ABC lifts building security in the wake of threats following Monday’s Q&A episode
The ABC has lifted its security at its offices after receiving numerous threatening phone calls, in the wake of Monday’s Q&A which featured former terrorism suspect Zaky Mallah.
It is understood that many of the ABC’s major capital city offices have been restricted to staff only as a precautionary security measure after the ABC received more than 1000 viewer phone calls about the episode this week.
“Security has been stepped up at major ABC offices across Australia as a precautionary measure to protect the welfare of staff,” said an ABC spokesman. “There have been a number of threatening phone calls.”
The ABC would not be drawn on the details of the lift in security.
I imagine the irony is completely lost on these people making threats to the ABC about giving airtime to a ‘terrorist’….
“On Tuesday the ABC admitted the program “made an error in judgement” in allowing Mallah to join the Q&A audience and ask a question in the show”
And they made it again when beamed into SE Asia, then made it again when Q&A was repeated in toto.
Just how many errors can one organisation make before it starts to become less of an error and more of a strategy?
Anybody can make a mistake. I think the ABC did when they said they had made an error in judgement in allowing Mallah on the show. He has written for The Australian and the Courier-Mail without there being any repercussions. He has also been on a number of TV shows without anyone complaining.
Maybe this time it was different. A number of News Corporation newspapers inexplicably linked the ABC to terrorists in the Middle East. Now that was an error of judgment if ever there has been one.
The Australian public made an error of judgement when they voted these neo-con baboons in to power in 2013 (with apologies to all baboons).