News Corp columnist and star of ABC series Recognition: Yes or No Andrew Bolt isn’t just going to appear on the ABC. He’s also coming to SBS’ National Indigenous Television, at a yet-to-be-determined date.
Simon Nasht, the writer and executive producer of the series that pits Bolt against newbie Senator and indigenous recognition advocate Linda Burney, told Crikey the ABC had agreed to give the program to NITV free of charge. “It’s the first time this has happened between the ABC and NITV,” Nasht said, noting that the indigenous channel would bring a “completely different perspective” to the program, which will air on the ABC on Tuesday.
When Bolt was revealed as one of two stars on the program, many were aghast. In 2011 Bolt was found to have breached the Racial Discrimination Act for two articles he’d written in 2009 that criticised some light-skinned Aboriginal people for “choosing” to identify as Aboriginal. Many argued that his breach of the Racial Discrimination Act should surely proscribe his participation in programs on indigenous issues to air on the ABC. The program caused a stir on the Bonner Committee of the ABC, which measures the broadcaster’s progress on indigenous issues.
Nasht says ignoring Bolt or the fact that his views are widely held does nothing to advance the discussion on indigenous recognition. “If white liberal Australia can’t deal with this, NITV can,” he said. — Myriam Robin
Blot had AA on his SKY prog this week and kept telling him that , constrained by 18C, he was unable to write the truth.
AA lacked either the will or the wit to call bullshit and remind him that he’d been convicted not under 18C but 18D for being tendentiously mendacious.
My personal view is that Blot needs to be ignored comprehensively. Since that won’t happen while the generation before him still has living members, then by all means show this doc as widely as possible so that as many people as possible get to see this amazing spectacle – hopefully just the once.
What is it with Guthrie’s ABC?
This week we’ve had Mitchell on Lameline and The Dum – to promote his book.
Howard on Lameline to promote his “World According to Honest John” Menzies mockumentary – and argue why Turnbull has every right to call this plebiscite “because he took it to the election”? So what about that other Super promise he wore to the same election – he has every right to remould that after the event; or to dump all together ? Like the non-core promises Honest John took us for : the usual “Limited News Party mandate/Right to dump or change policy (taken to an election) is more equal than someone else’s mandate to do much the same thing!”?
Now we’ve got Blot on the Political Landscape?
FFS Michelle, if we were interested in such Limited News Party propaganda we’d subscribe to their bog-roll tabloid press, now smearing your ABC?
Linda Burney is not in the Senate, as mot of the world apart from Myriam knows
It wasn’t that long ago that it was the case that “It’s the ‘masculine bovine excrement’ that the ABC rejects : that makes ABC the best” – nowadaze it seems it can’t wait to dive into that manure pit, in the name of “balance”?