A report into how many times the ABC mentioned News Corp or Murdoch had some embarrassing flaws. Plus: campaign to release Myanmar fixer
The Australian newspaper often gleefully reports the work of the rightwing thinktank the Institute of Public Affairs in an effort to undermine the ABC.
Like the IPA, Rupert Murdoch is in favour of privatising the public broadcaster, and chipping away at Aunty is daily fodder for his newspapers. But this week the Australian’s media writer and ABC-specialist Sophie Elsworth’s report of the IPA’s latest claims about the public broadcaster went horribly wrong.
