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Here’s the section of transcript removed by the ABC from yesterday’s AM broadcast:
EASTLEY: This woman has been lost for four years. Your officials dropped her off, by all accounts, dropped her off – the car was still moving perhaps – and no records have been kept as to where she was left in the Philippines, Minister.
SENATOR VANSTONE: With respect, with respect …
EASTLEY: It’s quite an extraordinary case.
SENATOR VANSTONE: … to what you’re just – what you’ve just said is extraordinary. It is extraordinary. You said she was dropped off by all accounts. On your own admission it’s by the account of one person who realised two days ago who she was and has [indistinct] …
EASTLEY: So you’re happy with the way this case has been handled, is that what you’re saying?
SENATOR VANSTONE: … conversations. No, I haven’t, I haven’t said that. I think it’s extraordinary that the ABC would make a suggestion that someone was dropped off when a car was moving. It is indicative of an attitude, but I’ll refrain from saying any more than that. The record does show what happened. The record shows she was returned to the Philippines and was met at the airport by the Overseas Women’s Welfare Association. That’s what the record shows.
EASTLEY: And from there, no record kept of where she went?
SENATOR VANSTONE: I don’t have advice that there is a subsequent record from that. But of course at the time, when people were of the view that she was a citizen of the Philippines, there would not be a further record kept.
EASTLEY: All right, we’ll leave it there. Senator Amanda Vanstone, the Immigration Minister.
SENATOR VANSTONE: Well I’d like to say thank you, but the suggestion from the ABC that the Australian Government would drop someone out of a moving car leaves me speechless.
EASTLEY: It was a comment said in jest, which was probably not appropriate.
SENATOR VANSTONE: Jest? On a matter like this? Help me please. I don’t think this is funny.
EASTLEY: Well it’s unbelievable, the entire story anyway as it goes.
SENATOR VANSTONE: It is a very difficult story. It is a very, very difficult situation.
It sure is – for Eastley, who had this to say at the end of the program:
EASTLEY: And before we go just a clarification on a comment made during the interview with Senator Amanda Vanstone: It’s of course no indication that Ms Alvarez was mistreated by Immigration Department officials when she was dropped off in the Philippines. I didn’t mean it in any other way.
How did he mean it? Meanwhile, The Age confirms it was indeed the ABC that censored its own interview:
ABC acting head of national programs Greg Wilesmith swiftly removed the interview’s controversial parts from the transcript and audio links on AM’s website.
“In the course of the interview and in the course of a question, Tony had made an error,” he told The Age yesterday.
“It seemed to us best to remove the error rather than allow the inaccuracy to stand.”
What inaccuracy? Tony said he was joking. Anyway, as both Tim Dunlop and Daily Flute have urged, let’s see what Media Watch has to say about this on Monday.
(transcript via the Dept. of Immigration)
Bad week for Media Watch, I’d reckon. Hot on the heels of the WSJ fiasco, they’ve no doubt been flooded by RWDBs demanding exposure of Eastley’s lamentable comment. MW’s reaction however, resembles a spooked kid ducking its head under the blankets. They’ve not updated their “Have Your Say” forum for 24 hours.
You have to give Eastley credit, the guy knows how to argue. The best way to change the subject when you’re caught out lying is to force your opponent to defend something outrageous that they never actually said:
“So you’re happy with the way the case has been handled, is that what you’re saying?”
Boy, if the ABC deleted sections from their recordings every time they got it wrong, you could fit the entire ABC radio archive in a shoebox.
You’re famous Tim!
“MEDIA WATCH is wrong, Media Watch knows that it is wrong, and Media Watch’s viewers know that Media Watch is wrong.”
- Tim Blair makes a fool of himself, May 2003Posted by W i l l i a m on 2005 05 12 at 11:22 PM • permalinkVia Crikey: Media Watch:
We stand by our story. The Wall Street Journal website (wsj.com) is a paid subscriber site, while OpinionJournal.com, which publishes Arthur Chrenkoff’s blogs, is a free site. Our point was that Janet Albrechtsen gave Arthur Chrenkoff’s blog a prestige and credibility it did not deserve. A Good News blog is not a substitute for good journalism that reports both the good and bad news from Iraq.
Oh my God! This is their point? Funny that none of this has been said earlier, not that it matters, the reasoning is utter bullshit. Chrenkoff’s blog didn’t ‘deserve’ prestige? Oh my God.
the URL
yourabcwatch.com is available
group blogg anyone?
Posted by knuckleheadwatch on 2005 05 12 at 11:49 PM • permalinkAm usually a fan of the ABC, but this is bizarre. Reminds me of a Simpsons episode (quote from ‘Sideshow Bob Roberts’)
Birch: “Mayor Quimby, you are well known, sir, for your lenient stance on crime, but suppose for a second that your house was ransacked by thugs, your family tied up in the basement with socks in their mouths, you try to open the door but there’s too much blood on the knob…”
Quimby: “What is your question?”
Birch: “My question’s about the budget, sir.”
Predictably, the moonbats immediately shouted “conspiracy” when learning of the transcript’s deletion, accusing the government of censoring the national broadcaster, heads must roll, blah de blah. Then, as soon as they realise that it was one of their own in the wrong and that their ABC initiated the cover up, it was all ok.
Nothing to see here people…
Nic — So basically, what we have is a pack of unskilled, unqualified people sucking off the public teat who can’t understand the concept of somebody giving something away for free?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 05 13 at 12:13 AM • permalinkThese propaganda cults don’t quit until the righteous fist of the people and the blogotariat have smashed them. Up over here in the USA, CBS News has done it again, quoted Ken Starr as saying, in regard to the “nuclear option” to forbid filibusters against judicial nominess, “This is a radical, radical departure from our history and from our traditions, and it amounts to an assault on the judicial branch of government. It may prove to have the kind of long-term boomerang effect, damage on the institution of the Senate that thoughtful senators may come to regret.”
Ken Starr says he was talking not about the “nuclear option” but about the practice of voting on judicial nominees based on their philosophy rather than on their integrity and experience. CBS New refuses to release the transcript.
The leftist progaganda cults don’t learn lessons against mendacity, except about how to be cleverer about it. There is nothing to do but to expose them remorselessly and call for dismissal of the mendacious and the dismissal of those in charge of them.
“transcript via the Dept. of Immigration”
Is this transcript somewhere on their website? Or do I have to make a specific request for it? I’d just rather not have to direct people to this revolting blog to read it.
Come to think of it, I don’t have to ask them for it, do I? I can just copy and paste it from your blog, since it’s publicly owned information.
Come to think of it, I don’t have to ask them for it, do I? I can just copy and paste it from your blog, since it’s publicly owned information.
You didn’t even have to post on this “revolting” blog to cut and paste; no one would have known or even cared (note the lack of trackbacks).
This tells me that you have an attention deficit, and rattled your cage so that we would be looking at you when you fling your feces at us.
That’s class, Bucky. Real class.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 05 13 at 04:03 AM • permalinki heard the interview live. the chronic bias was evident throughout the interview not just at the end when this offending phrase was spoken.
another example was having just been told their were conflicting versions of the drop off point and the dept had written records to prove their claims the journalist said “by ALL accounts she wasnt dropped off where you say she was” or equivalent words. This is what vanstone means by indicative of an attitude this was only the fool presenters worse offence. he had many others.
Posted by Astonished on 2005 05 13 at 04:04 AM • permalinkAs MediaWatch is all about defending the ideological commitments of the ABC it never criticises the ABC itself unless it infringes its own very high standards of political correctness.
Posted by David McBryde on 2005 05 13 at 08:27 AM • permalinkJust for anyone who cares, PM changed their transcripts after I followed up on an error. That was an error of fact, though, not an error of judgement. “It is indicative of an attitude”, go get ‘em Amanda. I’m going to use that line in the future when I’m interviewed by a public servant from the ABC.
Posted by Semi-conductor on 2005 05 13 at 05:09 PM • permalink
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