Tuesday, June 26, 2007
ANTOINETTE HELPED
Reader “Blink” recently sent an email to Media Watch pointing out that Muslim Village, the program’s source for its June 18 attack piece, is guilty itself of publishing offensive comments. In response he received the following, apparently sent to him in error, as it appears to be the forwarding note from a Media Watch operative addressed to host Monica Attard and executive producer Tim Palmer:
We have had one or two like this re; Muslim Village (which is the forum on the Islamic Sydney site)
I have emailed this person back and told him to give me a call back to discuss the issue so I can explain that we wouldn’t be following up with a program about the posts on the ‘Islamic Sydney’ site as its our job to make comment on the media not individual sites.
True that someone from this site was helping Antoinette find other comments as she used to work with him.
That rule about “individual sites” is evidently flexible.
UPDATE. Jason Soon:
Let the ABC pay its own way and then it can come back and have another go at dictating standards for the rest of us. Privatise the ABC now!