{"id":2115,"date":"2013-03-06T11:31:34","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T00:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/australiansforhonestpolitics.wordpress.com\/?p=2115"},"modified":"2019-04-16T13:51:53","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T03:51:53","slug":"mediaactive-interviews-jonaholmesmw-on-faine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/mediaactive-interviews-jonaholmesmw-on-faine\/","title":{"rendered":"@MediaActive interviews @JonaHolmesMW on #Faine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jonathan Holmes – Mediawatch<\/p><\/div>\n

If you have been following the Jon Faine ‘bias’ affair you will know that ABC Television’s Media Watch <\/i>covered the Faine controversy<\/a> on 4 February – almost the only ABC coverage of the finding and resultant strong dissent by Faine and several leading ABC current affairs journalists. (Faine archive<\/a>)<\/p>\n

In that edition, the presenter, Jonathan Holmes, made it clear that, with some caveats, he supported the negative finding against Faine by the ABC\u2019s blandly titled Audience and Consumer Affairs Department.<\/p>\n

Within the tight time constraints of that fourteen minute program, he made his reasons reasonably plain.<\/p>\n

While writing the previous articles on this affair, I was able to communicate with Jonathan Holmes via email and Twitter to explore and clarify his views on the issue itself and the investigative and assessment processes around the finding.<\/p>\n

He agreed to answer some questions via email on the record.<\/p>\n

Holmes\u2019 perspectives and analyses are very useful coming from a journalist of his long experience and, now, as the most established presenter of Media Watch <\/i>on ABC Television. He took up that role in 2008.<\/p>\n

He started in journalism in 1971 at the BBC and went on to Executive Produce the ABC\u2019s Four Corners<\/i>, Foreign Correspondent<\/i> and The 7.30 Report. <\/i>Later he went back in the field as a foreign corespondent for the ABC in Washington and as a reporter for Four Corners<\/i>.<\/p>\n

His report for Foreign Correspondent<\/i> on the Balibo Five won a Logie in 1998 and his earlier film on the Hoddle Street massacre was also an award winner.<\/p>\n

These answers from Jonathan Holmes put more flesh on the bones of his original Media Watch <\/i>script.<\/p>\n

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1. <\/strong>On 27 February, in a tweet reply to one of my tweets you said:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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@mediaactive<\/a> agree ACMA is v legalistic but both applying same woolly ABC Ed pols: not ‘blackletter law’<\/p>\n

— Jonathan Holmes (@jonaholmesMW) February 27, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n