quintushoratius 6y ago
  One could argue that a journalist's duty is to be critical of the government, regardless of the specifics. The ABC might still be considered neutral.
Khaine 6y ago
The ABC are not neutral. They lean centre left. Our current government is conservative, of course they are critical of it. This is the same ABC that reports on the BLM protests in Australia, is happy to parrot the 434 Aboriginals have died in custody since 1991, but fails to include the facts[1]: 58% of deaths were due to natural causes 32% of deaths were due to hanging 5% of deaths were due to drugs/alcohol 4% were due to external trauma In total, 9 Aboriginals have died in custody from unlawful acts from custodial staff. 10s of thousands of people are violating social distancing orders, because 9 people have been killed unlawfully since 1991. The ABC AREN'T REPORTING THAT. Instead, they have activist after activist deriding the system that is killing black men. It's all bullshit. In 2019, the Australian Institute of Criminology did a study on deaths in custody, and its conclusion was: Indigenous people are now less likely than non-Indigenous people to die in custody, largely due to a decrease in the death rate of Indigenous prisoners from 1999–2000 to 2005–06.[1] So don't go around telling people the ABC isn't biased. [1] https://aic.gov.au/publications/sb/sb17 https://aic.gov.au/publications/sb/sb17 EDIT: To be clear, this doesn't mean there aren't things we should be doing better, given that Aboriginals make up 28% of the prison population, its just that the current narrative openly being pushed by the ABC and others is pure, unadulterated bullshit.

mmm_grayons 6y ago

> rightly Case in point about the difficulty in covering politics in a manner most would consider neutral.

quintushoratius 6y ago
One could argue that a journalist's duty is to be critical of the government, regardless of the specifics. The ABC might still be considered neutral.

Khaine 6y ago

The ABC are not neutral. They lean centre left. Our current government is conservative, of course they are critical of it. This is the same ABC that reports on the BLM protests in Australia, is happy to parrot the 434 Aboriginals have died in custody since 1991, but fails to include the facts[1]: 58% of deaths were due to natural causes 32% of deaths were due to hanging 5% of deaths were due to drugs/alcohol 4% were due to external trauma In total, 9 Aboriginals have died in custody from unlawful acts from custodial staff. 10s of thousands of people are violating social distancing orders, because 9 people have been killed unlawfully since 1991. The ABC AREN'T REPORTING THAT. Instead, they have activist after activist deriding the system that is killing black men. It's all bullshit. In 2019, the Australian Institute of Criminology did a study on deaths in custody, and its conclusion was: Indigenous people are now less likely than non-Indigenous people to die in custody, largely due to a decrease in the death rate of Indigenous prisoners from 1999–2000 to 2005–06.[1] So don't go around telling people the ABC isn't biased. [1] https://aic.gov.au/publications/sb/sb17 https://aic.gov.au/publications/sb/sb17 EDIT: To be clear, this doesn't mean there aren't things we should be doing better, given that Aboriginals make up 28% of the prison population, its just that the current narrative openly being pushed by the ABC and others is pure, unadulterated bullshit.