The ABC’s PR department earns several mentions in a recent judgment, as part of a bid to illustrate the organisation’s institutional defensiveness.
A recent Federal Court ruling in the defamation case brought by former special forces commander Heston Russell against the ABC must make for gruelling reading at Ultimo. Not least in the comms department.It does this primarily by issuing many press releases about the deficiencies of their critics. You haven’t made it as a media writer if Aunty’s enforcers haven’t at one stage or another slapped down your reporting.
It’s all fun and games to fire off at gadfly columnists. Doing so at judges, even if only by implication, is an altogether dicier proposition.It was about the organisation’s then decision to not defend the case to protect the identity of a confidential source, whose identity the judgment argues the ABC’s own editorial choices effectively revealed.
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