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Friday, July 28, 2006
No balance in treatment of forest complaints at the ABC
After mega bucks were spent by woodchipping industry lawyers, the Australian Communications and Media Authority has criticised the 2004 ABC Four Corners program for using ‘emotive’ language.But when right wing columnist Michael Duffy’s ABC radio program allowed more than a dozen factual errors in favour of the logging industry to go to air a year later in April 2005, no action was taken. This wasn’t a question of emotive language – basic facts were wrong. What’s more, there wasn’t even an attempt at balance on Duffy’s show. In over 2000 words on the topic, no view other than that of the loggers was put to air. Compare that to the acres of air time given to the logging industry in the Four Corners special.
After complaints made to the ABC, Duffy was forced to put one correction on his website - which simply repeated the error - but all other mistakes and biases in the program remain uncorrected.
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