ABC’s Catalyst breached impartiality rules with beef report, rules watchdog
An ACMA investigation has found the ABC’s Catalyst science program breached its own Code of Practice in the show ‘Feeding Australia: Foods of Tomorrow’.
The program, which focused on sustainable food production, failed to present the production of beef with due impartiality, ACMA ruled. The ABC has said it disagrees with the decision.
We’re a nation with a big appetite & as the population moves towards 40 million it’s only going to get bigger.
I think it will be a rare argument that stops people buying steak or beef roast or hamburger, not to forget a good old “red gum” to boil up with potatoes, carrots, peas and mustard sauce.
… so let’s understand this … once again Catalyst has been questioned and a formal complaint raised which the ABC rejected. The complaint was then taken up with the broadcast regulator, the ACMA, and their decision was that the “ABC has breached the impartiality provisions of its own Code of Practice”. However, the ABC has decided that it is both defendant, judge and jury and “respectfully” tells the ACMA to take a running jump because they “disagree” with their “view”. Presumably when ABC staff get speeding tickets they do the same thing and tell the cops that they “disagree” with their “view” too? Why do we have a broadcast regulator if the ABC feels it can simply ignore them?
I think your confirmation bias is showing a little…
The ABC (rightly or wrongly) disagreed with the decision that it breached their own codes of practice. They are hardly their own judge and jury.
ACMA has the ability to hand down a penalty, but it states “it did not require further action from the broadcaster”.