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Tuesday, September 17, 2013

The ABC gets back to basics

Beneath this picture of a flint-eyed Julie Bishop at the ABC website....


..... there is this headline.....


followed by this story, which is reproduced in its entirety....
"Ms Bishop says she will leave for meetings at the UN in New York on Saturday and will talk to Dr Natalegawa while she is there."
Mark Scott must be coming to appreciate that his bloated empire does indeed need to trim the waste Joe Hockey said several weeks he would be looking to find. Thus do we now see the ABC approach to reporting the news reduced to its bare essentials: a partisan headline, an unflattering picture of a class enemy and a few entirely irrelevant words to justify the lot.

As a further economy measure, a photoshopped Ms Bishop has not been shown enjoying conjugal relations with a dog, despite such imagery being entirely "in line" with the broadcaster's "target audience".

(h/t:  DuncanM at Catallaxy)