ABC reveals plan to share regional content beyond emergency broadcasts
Hugh Marks answering a question about the diversity of his ABC leadership team
The ABC would like to make its content available to regional broadcasters and publishers according to managing director Hugh Marks.
Marks revealed his plan to extend a “major event” content sharing project currently in development in a Senate Estimates hearing yesterday.
In the same session, Marks revealed the total hard costs associated with the Antoinette Lattouf unfair dismissal case ($2.5m) and deflected criticisms about the diversity of the ABC board and how the broadcaster has covered the Middle East conflict.
Marks said he wanted to extend a project, announced last week, that will see the ABC giving away “major event” or emergency content.
Except this wasn’t “his” idea. Speak to the team from Deakin Uni who proposed this in a research project.
So aside from the AAP, which already ‘contributes’ to most Regional media, the ABC now wants to distribute it’s blatantly biased agenda too.
If this initiative was in fact penned by Deakin Uni, it would not surprise me in the least.
The Socialist takeover of Regional media and news narrative is in full swing.
It’s encouraging that the ABC seems to be giving serious thought to partnering with independent publishers. A handful of regionals have been involved in a content-sharing trial led by Deakin’s Kristy Hess and the ABC’s partnerships team over the past couple of months, and they aren’t the only conversations going on between Aunty and the indies, either.
It makes sense to me. Partnerships would allow the ABC to extend its reach to communities which fall in between its coverage areas, giving taxpayers more bang for their buck, while also demonstrating that the public broadcaster can be a collaborator, not just a competitor.
Wonderful – Anything to spread the Leftist ‘narrative’ a little more broadly 🙄
We already have AAP doing their best to spread their version of the truth into Regional areas. Now ABC wants to jump on the bandwagon too.
Of course Regional network operators, who are looking to slash & burn Independent Regional Journos, will lap up the opportunity to ‘outsource’ all of their mandated local news time.
Watch this space…