Claims that Four Corners was ‘embedded’ with Zali Steggall’s campaign did not stand up to scrutiny. Plus: Star Observer in crisis
On Monday night the ABC screens a must-watch post election program, The Battle for Warringah, a Four Corners investigation into the high-profile race in the former blue-ribbon Liberal seat. Reporter Sean Nicholls and crew began filming on Sydney’s northern beaches at the end of March, documenting the struggle between incumbent Tony Abbott and independent Zali Steggall. They have filmed behind the scenes with both candidates, but the former prime minister has so far refused a sit-down interview.
On Wednesday Nicholls was surprised to read in the Australian that Four Corners was “embedded” with the Steggall team. The claim came from the former ABC chairmain Maurice Newman, who has a weekly column in which he variously bashes the ABC for being a “campaigner for radical environmentalism and globalism” and spruiks his peculiar brand of climate denialism.
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