ABC promises ‘nation-defining’ content for 2020
Content with more Australian faces, voices and stories than any other network is what ABC is promising for 2020, with the public broadcaster announcing local dramas, current affairs and factual programming on its slate for the next 12 months.
A docuseries with Bruce Pascoe, the writer of the award-winning novel Dark Emu, a new Shaun Micallef project, a documentary series on child abuse in the Catholic church, and returning favourites including Hard Quiz, Mad As Hell and You Can’t Ask That are all on the lineup for 2020, with director of entertainment and specialist Michael Carrington promising the broadcaster would be bold with its choices.
There’s more Australian content coming from the ABC in 2020
A new Shaun Micallef project, and they announce and promise “the broadcaster would be bold with its choices”. How many times do we have to see Micallef, in a ‘brand-new project’. The definition of bold is showing a willingness to take risks; confident and courageous. Having the same person in a ‘brand’ new project is not taking risks.
“Nation-defining”. Isn’t that code for Socialism? Or some -ism, whatever. That’s backed up by “Annabel Crabb teased it was now impossible to walk into the ABC without a keep cup”. If that’s not Right-Think, then I don’t know what is. If I’m not allowed to walk into a building without my wokeness on display in the form of a plastic sippy cup, then just call me Alan Jones.
And ‘Ferguson promised a “big, red, sharp sting in the tail”’ – Red like the USSR flag I presume? Or that Dolph Lundgren movie “Red Scorpion”? I could go on but I’m too triggered. The whole article is riddled with SEO terms for Q&A panellists.
Okay boomer
Cringe
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The intent seems to be to say ‘I’m dismissing your comment because you are too old’. If that was said about pretty much any other sector of our society, it would be deemed inappropriate.
For example – I’m dismissing your comment because you’re a woman / because you are gay / because you have curly hair / and so on.
Now you and the other two below who said the same thing are the originality of the Oz advertising industry writ large. I look forward to a raft of TV campaigns using this very catchprase in about say 9 months’ time.
““Nation-defining”. Isn’t that code for Socialism? Or some -ism, whatever.”
Trumpism ?
Ok Boomer!
ABC = Australian Broadcasting Communism
Ok Boomer
Bit rich to make the nation defining claim, who at the ABC feels entitled to define our nation – by all means pose a question & discuss it, just dont dress up opinion as fact.
ABC opinion on many matters have not always stood up to scrutiny.
There have been compelling questions raised about Pascoe’s indigenous heritage by the Daily Telegraph, and Pascoe has thus far refused to respond. I get the ideological leanings of that paper, but a genealogist traced his roots and if that research is accurate it does seem to cast serious doubt on Pascoe’s claim to have had a single great-grandmother being indigenous (which is a pretty weak link to claim indigenous heritage as-is, having one in eight of your great grandparents being indigenous.) If this becomes a wider news story, will that affect ABC’s decision on the documentary? There have also been serious and compelling claims made against Pascoe’s assertions in the book (there’s even a website “Dark Emu Exposed”) that seems set up to debunk many of his claims, but the bigger question is what if he in fact has no actual indigenous heritage at all? What would ABC’s response be – to still proceed and credit him as an indigenous author even if “technically” he isn’t?