From the SMH, you’re with or against us, according to our black and white PM:
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has berated ABC News, arguing that it is taking ”everyone’s side but Australia’s” and that journalists should give the Navy the ”benefit of the doubt” when it comes to claims of wrongdoing.
…”You would like the national broadcaster to have a rigorous commitment to truth and at least some basic affection for the home team,” he told Macquarie Radio on Wednesday.
Mr Abbott also said that it ”dismays Australians when the national broadcaster appears to take everybody’s side but our own”, adding, ”I think that is a problem”.
…”If there’s credible evidence, the ABC, like all other news organisations is entitled to report it, but . . . You shouldn’t leap to be critical of your own country,” he said.
”You certainly ought to be prepared to give the Australian Navy and its hard-working personnel the benefit of the doubt.”
If you want a second propaganda arm, Tony, turn it into the Ministry of Information and see how you go at the polls.
