Journalist and presenter Antoinette Lattouf was sacked by the ABC when she was taken off air part way through a radio presenting stint, the Fair Work Commission has found.

The ABC are taking some poorly thought and knee-jerk decisions lately. They instead should take a State-like approach to their decision making.

I mean, management need to treat their tenure as a small period in an organisation that continues forever. A perspective change, hopefully leading to better deliberative decisions.

No need to rush when you have eternity to play with.

    • Gorgritch_Umie_Killa@aussie.zoneOP
      4·
      5 months ago

      Yeah, this is important. In such a small traditional media environment they probably feel like they don’t have much choice. They should look for talent in new and independent media if they don’t already, theres still plenty of people out there, they just have tiny loudspeakers.

  • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
    7·
    5 months ago

    They instead should take a State-like approach

    They did take a State-like approach.

    The Australian Government supports Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people. The ABC supports Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people. State-like.

    • Gorgritch_Umie_Killa@aussie.zoneOP
      1·
      5 months ago

      Haha, different interpretations of State i guess.

      I’d interpret your example as policies of the Government of the day, which represents the State, (like the managers represent the ABC), for a short tenure of the life of the respective entities.

      My interpretation in line with what might come to mind when you talk about a Statesman. Good current examples would be John Kerry, Angela Merkel, or closer to home, Julie Bishop. These people have their political aims, but they also realise the continuation of the State as a living entity has a use in its dependency and therefore importance. Noticeably, they’re more internationally focused where its enormously important to take a wider breadth of view in regards your own State and its continuing existence.

  • makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml
    18·
    5 months ago

    I honestly didn’t read it, but, can people not be sacked anymore?

    I’ve been sacked when I was young, and I damn well deserved it. It was a wakeup call. Never made that mistake again.

    • Gorgritch_Umie_Killa@aussie.zoneOP
      5·
      5 months ago

      Tl:dr

      1. An xmas hols fill in, made some unrelated post referencing the atrocities happening against palestinians.

      2.Whatsapp (i think) group in Aus decided to launch a targetted campaign to remove lettouf from broadcasting.

      1. Other people from the same group took screenshots and went public

      2. ABC management screwed up, and probably deserve all the punishment they get for having such a wrong headed and knee-jerk response.