With his retort to the ABC journalist in Alice Springs, โ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐โ๐ ๐๐๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฎ๐ป ๐๐๐ ๐พ๐๐ฒ๐๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ปโ, Peter Dutton condensed into five words what most people think about the rot and decay central to the ABCโs total lack of journalistic curiosity and their laziness about whatโs going on in their own wheelhouse, right under their own noses.
Apart from the grotesque and obscene trivialisation with the phrase โ๐๐ผ ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐น๐น๐ฒ๐ฑ rampant child abuseโ, the journalist didn’t bother to direct the question to NT Senator, high profile Alice Springs local and aboriginal, Jacinta Price, standing next to Dutton for fear of receiving a curt and inconvenient answer. But Price was having not of it and pitched in with her own anecdotes and personal knowledge which supported Dutton’s evidence derived from talks with local police and social workers.
The question of โ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐ฑ๐ผ ๐๐ผ๐ ๐ต๐ฎ๐๐ฒโ when the evidence has been widely disseminated and well known for decades, is meant elicit a stumbling response and to sow seeds of doubt in the minds of the ABC’s viewing and listening audience who get their news filtered through the lens of the ABC.
It’s journalistic activism and pushing a narrative
“What evidence do you have” is a variation on the same, unequivocal, journalistic declaration, โ๐๐ถ๐๐ต๐ผ๐๐ ๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒโ that weโve seen coming from the left media in the US in recent times and is a gotcha tactic designed to wrong foot their interlocutor, slam the lid on the exchange and score a win and high fives all round, for the crusading, ABC activist journalist back at the editing suite.”