The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has issued its first correction of 2025, admitting to exaggerating Victoria's fire danger ratings in late December. The ABC's website published a correction stating that several news bulletins incorrectly reported extreme fire danger when, in fact, the ratings were high with some areas rated moderate. The correction follows 61 corrections issued by the ABC in 2024.
The ABC has published its first correction of 2025 after the public broadcaster exaggerated Victoria ’s fire danger ratings in December.The ABC has published its first self-correction of 2025 after the national broadcaster exaggerated Victoria ’s fire danger ratings in late December.
“On 27 December 2024 a number of news bulletins from 5.30am-11am incorrectly reported that Victoria's fire danger ratings were extreme when in fact they were rated high with Northern Central being moderate,” the correction read. Another correction involved a story about former home affairs boss Michael Pezzullo on Sky News Australia in which the ABC’s Media Watch program misattributed MSN auto-generated captions to this publication.
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