Sunrise breached broadcasting rules in Indigenous adoption coverage, watchdog rules
Seven’s breakfast show Sunrise has been slammed by the industry regulator, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), for its discussion about Indigenous children and adoption.
ACMA found the segment was inaccurate and provoked racial contempt, however the broadcaster has hit out at the decision, saying political correctness is preventing meaningful discussion.
Conservative commentator Prue MacSween came under fire for her comments during the panel discussion.
Ridiculous to claim that political correctness is preventing meaningful discussion in this case. In order to have a meaningful discussion, it helps to get your facts right in the first place and have at least some understanding of the topic.
Seven’s handling of this sensitive and difficult topic was appalling. As a non-indigenous foster parent to an indigenous child who was involuntarily removed from her family, I’m well aware of the complexity of the issues and that there are many differing views about the best way forward.
There are ways to have a meaningful discussion about potential solutions. Seven definitely did not.
Excuses, excuses from channel seven !!! If they want to cover Indigenous issues of my people ….our Indigenous fellow Australians with big sweeping claims and insight opinions …they are obligated to have an Indigenous Australian person with a profession on Indigenous issues and even grass roots people on the ground, NOT AN ALL WHITE panel. Clear careless act for ratings. Was slanderous and prejudices to say the least.
You need to be careful with that phrase starting with “they are obligated …”. If that were indeed the case, then every panel discussion about Donald Trump would be “obligated” to have him on the panel to provide his point of view. It’s also naive to suggest that there is a single point of view on any of these issues within the indigenous community itself and that is an inevitable part of the problem in seeking to open this up to discussion.
Why are aboriginals allowed to call Anglo-Australian’s “White Fella’s’ in movies like the 2016 release of “Red Dog: True Blue” broadcast on free-to-air last weekend?
There’s a rise to unfair racism in this country, which often favors minority groups.