If lying their @rses off to people to present a factually incorrect story doesn't say it all about the socialist media wing formally call the ABC, then nothing will.



AN astonishing letter from the ABC proves it knowingly left out critical information when suggesting the Northern Territory government tortured children in detention.

The letter, from Four Corners reporter Caro Meldrum-Hanna, shows the ABC misled a key interviewee about what it planned to report and praised prison reforms it then didn’t mention on air.

The letter also confirms Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was a fool to let the Four Corners report panic him into calling a royal commission only 10 hours later.

Here is clear evidence that the ABC is out of control, demonstrating a bias that — with Turnbull’s naive help — will now destroy the NT Country Liberal Party government.

Three weeks ago Four Corners screened a highly emotional report claiming juveniles in detention in the NT were being abused.

This report, a month before the NT elections, opened with a shot of a young man being shackled by guards to a chair and with what seemed a bag over his head.

Host Sarah Ferguson then made clear that this was torture of the kind infamously demonstrated at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib jail: “The image you have just seen isn’t from Guantánamo Bay or Abu Ghraib but Australia in 2015 …

“This is juvenile justice in the Northern Territory, a system that punishes troubled children instead of rehabilitating them.”

I’ve written before that much of what you were told was false or outrageously one-sided.

The ABC failed to tell viewers that the young man being strapped down, Dylan Voller, was not being tortured but restrained after threatening to hurt himself.

The ABC failed to tell viewers the hood was actually a mesh to stop him spitting on guards, as he’d done hundreds of times.

And the ABC failed to give a true picture of Voller’s background. It glossed over the threat he posed, claiming: “Voller has been in and out of juvenile detention since he was 11 years old for car theft, robberies and, more recently, assault.”

False. The ABC failed to tell viewers that Voller’s first convictions for assault actually dated back seven years and that of his more than 50 convictions, 23 were for assault or other attempts to hurt people, often police and warders.

There was much more the ABC also did not tell. It had shown another confronting scene of Voller being wrestled to a mattress by guards, but did not tell viewers that one guard had been charged with using undue force and been twice cleared, once the courts was told the context.

Nor did the ABC tell viewers that this incident — presented as an attack, of a kind still continuing — actually occurred six years ago, under a Labor government.

Crucially, as former Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett detailed yesterday, the ABC also did not tell viewers that the current CLP Government had recently spent more than $20 million on reforming juvenile detention and had appointed a new Corrections Commissioner to oversee the changes.

Instead, Four Corners presented the CLP Government as torturers and its Attorney-General and then Corrections Minister, John Elferink, as a Harley-riding cowboy blind to the abuse under his nose.


http://www.ntnews.com.au/news/opinion/abc-misled-its-viewers/news-story/0f826958...

greggerypeccary wrote on Aug 21^st, 2016 at 10:28am:



Good thing it wasn't according to the courts; which you seem to rely heavily on to for all your opinions.


You should at least read the OP before making your first cretinous statement of the day.

greggerypeccary wrote on Aug 21^st, 2016 at 10:39am:


Sure is cause for concern

The stench of Apologists permeates the air today

Its time wrote on Aug 21^st, 2016 at 10:42am:



Jeez who would have though a lefty would support the lies of THEIR ABC.

No need to apologised for their mendacious behaviour we always know where you and pecca head stand when it comes to cover up by the socialist media arm.

greggerypeccary wrote on Aug 21^st, 2016 at 10:47am:



Liars, Liars everywhere, remember it is YOUR ABC.



There was much more the ABC also did not tell. It had shown another confronting scene of Voller being wrestled to a mattress by guards, but did not tell viewers that one guard had been charged with using undue force and been twice cleared, once the courts was told the context.

Nor did the ABC tell viewers that this incident — presented as an attack, of a kind still continuing — actually occurred six years ago, under a Labor government.

greggerypeccary wrote on Aug 21^st, 2016 at 11:10am:



What would make someone to make accusations of child abuse that did not happen?

It's YOUR ABC



There was much more the ABC also did not tell. It had shown another confronting scene of Voller being wrestled to a mattress by guards, but did not tell viewers that one guard had been charged with using undue force and been twice cleared, once the courts was told the context.

Nor did the ABC tell viewers that this incident — presented as an attack, of a kind still continuing — actually occurred six years ago, under a Labor government.

BigOl64 wrote on Aug 21^st, 2016 at 11:02am:


is this Bigol64's job application for the Gulag?

Unforgiven wrote on Aug 21^st, 2016 at 11:21am:



Words hurt ya know, there is no need for such a stinging rebuke.

                                                                                             

The_Barnacle wrote on Aug 21^st, 2016 at 11:38am:




I blame the poor socialist state school education for your post that contribute to your total lack of understanding of what constitutes a lie.


Lying by omission
Also known as a continuing misrepresentation, a lie by omission occurs when an important fact is left out in order to foster a misconception. Lying by omission includes failures to correct pre-existing misconceptions. For example, when the seller of a car declares it has been serviced regularly but does not tell that a fault was reported at the last service, the seller lies by omission. It can be compared to dissimulation.

An omission is when a person tells most of the truth, but leaves out a few key facts that therefore completely change the story



You know that google can fix most of those massive gaps in your education



.

Well perhaps you should change the title to read Lies of omission, damn lies of omission & our ABC.

Not that there was any lies of omission in the ABC report either. After all, we all know the children did some bad things, otherwise they wouldn't  be in detention. But this doesn't give the right for them to be abused.

greggerypeccary wrote on Aug 21^st, 2016 at 12:01pm:



I don't think you know the meaning of quite a few polysyllabic words; omission and ironic being but two of them


www.dictionary.com.au/formorons

greggerypeccary wrote on Aug 21^st, 2016 at 11:10am:


Perhaps bighole was the guard on the end of the pepper spray canister ???? 

greggerypeccary wrote on Aug 21^st, 2016 at 10:28am:



"child abuse"



Because their fathers are absent, pissed out of their minds. Because personal responsibility is incomprehensible to them, fathers AND sons.

You are a punk, you are treated like a punk. Be glad you are not a punk in Egypt or Turkey.


These Aboriginal kids need limits that are enforced in their families, clans, tribes. No limits are set, no limits are enforced - so they are in jail. Limits are set. OOOhhh!!! Child abuse!!!!  Black child who is out of control and accepts no adult authority is restrained and kept within limits!!!



Very well - spear them, then.  They must recognise some authority.

  In my view         
All child abusers should be immolated!

Forget about the ABC's grandstanding story making out they have exposed institutionalized child abuse in govt detention centres .....  it's BS.

these youths are there for a reason, they are out of control and have been dealt with in a manner
that would be used with anyone carrying on as they do, fighting, kicking, biting, abusing, spitting etc.

Restraint chairs & spit hoods are there for the prison officers & the inmates safety.

You monotonous drones calling it child abuse & racial discrimination ought just remember not all the inmates portrayed were/are indigenous.

How would you suggest that out of control youths be restrained/treated?

John Smith wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2016 at 8:41am:



They are cretins who are too afraid to tell the soft c0ck lefties to go fkk themselves.


YOUR ABC are still lying scumbags regardless of the stupidity of turnbull and giles.

Gnads wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2016 at 9:13am:


picking a 12 yr old kid up by the neck and tossing him across the room is abuse, locking them up in a cell no bigger than my WC for weeks on end, with no fresh air and no running water, in the territories heat, is abuse. Hitting them is abuse. If you can't do your job of guarding the big bad kids without abusing them, take up knitting as a career.

Its time wrote on Aug 21^st, 2016 at 6:24pm:



Perhaps the little fairies that make your imagination so magical are early onset dementia.

Perhaps.


Fkk if I was as emotionally crippled as you soft c0cks I would cry and then kill myself. 

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2016 at 10:49am:



Id prefer if we all stopped paying for it too. Not like too many people are going to miss out and those who do are lefty soft c0ck, and who gives a sh1t what they want.

BigOl64 wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2016 at 10:55am:


True, Whilst we're at it, since the budget for broadcasting is only 1.6 billion dollars and we're in this phase of not paying for things we don't like or arent likely to use or well people can pay to see/use that, what about the 10.6 billion non-government schools get?


Or I'm not likely to have kids, so the 37.6 billion in assistance to families with children?
Or the 27.2 billion in defence

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2016 at 11:11am:



Gonna do that job yourself are you? 

The ABC have an agenda that is totally against the national interest.
If they tried their BS in one of the successful countries to our north...china, south korea, singapore etc, they would all be interned as the 5th columnists they are.
It is hypocritical in the extreme to receive your wage from the good will of the people of "real" australia and then to, at every opportunity, take a dump on the heads of those people.

Canberra is full of weeds and the ABC is the media unit promoting the dissemination of weed spores throughout our great country.  spray the ABC with round-up, plough the ground, burn it, seed it with salt and declare a 100 year toxic no go zone where the ABC headquarters once stood.

aquascoot wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2016 at 12:41pm:



you don't decide what is national interest horse man

aquascoot wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2016 at 12:41pm:




Want to know how I know this post is BS, it used the term "real" Australia as though its a definable concept.

aquascoot wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2016 at 12:51pm:



Thats just crap, we don't improve as a society if we don't learn about our failings.

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2016 at 1:00pm:



horseboy wants the media to tell him what a good boy he is ...

he prefers the sort of crap the communist media used to put out, proclaiming to their populace how wonderful everything was and how lucky they were, whilst everything was collapsing around them. Horseboy would approve of the sort of media like the Iraqi media that was telling the citizens of Baghdad that the Iraqi army was holding the Americans at bay on the border, while the US tanks were rolling into Baghdad 

aquascoot wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2016 at 1:20pm:




Thats because horseboy is an idiot.

mothra wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2016 at 1:24pm:


Gardening Australia. Costa's a top bloke and lives in a nice part of the world.

Gordon wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2016 at 3:07pm:



Costa is woggy enough to move to SBS and we can still shut down that little cesspit of socialism. 

BigOl64 wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2016 at 3:54pm:


Gardening Australia
Landline
Rage (when I was younger)

BigOl64 wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2016 at 3:54pm:



You mean all of our unsold gunships.

aquascoot wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2016 at 1:20pm:

horseboy needs others to make him feel good ... not very alpha of you horseboy, an alpha doesn't need cheerleaders

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2016 at 4:23pm:



All of them sitting on the tarmac where I left them the night before.


The ABC is not adverse to gilding the Lilly in the name of a good beat up.


The problem is, is the people incorrectly believe that the ABC's core socialist ideology somehow equates to honesty. But they are for from honest.

Its time wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2016 at 5:11pm:


What would be wrong with that? The whole world can't be union officials you know. Someone has to actually do some work. Typical lefty elite snobbery.