ABC News Watch: trivia

Friday, June 18, 2010

From the vault - Sometimes they are so trivial!

ABC News Online, 27 January 2009 Summary published: Friday 06, March 2009
Complaint: An online reader pointed out that the Brisbane suburb of Forest Lake was incorrectly described as “south of Brisbane."

Audience and Consumer Affairs response: The ABC acknowledged that Forest Lake is a suburb in Brisbane’s south-west.

http://www.abc.net.au/contact/corp_aud_upheld_March2009.htm

COMMENT: This one appears trivial but it still took over a month to sort out."From the Vault" - digging up past corrections and clarifications from the ABC archives.

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