Communications minister goes after ABC for airing Four Corners ‘Inside the Canberra bubble’ episode

Communications Minister Paul Fletcher has demanded the ABC answers why “the personal lives of politicians [are] newsworthy” following a recent Four Corners episode.

In a letter sent yesterday to the public broadcaster’s chair, Ita Buttrose, Minister Fletcher asked for responses to 15 questions within 14 days, including ‘Why does the board consider it appropriate that the privacy of the attorney-general and Minister Tudge … be compromised’ and ‘Does the board say that there are no such relationships involving Labor, Green or independent politicians?’