ABC Tasmania has just had to switch to ABC News NSW with Juanita Philips saying ‘Welcome to our Tasmanian viewers who have just joined us due to technical problems.’ Wonder if anyone can get caps in Tasmania
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I thought it would have made more sense for Tasmania to get the Victorian bulletin?
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Which I’m pretty sure usually happens… perhaps a breakdown at MediHub? I didn’t have the Tv on earlier enough. Just caught the “welcome to Tasmanian viewers”
As at 19.18 the feed abruptly cut to the Tas bulletin again with an apology from Peter G.
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Paul Higgins back presenting weather in Victoria tonight, after taking last week off.
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Tuesday 8 May
8:00pm Budget 2018: An ABC News Special
Leigh Sales presents unrivalled Budget coverage with analysis & reaction from the most trusted political team including Andrew Probyn, Annabel Crabb, Barrie Cassidy, Laura Tingle, Ian Verrender, Emma Alberici & Greg Jennett.
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Canberra’s news was presented from the National War Memorial tonight.
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Matthew Carney was live in Victoria from the Korean border tonight, but slightly different pre-recorded packages in NSW and Queensland…
Victoria:
New South Wales:
Queensland:
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Statement in ABC News breaches impartiality rules
A statement contained in an ABC News report breached the impartiality provisions of the ABC Code of Practice (the code), the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has found.
The ACMA investigated a complaint about an ABC News report, broadcast nationally on 10 October 2017, covering a climate change speech by former prime minister the Hon. Tony Abbott, MP to the Global Warming Policy Foundation think tank.
The investigation found the report generally demonstrated fair treatment and open-mindedness in the way it presented Mr Abbott’s views on climate change over time.
However, a statement made to camera by the ABC’s political editor that Mr Abbott was ‘the most destructive politician of his generation’ was declarative and not in keeping with the scope of the factual matters presented earlier in the report.
The ACMA considered the statement judgemental, not in language considered as analysis and one that the ordinary reasonable viewer would have understood as a pejorative descriptor. As a result, the ACMA found a breach of Standard 4.1 of the code, in that the report was not presented with due impartiality.
‘The impartiality provisions in the ABC’s own code require it to demonstrate balance and fair treatment when presenting news, and avoid conveying a prejudgement’ said ACMA Chair Nerida O’Loughlin.
‘This is only the second breach by the ABC of its impartiality rules since 2011. While this demonstrates strong compliance with these important provisions of the code, the ABC did not get it right on this occasion,’ Ms O’Loughlin said.
The ABC has advised the ACMA that ABC News will incorporate the ACMA finding into its editorial compliance training programs. The ACMA accepts this as an appropriate action by the ABC in the circumstances.
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James Hancock presenting weather in Victoria tonight.
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Pretty sure that image is the first one that comes up when you search “Eureka Tower” in google images…
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James Hancock again presenting weather in Victoria tonight.
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Some minor hiccups in Queensland tonight. A “Coming Up” plasma screen graphic was displayed midway through a report tonight for about 30 seconds as the report continued to roll underneath. After it had gone, the bulletin continued relatively as normal except no supers for the rest of the bulletin.
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Paul Higgins presents the Victorian bulletin tonight but leaves to James Hancock to present the weather.
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