Scott Mitchell
@scottmitchell
Former: Exec Producer of the 7am podcast, one of the Hungry Beasts, producer of You Can’t Ask That and digital lead within ABC News.
The SMH is actually just factually wrong, conflating two different examples Segal used. The 14,000 babies had nothing to do with SBS and the Gaza health ministry.
Nine newspapers, always so desperate to not call anything racism. There were white supremacists organisers, urging people onto the streets to “protect the future of white youth” — as reported by WIRED. But the Nine Newspapers: it wasn’t racist! Brilliant stuff, fellas.
The big brains of Australian media on racial pogroms in Northern Ireland. ‘He’s coming up to the first hurdle… he’ll want to have a good start, it’s the complexity of race politics after this… can he clear it?’
What is with Guardian Australia on this story? “Let’s interview each other at the same time.” “How do you feel about the fact that they hired Grace Tame after all of that?” 2 stories, 2000 words and the 'more context' brigade can't find the space to tell their readers the actual exchange.
ABC comms must be so happy with Guardian Australia. Found “himself subjected to a barrage of questions”, “Pickering did a good job” “clipped up” Pickering in the actual full clip: “let’s interview eachother at the same time.” Gee. What an ambush, how unfortunate to find himself in that situation.
Lamestream has collaborated with the brilliant team at Norwegian paper DN, on their latest Epstein investigation. It lays out even more about Jeffrey Epstein, Ehud Barak and the broker of the Oslo accords, Terje Rod-Larsen -- and their plots to influence world affairs. www.dn.no/magasinet/do...
After Hugh Marks said this on the ramshackle, management-run radio broadcast, Patrick called in. Have a listen to Patrick:
This is the most disgraceful thing Albanese has said as prime minister imo. He went to maybe the most famously Lebanese suburb in Australia, to pose with people like props while their homeland is being invaded — then turns around and defames them. Shame on him.
Erin Molan shares moving tribute to players on the eve of NRL Las Vegas.
Mark Calvert being so butt hurt he writes an essay about how Sky News’ chequebook is the real victim in all of this is the funniest and most embarrassing piece of Australian journalism in a long time.
Lot of signs we’ve gone through the looking glass. Haydos going full Bob Katter is one of them.
Setting aside how asinine this take is: a fact-check. Pretty much every mainstream Mamdani take repeats the idea that this shows that 'very left' New York is going further left. Just because New York is very Democratic, doesn't mean it's friendly turf for left-wing candidates?
As I said, regarding another instance of this recently, it's a values issue when the Guardian fails to attribute/mention independent media who scooped it days ago. You can't fail to mention Lamestream and Ette had this correspondence days ago -- then run a half-page pop-up that says this.
In the latest, very defensive version of this ‘Hamas statement’ reporting — is the SMH saying it didn’t even know their source was in an Israeli prison before we sent them a questions? How is that possible? It’s a 5 minute google?
Fantastic journalism from the Sydney Morning Herald. No notes. Who is telling the truth??? Don't know if there are any facts that could help us get to the bottom of this one!
Welp, the 'enough is enough' moment for the media on Gaza was good while it lasted. Glad everyone got to feel good by doing some hand-wringing about starving children! Hope you got it out of your system, because that's also not allowed now and is hamas propaganda.
Oh, gender and culture? Yep, also those jobs are cut under the plan his MD rolled out last month.
Williams frames the piece around history. The ABC tells our stories, and it's never been more important to hae a shared understanding of history. Is this guy aware he just approved cutting the jobs of the people that write articles about history for ABC News?
So Kim Williams has made his first public comments since the Lattouf findings, in an opinion piece published in The Saturday Paper. Some thoughts...
In my view, ABC management owes both Mashni and the public some rectification. In particular, letting all staff know that voices like his are welcome and in fact NEEDED for the ABC to cover what is happening accurately. The current answer falls short:
1. Mashni is said to have made a minor factual inaccuracy. This, imo, would be an extremely high bar to enforce for posting interviews. How many politicians or spokespeople regularly make minor factual errors in interviews that are uploaded regularly?
Some ABC tea on now-departed MD David Anderson and a staff note towards the end of his tenure. (From the first edition of our newsletter, which is up on the website for free — but subscribe for more goss to your inbox every week.)
Going to hold onto this characterisation, and compare to findings.
Later that day, after this e-mail has been sent, the ABC MEAA union house committee meets. They are still concerned and say the below about the filing. In their resolution they demand the ABC drops its argument Lattouf must prove Lebanese/Arab/Middle Eastern people can be subject to discrim
Staff receive this email 'clarifying' the filing, and it's leaked to several journalists. The explanation blames the Lattouf legal team's filings and how "some" "may" have "interpreted" them. It does not concede on the wording of the ABC's own filing.
Counsel for the ABC file this about the race portion of the case, and it becomes public on the first day of the trial.
Impartiality and how balance is achieved, is not a vague thought or contention at the ABC. It is codefied. There's a definitive answer in the editorial policy. But nothing is being contended in relation to this.
I wonder how the Herald-Sun came across this story, It couldn't possibly be from a Ronn Bechler, could it? Who posted this a couple of months ago? Bechler seemed to be interested in informing all of Wellspring's funders about what he'd found while trawling this woman's posts.