Call for ABC to ‘explain and apologise’ over ‘fake news’ reporting

Sky News host Chris Kenny questions when the ABC will “correct and explain” its own inconsistencies with news reporting.

“Kim Williams spoke at great length about fake news, quoting George Orwell and lamenting how it is so difficult in the digital age to find trusted, objective, factual information,” Mr Kenny said.

“If you want to counter it and you run a major broadcasting behemoth replete with government funding and statutory obligations, well, you have got a chance to do something about it, I mean when will the ABC correct and explain and apologise for its own fake news in trying to set up Heston Russell as a war criminal?”

[robertcoyte]

Spend over a Billion each year elsewhere #defundtheABC

[stenkarasin]

The ABC appologise, they would rather die.

[adriankelly]

Hopefully the ABC will be defunded with the Liberal Government coming into power.

[peterjohnstone]

Agree 100 percent, I stopped watching ABC.

[daniellebcooper]

It would be comical if it wasnt so serious.

[DavidCarrol-iq]

The ABC iplayer must be full of fiction.

[martinepstein]

Unbiased news from all TV companies please

[justinwilson]

How come I can cancel a streaming service when I don't use it, but I'm still required to pay the cvnts at the ABC when I never watch them? Defund the ABC - defund NOW!

[LegendaryInfortainment]

Was he saying fake news is cheaper to produce, and easier? I didn’t think he made any other point at all.

[josephchudleigh]

I have not watched the ABC since that hatchet job on Four Corners about Donald Trump . The woman who made it still works there .

[Ajax-tq]

0) You can not take abc chair information at face value.

[monsel]

Explain and apologise 😂😂😂. They should be held accountable. What happened to that idea ? Everyone else would be held accountable, perhaps even imprisoned. They still have their jobs, and their funding. Why ???

[VKAB-]

Simple question for the ABC, as a Government funded broadcaster - why do you switch comments off? If you can't have dialogue you shouldn't be funded.

[BarbaraHambleton]

Oh!! He’s describing his own Medusa outlet

[eedsYT]

Maybe the ABC could focus on the truth more

[GLB-fs]

When your stock-in-trade is not telling the truth, it is entirely natural to lie about whether you are telling the truth.

[alansivkoff]

Cognitive dissonance by Williams and everyone else at the ABC

[leonardbunce]

Unfortunately there is no serious Accountability in terms of EXTREME AND SEVERE PENALTIES Such as revocation of licence and almost bankrupting fines and blackllisting of perpertrating Journalists and editors

[ThePastaManCan]

Thought this guy was reporting on himself.

[TheRidingDutchman]

Compulsory Lean Six Sigma programmes for Government, its bodies and any tax payer funded 'service'. These bureaucrats have grown out of control....