Published: November 09, 2018
ABC editorial review finds MPs ‘exploiting live media conferences’. Plus: Paul Whittaker makes his mark at Sky
Inside the ABC there has traditionally been some resentment towards its 24-hour news channel, which was funded not by government but by making internal savings back in 2010. Current affairs journalists believed the money was being siphoned away from established programs to create a live news channel that would not offer as much scrutiny of the powerful as a Four Corners or a 7.30.
Now an internal review has found that much of the streaming of live press conferences by politicians is little more than a platform for “campaign stump speeches”.
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