tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330650666541115497.post6268791946060030358..comments2023-11-03T23:33:41.347+11:00Comments on ABC News Watch: Failure at ABC24Marc Hendrickxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13764038599250494228noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330650666541115497.post-47752388874251010552011-05-04T08:34:45.100+10:002011-05-04T08:34:45.100+10:00Apparently ABC News 24 coverage was 20 minutes beh...Apparently ABC News 24 coverage was 20 minutes behind commercial News services. So not quite as quick.<br /><br />From today's Australian..."Given News Limited's corporate investment in the successful Sky News channel (which went to the bin Laden story 20 minutes before the ABC's 24-hour news channel) it would perhaps be in The Australian's commercial interests to leave the ABC to its lumbering ways. But we are fiercely concerned about the stewardship of taxpayers' money and the ABC's ability to perform its proper duty in the national interest."Marc Hendrickxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13764038599250494228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330650666541115497.post-75318560277903205862011-05-04T07:32:20.976+10:002011-05-04T07:32:20.976+10:00Er... I think you'll find that editorial was p...Er... I think you'll find that editorial was primarily critical of the delay to switch to coverage on the main ABC channel, not ABC 24. I was flicking between ABC 24 and the commercials at the time and it looked to me like ABC 24 was just as quick to break the news as they were.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com