ABC BS

[angra]

"US teachers take up arms after mass shootings" screams the ABC in a needlessly sensational report.

Well there were 200 teachers in Utah who reportedly signed up for free 'gun training' at the Utah Shooting Sports Council.

And pro-gun politicians in Arizona, Florida, Minnesota, Oregon, South Dakota and Tennessee have also vowed to propose legislation in the coming months that would allow for armed teachers in schools.

So not exactly a mass uprising of US teachers demanding assault weapons. More likely just a few hundred dildos in a few redneck states giving the expected knee-jerk reaction to Fox reports.

By the same logic, Australia should have nuclear weapons. After all, we're all clamouring for them, aren't we ABC?

[chookmustard]

I was going to create a thread called 'ABC disappoints' .

But saw this excellent Angra thread first.

I listen to the ABC radio pretty much all day. Either 702 Sydney or Radio National or News Radio.
Listening to Linda Motram and Sabra Lane this morning was very disappointing. I think Lane is one of the higher up political journos in the press gallery for the ABC. So it's sad that both ladies focused on today's Nielsen polling about the poor state of the ALP and making a big deal out of it. ICAC, Rudd taking his head out of his butt long enough to stick it in front of a camera and cabinet reshuffles are not really central to how Austalia is run. Poll based political journalism and commentary is the say way out. Possibly a little lazy. Motram had Bill Shorten on and 'just had to ask him' about the poll results as if any senior politician was going to say anything controversial or even interesting about a shit poll result.

It's such an obvious move

[chookmustard]

More to this.

The radio program 'The World Today' yesterday had Alexander Downer on to give perspective and flesh to the Prisoner X issue in Isreal. As a former FM I guess he could do such a thing. It was a total waste of radio time. Basically Downer opined that the prisoner ' must have done something bad' to end up in goal.

Gee, ya think!?

Total tosh. ABC would have done better to get an security expert rather than Downers vague recollections of telling Isreali officials to please stop using Aussie passports in Mossad ops (which they 'noted',whatever that means)

The only bit of any value was Downer basically sticking up for Bob Carr ,and his office, and how information about the case wasn't clearly apparent to the FM initially.

I give the segment 4 out of 10

[chookmustard]

And another thing,

The World Today program went out if it's way to find a racist brogan at Rooty Hill to bag boat people and immigrants when Gillards went out West the other week.

I really just assuming that though. But it did seem strange

[angra]

A great faux pas from the ABC today.

"The world's biggest mining company reports another record rise in iron ore output and at many of its Australian coal mines."

No ABC, iron ore comes from iron ore mines, not coal mines.

[jreidy]

Although a rise is iron ore output from coal mines is indeed newsworthy.
These sort of editing problems are happening more and more, in the press it is due to the loss of subeditors, Fairfax didn't think this was there core business and so outsourced it to Pagemasters.
On the net there is equally good writing in old media and 'new' media, what makes old media different is the editing and review.

This thread is a good idea, something else the ABC does - which has been Commented before is take their editorial from the Australian, I'll post examples here.

[angra]

Woops ABC -

Their text message under the Christine Milne press conference in Melbourne this morning -

Milne says "I think the problem was that guns had too much power in Tasmania."

Oh dear.

[chookmustard]

Don't you mean 'that guns had too much power...oh deer'?

[angra]

A ferry sadly sunk in the Philippines. It was called the Thomas Aquinas.

Apparently this is too much for ABC employees to master. It was repeatedly referred to as the "Thomas Akweeness" rather than the correct "Thomas Akwainess."

Who are they employing these days? Dickheads on work experience?

[Matthew Of Canberra]

As far as I know it's pronounce ak-WHY-nas

Is there a local pinoy variation that I'm not aware of? It occurs to me that Aquino might be derivation.

[angra]

You are right. But not Philippines, Italy, although I suppose you get from one to the other by means of Saints.

Bloody Catholics are everywhere!

The ancient Aquinum was a municipium in the time of Cicero, and made a colony by the Triumviri. It was crossed by the Via Latina.

Aquinum is thought to be the birthplace of the poet Juvenal, and was that of the emperor Pescennius Niger.

The earliest recorded Catholic Bishop of Aquino was Bishop Giovino in 593AD.

Aquino's patron saint is Saint Constantius of Aquino (San Costanzo).

Saint Thomas Aquinas (otherwise Thomas of Aquino) was born in 1225 in the castle of Roccasecca, 8 kilometres northwards.

[jreidy]

My contribution - trivia (much of ABC news reporting) comes from the Roman tri via (3 roads for any ABC journos reading this)- referring to notice boards placed at road junctions.

[angra]

Peter Reith is being interviewed on ABC ad nauseaum , and this morning he's talking about the expenses rorts.

Well he should know.

This from the man that racked up K50 worth of private phone bills whilst a minister.

God have mercy!

[jreidy]

Re the expense rorts, if expenses can only be claimed while on official business, then what possessed Abbott to say one reason why he went to Port Macquarie was because 'it was in a marginal electorate'.
That implies it was about campaigning - politics and not policy.
I would understand if he claimed expenses for travel to a safe Labor or Liberal seat that would not change hands but not a marginal seat.
Remember in 2007 at the change of government, and Abbott was no longer a minister, he took a pay cut of several hundred thousand dollars..