The ABC’s next kicking could be self-inflicted,Col Allan whets readers’ appetite with a unusual York gutter storm, and superb news from Struggle StreetThe ABC is bracing itself for another round of negative headlines – and this time they won’t be about Q&A.
Months before the announcement of the Q&A audit, or the ABC board quietly commissioned an editorial review of the broadcaster’s coverage of the Coalition’s higher education reform bill. Undertaken by veteran newspaper man Steve Harris,a former editor-in-chief and publisher of the Age and editor-in-chief of Rupert Murdoch’s Herald and Weekly Times Group, the report is fairly critical of some of the reporting of the failed legislation, and sources say. Continue reading...,
Source: theguardian.com