ABC and SBS must lose editorial fear: Pike
Ronin Films director Andrew Pike says the Government must ensure that the ABC and SBS can operate without fear of political intervention and repercussions.
“I don’t know how, but it’s very much a Government issue, that the ABC and SBS as national broadcasters need to be independent in their editorial policy,” Pike told Encore.
Pike sent a letter to Encore, explaining that the ABC had withdrawn its offer to acquire Inka Straface’s documentary Hope in a Slingshot – about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – due to its policy of “impartiality” and not being able to find another program that could balance the opinions expressed in the film.
The distributor went public and media interest helped him get an immediate response.
This needs to be addressed now. I recommend going to the ABC Advisory Council (abc.net.au/corp/abcac/) to voice a complaint.
It’s not just the ABC and SBS, this is happening all over the world. The bias of the BBC is disgusting and the British Press Complaints Commission is unable to act because its terms of reference are too restrictive and allow that it is up to broadcasters to decide what they present. The results of this are very evident in the US where the vast majority of the population is extremely ignorant of world affairs and is deeply indoctrinated to a blinkered pro-US, American Interests and “world policeman” based, egocentric bias.
It’s all very well to dumb down the masses, but if the people controling the process of dumbing down are myopic psychopaths then the human race will become a degenerate species.