We’re worried the language we’re using in our coverage is askew, favoring the Israeli narrative over objective reporting. This is evident in our reluctance to use words such as ‘War crimes’, ‘Genocide”, ‘Ethnic cleansing’, ‘Apartheid’ and ‘Occupation’ to describe the various aspects of the Israeli practices in Gaza and the West Bank, even when the words are attributed to respectable organisations and sources
More than a little gross if you ask me that they're happy to use strong emotive language in reference to the actions of Hamas, but refuse to do the same when it's war crimes done by an apartheid state with strong US and Australian backing.
“If you don’t want to reflect a view that aspires to impartiality, don’t work at the ABC,” [ABC Chair Kim] Williams told the Fourth Estate podcast.
That's all very well to say, Ms Williams, it when the ABC is clearly not living up to its own ideals, it, and all the other lame quotes by ABC spokespeople in the article, fall incredibly flat.
We expect better of our national broadcaster.