Four Corners report on 5G breaches ABC’s Code of Practice
The Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) appears to have sunk to a new low in journalistic standards in its recent report on 5G.
The 45-minute ABC Four Corners episode, titled “˜The Truth about 5G”™, which was aired on 3 August 2020, claimed to be investigating “˜the rise of the anti-5G movement and the spread of wild conspiracy theories tying the COVID-19 pandemic to the 5G rollout”™.
Oddly, despite the purported object of its investigation, the Four Corners report didn”™t reveal a single Australian anti-5G activist blaming the COVID-19 pandemic on 5G.  SSMA asks if the focus on “˜wild conspiracy theories”™ is another media beat-up big on sensationalism “” and short on facts? …SNIP
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