ABC news director blasts ‘increasingly toxic media environment where media businesses attack each other’
ABC’s news director has struck out at the “toxic media environment” in Australia, claiming that unfair attacks on ABC journalists are tarnishing the “public perception of all news”.
Justin Stevens made these comments during a Melbourne Press Club address on Tuesday.
Noting that the Australian public increasingly accesses their news from a number of online platforms, he warned “that ecosystem is being overrun by opinion, rumour, misinformation, disinformation, conspiracy theories, propaganda, clickbait and fakery”.
