The Oz apologises to itself, on behalf of the ABC
What is it they say? If at first you can’t get an apology from someone… just go and write your own?
Dr Mumbo was pleased to see The Australian launch a new weekly column in its media section in which it publishes faux apologies containing what the national broadsheet feels the ABC should have said.
As the newspaper explains: “The ABC has refused to publish corrections for its errors, so, from this week, we will begin a column where we publish clarifications on behalf of the ABC.”
Just plain sad. As hard as the Aus tries it stays in the bunker.
Sad? It’s hysterical. You couldn’t write a better comedy script.
The Aus do seem to be getting stuck in the bunker a lot of recent.
Is it their institutional, right wing mind set that is finding it hard to accept criticism about their cause? Me thinks it is.
Like many ideological institutions who seem sheltered to real life events – they come out fighting for their cause, time and time again, aggressive, fighting, only caring for their outcome, no empathy for the ‘opposition’.
Perhaps if they changed the name of The Australian to ‘The LNP Fan Mail’ that would then give them a clearer platform to yell from?
The Oz is as right as the ABC is, left.
you will learn this as you grow older, kiddies.
This was a hilarious column. It’s great to see some personality coming out of the newspaper. The ABC does have a paywall, it’s called our taxes.
What has happened to this column? It only seems to have lasted two editions.