Comment on ABC pulls interview with Palestine advocate from website and iview
sqgl@beehaw.org 3 weeks agoThe Post is literally summarised here with:
During the interview, Nasser Mashni made a pointed remark that it was time ‘for Palestine to be free, from the river to the sea’
That could well be why the interview was pulled. One could argue whether that slogan is sinister or not. If sinister they could have aired it without the slogan (but some would argue against platforming someone with that view).
These are the actual issues it seems, certainly not whataboutism.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Ah interesting. That edited statement was not there when I first read the article. Frankly, I don’t believe the ABC’s claim. If it were true, that’s an answer that could easily have been provided in time for publication. They’ve come up with a post-hoc excuse after seeing how much play this story was getting. They had initially hoped to quietly acquiesce to the pro-genociders without attracting as much attention as the last time they did so.
sqgl@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
And since they went through the bother of “accidentally” uploading it, why did they go through the extra bother to remove it?
They play both sides. Am sure they have their own internal battles of which side to support since they do not seem consistent to me.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
From what I can tell, the average ABC worker is on the right side of this. But ABC management seems to have a direct line to the genocide supporters. And when the Israel lobbyists tell Kim Williams (or formerly Ita Buttrose) to jump, he (she) asks “how high?” We only need look at the Lattouf case or, less sensationally, Sandy Gutman, to see that.
That’s why what repeatedly happens is the right thing happens at first. Then management gets wind of it, usually because of DMs from lobbyists, and orders a reversal.
In this case, I think what probably happened is it got uploaded as normal. Because that’s what they do. Any vaguely interesting segment of television gets uploaded to their website and iView. Then the Israel lobby saw it, saw that he was calling out their genocide, and got on the like to Williams or Hugh Marks or someone else on the board or management, and they sent down the instruction to nix it.
Ilandar@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Didn’t Media Watch report on this exact phenomenon earlier this year?
sqgl@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
The average worker is Left wing and therefore agrees with your and Hamas’ position. I am left but often disagree with them on the Gaza issues. In fact their dodgy reporting on Al Ahli hospital early lost them their credibility.
I have not seen any news organisation consistently report “fairly”. The only examplenof even handedness was a pair of entries from a blogger a couple.of months in (probably still valid - let me know if it has dated)…
…medium.com/israel-has-lost-the-war-d7b9b3934f73
…medium.com/hamas-has-lost-the-war-5bea9813fcf3