I love reading reports about investigation into complaints. The ABC lists upheld complaints here. You can even find stats.
While it’s probably adding to the idea that I should get a life, I couldn’t help but note that the percentage of upheld complaints in 2009 was a massive increase over previous years.
2003: 4.8%
2004: 2.8%
2005: 4.7%
2006: 2.5%
2007: 2.6%
2008: 2.9%
2009: 13.5%
It seems like the last quarter was a bit of a bastard for the ABC. I initially thought it was because 20.7% of complaints about violence were upheld… but 73.4% of complaints about anti-opposition bias were upheld. I’m not going to go on a rant about ABC bias because I love the ABC (I look forward to the day that it demonstrates to everybody that commercial news is yet another example of market failure). (more…)
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