ABC’s Chris Kenny dog broadcast breached rules, says media watchdog
The ABC breached broadcasting standards when The Hamster Decides aired a satirical image of The Australian’s Chris Kenny having intercourse with a dog, the communications watchdog has ruled.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority has vindicated Kenny’s aggressive pursuit of the public service broadcaster after The Chaser team first aired the item in September last year.
The broadcast was part of The Hamster Decides show and was a co-production with The Chaser’s production company Giant Dwarf. The episode featured a clip of Kenny criticising the ABC on Sky News before showing the doctored image and labelling him “Chris ‘dog fucker’ Kenny”.
Initially the ABC defended the broadcast. As well as complaining to the ACMA, Kenny took the ABC to court, resulting in an apology from MD Mark Scott and on air. Costs and some damages were also paid at the beginning of this month.
A much better read…
http://junkee.com/in-defence-o.....-dog/19967
Take its licence away.
The ABC might be well advised to address the question of satire. Otherwise all the nation’s dog fXckers will be on this tram.
Some people just do not understand when a joke is a joke and they become jerks.
It was a joke. Methinks Tazer Boy doth protest too much.!
Ya don’t say? Mark Scott needs to go.
The only downside from this is that the ABCs budget wasn’t reduced by $800M.
Time to scale it back, and fade to black. It was relevant in 1934. It’s irrelevant in 2014.
Think about it Mick. The ABC audience is not interested in Right Wing bias. So if it was not there most of the ABC audience would drift to the news sites which are more to the left than the Murdoch press. The commercial reality would be the advertisers would follow. Less money for Murdoch and more for his competitors is not something the mad right would want to see happening.
Not wanting to spoil the fun but anyone who thinks the ABC is not a sacred cow had better get out more. No pollie will ever take it on. Not ever. Because it is extremely popular. Of course Scott is useless. And of course there is a real problem with its news culture (more about dominant factions than ideology by the way). But there is zero chance of a crusader like slaughter of the apostate lefties.
It is only the mad right who find fault with the ABC. They only have one real problem. It is not biased to the right.