Daniel

Yet another example of why so many people have lost faith in legacy media and its rapidly disappearing journalism standards. In the last couple of days I've reported on a NYT editor admitting the paper's own news section wouldn't have run Nicholas Kristof's inflammatory, unsourced column on rape allegations against Israel. I've reported on the Washington Post altering direct quotations to recast what Trump actually said as anti-Israel. And now this. Three hours. That's how long that ABC (Australia) knew a claim was false before it put it on air anyway. In May 2025, UN Under-Secretary-General Tom Fletcher told BBC Radio 4's "Today" programme, on air, in his own words: "There are 14,000 babies that will die in the next 48 hours unless we can reach them." That was false. The actual UN data behind it was an IPC report projecting the possibility of 14,100 severe malnutrition cases over an 11-month period, not a 48-hour death toll. Even the longer prediction model turned out to be wrong. Fletcher later said he "really regretted" the claim and denied it was deliberate. The BBC and ABC both ran with it. ABC aired it on News Breakfast at 6am on May 21. Under questioning at the Bondi royal commission this week, editorial director Gavin Fang admitted it had already been publicly known for three hours before the show even started that the figure was wrong. The correction didn't air for ten hours until 4pm, on a different program. A general written correction wasn't posted for a week. ABC's own ombudsman, Fiona Cameron, later found it breached the broadcaster's accuracy standards — and told the commission plainly, "at times the ABC is slow to correct and clarify." This wasn't a wire-copy typo on page six. It landed at the most inflammatory point of an already inflamed war, on one of the country's most trusted public broadcasters. Antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal told the commission that ABC is "marking their own homework," pointing out its ombudsman is appointed by and answers to the same board she's supposed to be checking. Segal insisted on an independent regulator, but ABC refused. Here's what makes the three-hour gap harder to wave away: just months before this aired, the director of ASIO (Australian Security Intelligence Organisation — its domestic spy agency, roughly the equivalent of the FBI's counterintelligence/counterterrorism division) told an Australian Senate committee that antisemitism had become the agency's number one domestic threat priority for the first time in history — and he specifically warned Australians to avoid "inflamed language" around the Middle East. ABC had that warning. It had three hours' notice the number was wrong. It aired it anyway. I am not claiming a direct causation from the ABC broadcast to the murders at a Bondi Beach Hanukkah gathering seven months later. But when your own national security agency is telling you the country is primed to combust over exactly this kind of claim, three hours of advance warning that the claim is false stops being a footnote. It becomes the whole story. Against that backdrop, it's not a coincidence worth ignoring that violent antisemitic incidents hit a record over the last year in Australia. An admission dragged out under subpoena, a year later, isn't accountability. It's what accountability looks like when you've run out of ways to avoid it. And it is another prime example of why so many people are disgusted with the mainstream press.

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Careful chaps, it seems they have cottoned on to the fact that we don’t give a monkeys if they call us racist pricks anymore. So they have deployed their new super weapon. Calling us racist pricks IN CAPITAL LETTERS. Sorry retard, your race card is still declined. 😘