Published: March 09, 2019
The national broadcaster must stick to the ideal of objectivity, Jonathan Holmes says in this extract from On Aunty
If you work for the ABC, you don’t have a choice: you must follow the recognised standards of objective journalism and sublimate your own opinion, at least do your best to do so.
You can certainly provide analysis, based on demonstrable evidence, using unemotional language. But you cannot be an advocate. And I would argue (though no doubt the ABC’s critics would disagree) that in its news bulletins, and to a great extent in its current affairs programs, on television, radio and online text, the ABC manages that pretty well.
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