
ABC chairman Justin Milne told former managing director Michelle Guthrie to sack high-profile presenter Emma Alberici following a complaint from then-prime minister Malcolm Turnbull..."Bolt
" He wants Alberici gone to placate the Government led by his mate, and suggests that the possible return of the Turnbull Government makes that sacking more necessary. That also implies that Milne would not find it necessary to sack Alberici under a Labor Government.
This kind of political calculation is disgraceful. Shame on the board for not quashing it immediately.
Milne must go."Bolt
The story, however, is that it goes to show the chaos caused when an Independent Statuary body is interfered with economically, politically and culturally as the ABC has been by outside forces that are themselves so divided namely the LNP. Michelle Gutherie it seems is a meat in the sandwich of a communication breakdown. The ABC is not as Independent as one might think given the staff had to read about Gutherie's sacking in the Australian yesterday. How is it Milne, Morrison and even the Australian knew about the internal machinations of our Independent Statutory protected body before the ABC staff did? It seems the staff at the ABC had every reason to be angry with their MD's lack of communication and every right to cheer when they were told by Murdoch's Australian she was gone.
No Government has manipulated the ABC more than the current Abbott/Turnbull/ Morisson government and in particular, the lies told when Abbott cut the financing by $200 mill to be followed by Turnbull's cuts when promised pre their election there'd be "no cuts to the ABC". The very nature of the political, economic and cultural interference by the government and it's political supporters suffered by the ABC and the illegality of it all is clearly visible now and in relief to us all.
The News Corp, Fairfax and IPA myth of staff bias compared to the bias of all these agencies to prevent the ABC from doing their job is what's so obvious. Any doubts that the ABC was being manipulated by staff from the ground up has evaporated. The ABC has been neutered and News Corp has helped in blurring that. Bolt's call for the head of John Milne is a deflection a cover-up of the use he actually was to the LNP.
Senior ABC reporter Emma Alberici says reports chairman Justin Milne told former managing director Michelle Guthrie to sack her after criticism from the Government are "disappointing if true".Alberici
Alberici says claims ABC chairman wanted her sacked are 'distressing, disappointing'
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