Watchdog clears AbbottLovesAnal Q&A slip and sweary Four Corners show of standards breach
Producers of ABC shows Q&A and Four Corners have escaped censure after complaints about the Twitter handle @AbbottLovesAnal and phrase “cunt-struck” being broadcast in their respective shows.
The tweet at the centre of the controversy.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) cleared the Q&A broadcast of August 24 where the controversial handle, referring to then Prime Minister Tony Abbott, made it to air.
One of the complaints about the incident read: “I wish only to have it on record my absolute disgust at the ‘Abbottlovesanal’ tweet displayed on Q&A Monday evening. Childish behaviour that has no place in Australian broadcasting let alone a taxpayer funded one.”
I bet if this took place a couple of years ago and said @gillardlovesanal the result would have been different.
Agree Spinner. ABC is definitely biased. The same thing with Cate McGregor, a friend of Tony Abbott. Those transphobic tweets allowed through. Willing to bet if McGregor was a friend of Bill Shorten, they never would have been published.
The ACMA has shown partisanship in this decision as though it is an extension of the ABC itself, but will go after the Macquarie radio announcers with glee. It is obvious that if the ABC staffer saw the tweet and let it through, that person should be sacked. If that person didn’t see the tweet and just let it through, he/she should be still be sacked for not doing the job, especially something as disgusting as this tweet was. In fact the ABC should redeem itself and offer to finance Abbot to sue the tweeter for defamation.
Those who constantly claim the ABC is biased have been proved wrong many times while they have never been proved right.