Published: October 04, 2018
Jonathan Shier, whose ABC reign was even more tumultuous than Michelle Guthrie’s, is back. Plus: so are Sky’s broadcasters of offensive content
When the ABC lost its managing director and chairman within three days last week the one person we didn’t need to hear from was Jonathan Shier, an ABC MD who was sacked less than two years into his tumultuous reign in 2001. But the Australian looked him up and published an earnest think piece headed “How to rebuild trust in our troubled public broadcaster” without a hint of irony.
“It would certainly appear the last chairman failed Public Broadcasting 101 in instructing a managing director to sack journalists in order to appeal to or appease the government of the day,” Shier wrote.
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