grodscorp@grods.comBreaking news: Today Tonight has no journalistic ethics
 | Posted by The Editor on Wednesday 13 February 2008, 7:45 pm Categories: Media Tags: AndrewBolt, ethics, journalism, MediaLiteracy, TodayTonight |
Andrew Bolt is the associate editor of Australia’s highest selling newspaper. He writes a bi-weekly column in that paper and authors a very popular blog on that paper’s website. He is a regular guest on dozens on television and radio shows. Despite your take on his views you must conclude that he is an intelligent man. Yet Bolta is surprised — nay — shocked that Channel Seven’s cesspit “current affairs” program, Today Tonight, has played silly buggers with an interview he provided and quoted him out of context.
Remind me to be much more careful before agreeing to appear on a Today Tonight piece, especially if it’s about the “stolen generations”.
I was asked to discuss Bruce Trevorrow’s big compensation payout for being a member of the “stolen generations”.
I explained in snappy bites the reasons why this case - desperately tragic though it was - was not proof of the “stolen generations” at all.
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None of this was included in the interview. The only comments I was allowed to make were ones denying the existence of a “stolen generation” - as if I had no idea there was a Trevorrow who was the living proof I was wrong.
This was no accident. Today Tonight wanted to present an “exclusive” - the first “stolen generations” victim to get compensation, and nothing was allowed to disturb the narrative.
Perhaps there might be a role in schools for the media literacy lessons that Bolta so despises.
GrodsThink Ep.31 (16/9/08)
Wednesday 13 February 2008, 8:53 pm #Mikey
Oh the irony.
‘I’ve been quoted out of context and had my facts massaged!’
Tee hee. Did he manage to keep his legs together for this one?
Wednesday 13 February 2008, 8:56 pm #Bruce
Perhaps there might be a role in schools for the media literacy lessons that Bolta so despises.
Let’s face it, Andrew’s not alone in any of this. The whole Right Culture Warrior Collective (given their case of reciprocal auto-plagiarism I think this is a fair call) has been down on any form of reading comprehension ever since Liberal Governments (State and Federal) shoe-horned them into the debate.
Wednesday 13 February 2008, 9:16 pm #krypto
bolta vs TT, whoever wins…humanity loses!!
Wednesday 13 February 2008, 9:43 pm #Which one is Pink?
bolta vs TT, whoever wins…humanity loses!!
Yes, could it be like Celebrity Death Match?
But seriously give the guy a break. He has been making himself look like a buffoon all day. Unlike his blog that he edits when it suits (The Iraq War Is Won), he can’t control everything.
Wednesday 13 February 2008, 10:09 pm #Damian
Bruce’s “reciprocal auto-plagiarism” is spot on.
Wednesday 13 February 2008, 10:45 pm #Wah
Today Tonight’s radio ad for this story was appalling in linking this case and sorry with compensation.
Bruce Trevorrow’s case has been independent of the apology. If you look at it closely, his compensation was for the abusive treatment he received after he was removed for his mother - not for being stolen.
There’s a big difference.
Wednesday 13 February 2008, 10:49 pm #Bruce
Bruce’s “reciprocal auto-plagiarism” is spot on.
Feel free to manually plagiarise it. ;-)
Wednesday 13 February 2008, 11:41 pm #Bruce
Bruce Trevorrow’s case has been independent of the apology.
And the case predates the apology to boot. (It’s also against the SA Government, not the Federal Government)