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ABC Board to consider moving Q&A to News

The ABC board will meet tomorrow and discuss moving Q & A from its Entertainment portfolio.

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The ABC board will meet tomorrow and discuss moving Q & A from its Entertainment portfolio to News & Current Affairs.

The shift would serve to appease the government which has banned front-benchers from appearing on the show, following the appearance of Zaky Mallah in the studio audience. That brought claims of supposed bias to a head and three weeks of national headlines.

ABC has since conceded errors of judgement and apologised, whilst appointing Shaun Brown and Ray Martin to oversee an independent review.

If it moves to the News division, Q & A will be subjected to stronger standards of balance and fairness than it currently enjoys as an Entertainment programme.

A spokesman for the ABC yesterday declined to comment on this week’s board meeting.

Source: The Australian

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4 Responses

  1. Do personal views, unscripted open discussion and entertaining personalities constitute news? News is newly received information of recent note, reported in a factual way. Q&A is more entertainment than news whereas Four Corners is more news than entertainment.

  2. I like the show without the politicians and their constant argy-bargy with the other side/s. Keep it as entertainment and let’s have more of the same. Banish the govt. top-benchers to the other shows on the ABC and all the other channels, where they can strut their stuff as per usual.

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