Aim of ABC NEWS WATCH

In a diversifying media landscape news editors face an increasingly difficult challenge reviewing the work of reporters under their supervision. Inevitably some mistakes, errors and substandard articles slip past their critical eyes.

The simple aim of ABC NEWS WATCH is to publicise the errors, omissions, and substandard reports produced by the News service and related entities of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). In doing so we hope to provide an independent check or audit on ABC news articles and in doing so improve the standard of ABC news reporting. After all its our ABC.

Saturday, June 16, 2012

Cracking ABC's chamber of secrets-review requested

Our request for a review of ABC's recent decision to withhold internal (non-program) correspondence requested under FOI that related to complaints about its misleading  and erroneous coverage of purported ANU death threats has been sent to the Information Commissioner.

Given it is successful we would expect ABC to provide a reasonable cost estimate for delivery of the documents. However based on the amount requested by ANU  to comply with the release of documents requested under FOI by Simon Turnhil, it seems ABC will have another card to play in their attempts to avoid public scrutiny and accountability.

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