{"id":36694,"date":"2021-09-10T11:44:13","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T02:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2021\/sep\/10\/how-the-australian-and-the-ipas-attack-on-the-abc-went-horribly-wrong"},"modified":"2021-09-10T11:44:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T02:44:13","slug":"how-the-australian-and-the-ipas-attack-on-the-abc-went-horribly-wrong-the-weekly-beast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36694","title":{"rendered":"How the Australian and the IPA\u2019s attack on the ABC went horribly wrong | The Weekly Beast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A report into how many times the ABC mentioned News Corp or Murdoch had some embarrassing flaws. Plus: campaign to release Myanmar fixer<\/p>\n<p>The Australian newspaper often gleefully reports the work of the rightwing thinktank the Institute of Public Affairs in an effort to undermine the ABC.<\/p>\n<p>Like the IPA, Rupert Murdoch is in favour of privatising the public broadcaster, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2021\/may\/17\/abc-demands-rightwing-thinktank-correct-misleading-claims-on-public-trust\">chipping away at Aunty<\/a> is daily fodder for his newspapers. But this week the Australian\u2019s media writer and ABC-specialist Sophie Elsworth\u2019s report of the IPA\u2019s latest claims about the public broadcaster went horribly wrong.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2021\/sep\/10\/how-the-australian-and-the-ipas-attack-on-the-abc-went-horribly-wrong\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A report into how many times the ABC mentioned News Corp or Murdoch had some embarrassing flaws. Plus: campaign to release Myanmar fixerThe Australian newspaper often gleefully reports the work of the rightwing thinktank the Institute of Public Affairs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1631,681,236,351,238,1784,82,2170,61,58,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-news","category-australian-broadcasting-corporation","category-australian-media","category-digital-media","category-internet","category-media","category-media-business","category-myanmar","category-news-corporation","category-south-and-central-asia","category-technology","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36695,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36694\/revisions\/36695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}