‘Inaccurate’: ACMA raps Four Corners over cotton fire coverage
Four Corners reporter Angus Grigg presented the offending program
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has found an episode of Four Corners has fallen foul of the ABC’s code of practice.
The Four Corners episode Water Grab was aired in August 2024, and was found to have breached the “accuracy and impartiality provisions” in the code.
ACMA said the program, which examined the role of the Northern Territory government in facilitating water licenses for the growing of cotton, “inaccurately conveyed” that the operators of Claravale pastoral station illegally used fire to clear land for cotton production without approval.
