From the AFR:
After urging the ABC to apologise for unsubstantiated claims of asylum-seeker abuse by the Australian Navy, Mr Turnbull would not be drawn on whether he shared the Prime Minister’s critical views of the public broadcaster.
…“I think overall the ABC does a pretty good job of being balanced and accurate and it is very well regarded by the Australian public but it doesn’t always do a good job. The thing that the ABC has to be very alert to is that it has a statutory obligation to be balanced, fair, accurate, objective, impartial.
“Journalists come under heat all the time, as you know. So journalists have got to… if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. It is a tough business and you’ve got to be prepared to stand up to criticism and ferocious criticism if you are a journalist.”
For God’s sake, put him in charge.
