In wide-ranging speech, Kim Williams says digital age has led to ‘fragmentation’ at the ABC and warns against ‘insidious and dangerous’ ideas of censorship
In his first major speech since taking on the role, the ABC chair, Kim Williams, says the ABC’s news service must remain the most trusted in the nation.In his first major speech since taking on the role, the ABC chair, Kim Williams, says the ABC’s news service must remain the most trusted in the nation.
“In this landscape littered with lost hopes and compromised trust, one organisation stands firmly: the ABC,” Williams said in an address to the State Library of Victoria on Wednesday night. “The most trusted media organisation in our nation.”, outlined the challenges faced by the media and democracy in the face of digital technology which had transferred power from traditional authorities to citizens.
He pointed to threats to the broadcaster, both from authoritarian countries such as Russia, and from the way the internet, social media and artificial intelligence are altering public debates.A former chief executive of News Corp Australia, Foxtel, Fox Studios Australia and the Australian Film Commission, among other cultural institutions, Williams has a long history in media and the arts.
“It has altered the personality, chemistry and character of our national debates in sometimes, indeed often, negative ways. It is time for refreshed purpose.”
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