Even Aunty’s strongest supporters would admit it has been annus horribilis for the organisation. The ABC’s managing director David Anderson tells a different story.
But that wasn’t the view of Masters and Tiffen. They had said the program failed to achieve an editorial standard in a draft version of the report, but were then told they could not make that conclusion as it wasn’t in its terms of reference. It was then deleted. The review divided people inside the ABC with a second draft of the report prompting a nearly 60-page response from the public broadcaster, according to people familiar with the matter who requested anonymity.
“The Ghost train saga said to me that there was a formal endorsement of what I would consider lessened standards.”Anderson, however, stands by the journalism. “Could the program have been better? Yeah, it could have been for this one element that was called out by the reviewers,” he says. “But otherwise, I’m standing by the program - the program is still available, and we can learn what the reviewers came back to us with.
“But there’s more to do. It needs to be clear that the taxpayer will not pay for transgressions. Consequences of failure to comply must fall on the ABC employee, not the taxpayer,” he says. In August, Anderson emailed staff, warning them were legally accountable for their personal social media accounts, but could still face disciplinary conduct under the ABC Code of Conduct for their posts.Media Watch
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