The ABC fans the flames of hatred in Australia. By Chris Kenny in The Australian.
The crisis of antisemitism in this country and the rest of the Western world cannot reasonably be assessed without reference to the media dynamics that have helped create an environment of anti-Israel sentiment. …
Commissioner Virginia Bell [Albanese’s woke choise to head the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion, after the Bondi massacre] cannot ignore the role of the ABC, SBS and other media if she is to seriously examine the fomenting of antisemitism and pay due respect to the submissions before her. …
Downplaying the genocidal barbarity of Hamas on Oct. 7:
Former foreign correspondent for The Age and senior producer for CNN Augustine Zycher … details how the ABC and SBS have “displayed a pattern of omitting critical reporting and evidence about the Conflict-Related Sexual Violence war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Hamas”. …
“When you remove the full truth about the massacre and the sexual violence, the reasons for the conflict become distorted, it is no longer presented as a war instigated by Hamas with a barbaric assault on Israeli civilians.”
Instead of the war being perceived as Israel’s effort to defeat Hamas and free hostages, the distorted coverage promotes the Hamas propaganda narrative about a war against Palestinian civilians. “This has effectively contributed to the demonisation of Israel and Jews,” her submission contends. “It directly feeds the hate expressed in weekly demonstrations and propaganda against Israel and ‘Zionists’.” …
Playing the sympathy card for their side:
Katherine Mannix is a former senior researcher for ABC Television … identified how relentless coverage of the war has been reduced to “human interest” coverage. “The ‘human interest’ shown invariably involved dead Palestinian children, distraught Palestinian mothers and those allegedly starving, with commentary that primarily described that suffering.
“There is an argument for human interest stories, but not in the news and not consistently from one side during a war,” Mannix explains. “In effectively presenting Hamas’ case to the Australian public on a nightly basis, while seeking the appearance of objectivity, ABC news reporters contributed to an environment where Jews were portrayed not as the victims but the victimisers, the genocidal murderers of children.” …
Lying by omission:
She detailed, with supportive evidence, how Hamas had infiltrated aid agencies and distorted coverage, including through staged photographs promoting the starvation narrative. “There was ample evidence that the claims of starvation were overstated, and that hunger in Gaza was more to do with Hamas’s looting than Israeli actions,” says Mannix.
You would not know these facts if you only watched, read or listened to the ABC. Remember, the national broadcaster ran that absurdly implausible and completely erroneous claim that 14,000 babies would die within 48 hours in Gaza unless Israel supplied immediate aid (it later corrected this damaging nonsense). …
Supporting Islam:
“There is no doubt that the ABC’s biased, hate-filled news coverage over the last two years gave significant assistance to the dreadful cause of Islamic extremism, to its adherents, and to its unthinking local followers.”
Other people who have made submissions on these themes prefer to remain anonymous. One of them, a member of the Jewish community, eloquently expresses how the public status of the ABC and SBS gives them disproportionate authority –- so that “When they repeatedly frame Jewish communal concerns as political lobbying, Zionism as a morally suspect identity, Israeli self-defence as presumptively illegitimate, and antisemitism as self-inflicted or secondary to other forms of racism, those frames move from radical activist discourse into mainstream Australian society”. …
The response?
Against the weight of this evidence, the submission from ABC Alumni seems puny, intellectually constrained and self-serving. …
it does not explain why Russians are not pilloried on our streets for their army’s actions in Ukraine. Nor are Chinese Australians pilloried for People’s Liberation Army persecution of Uighurs and Buddhists.
The ABC coordinates the left and wokeness in this country. So the leftists all know that the place to be publicly is to be anti-Israeli and to call Gaza a genocide. Tax dollars well spent?? How long will the ABC last under a Hanson-supported government?