What we learnt from ABC panic over Antoinette Lattouf

Australia’s public publisher should set standard for solid journalism and, most importantly, support the people who produce it.

Instead, the turning point of this week, the Federal Court, finds an illegal action signed by the executives firing from the lobbyists to firing from Antoinette Lattouf from ABC.

The short version of the events shares the dismissal of a human rights monitoring task that Lattouf shares in his social media accounts with the title of “HRW reporting hunger” for a five -day period planned as a filling host in ABC’s. Sydney mornings In December 2023.

However, considering the decision of ABC to go to court, considering that an internal correspondence, deposits and witnesses from the highest levels of the public broadcaster, we know that the complaints have begun to roll before this task and we put the management on a high alarm.

Many of these complaints conducted an investigation by an investigation into the Sydney Opera House cheers. Crirase In the days before Lattouf’s hosting slot, Lattouf’s common line and our assistant editor Cam Wilson.

The story was later supported by an investigation by NSW police.

In the judgment, justice darryl rangah, including the quotes, including collective complaints Crirase‘The story caused a great surprise between the top management of ABC ”.

This astonishment has turned into what can be defined as a panic state ”.

The e-mail trail is completely Panic Bare status, as a series of managers, David Anderson, ABC Chief Content Responsible Chris Oliver-Taylor and then ABC Simon Melkman’da release manager Crirase Article as “problematic”.

However, after fully reviewing the story, the story is considered as “balanced and solid as a journalist ..

Oliver-Taylor would later write an e-mail of the notes sent to him: “[The] The main lightning rod is contentious journalism Crirase. This was a ‘reality -based, research -based’ article. “

. Crirase Investigation – In addition to Lattouf’s other social media publications, quotations from Lattouf, Women’s agendaand ultimately a media inquiry Australia – He became a part of a change about “perception arasında among the managers, he would have resolved complaints and ultimately the urges of ın defeat the story”. None of them was about real journalism.

While this change was played for days, Lattouf remained on the air, after being warned against complaints, and manufacturers “Antoinette, preparing to distribute the DUMP button while calling for speech, because a motivated mastrector can lead to the air by saying that they will talk about something.

Ultimately, justice ruled Rangah, Lattouf’s decision to ignite the pro -Israeli lobbyists, to calm the complaints of a presentation about a presenter who perceived that they have anti -Semitic and anti -Israeli views in such a public position ”.

Unlike most commercial sales points, ABC is subject to a meticulous account of public complaints. They are also accused of indefinitely defined responsibility of social adaptation. However, contrary to most commercial sales points, they are supported by state financing, corporate memory and expertise, open governance structures, bureaucracy, solid editorial processes, special journalists and producers and tremendous public confidence. Instead, an extreme chair, shyness in the face of lobby pressure, and a great fear of News Corp, a reputable disaster and a morale -free labor force.

Meanwhile, the silence of the government is remarkable. What seems to be a pleasant departure from the coalition governments that lay the boot (now contributed significantly to a cooked shy layer to the publisher), as a result, ABC does not do any favor.

The newly printed General Manager Hugh Marx announced that ABC is “disappointed our staff and viewers ve and caused the issue to be“ expressing concerns about the independence and integrity of ABC ”.

“Any excessive impact or pressure on any of the ABC administration or employees should always be protected against the opposite.”

The inclusive purpose of any news output is to produce constantly standing alone, despite the intense pressure from the ABC executives, despite the intense pressure arising from any lobby that must confront the news rooms. Readers expect us to hold our nerves and pursue our journalists in pursuit of public interest. Antoinette is like the rest of the hardworking journalists in ABC.

The personnel in the public broadcaster felt an obvious feeling of relaxation with a measure of hope enough to change.

We will watch news rooms everywhere, including ours.