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: 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)
