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Breaking news: the ABC is its own worst enemy

The national broadcaster needs to ‘grow a spine’, say Crikey readers, and turn its back on News Corp’s insidious influence.

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Afternoon Update: Bruce Lehrmann settles with News Corp; Greens racism allegations; and a Snapchat before horror Victorian crash

Media company says settlement involves payment of a portion of Lehrmann’s legal costs only

The Guardian - AU

Bruce Lehrmann settles defamation case with News Corp

News Corp and former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann have settled a defamation case over the media firm's coverage of Brittany Higgins' rape allegations.

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Bruce Lehrmann drops defamation case and settles with News Corp over Brittany Higgins reports

The two parties reportedly settled with News Corp saying it had not paid any damages and the articles in dispute would remain online

The Guardian - AU

Journalists couldn’t have told these important stories without freedom of information requests

From the Drumgold letter to the Dutton au pair controversy, here are some of the things you mightn’t have known without FOI.

Crikey

Here's where Waystar Royco would rank on the Fortune 500

The crown jewel of the fictional Roy family would rank in the upper half, well above the real Murdoch family—but below the Redstones.

Fortune

The Australian blames ‘production error’ for attack on Noel Pearson added to reader’s letter

‘Horrified’ reader tracks down Indigenous leader to explain harsh words are not hers. Plus: tabloids smell blood as Michael Rowland takes a break

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Police arrest Sydney man over threats to the ABC’s Stan Grant

The man was charged with using a carriage service ‘to threaten serious harm’ among other offences, a police spokesperson said.

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When the truth is never as simple as Black and white

So many voices raised about the Voice and racism in Australia… yet so little wisdom imparted. Crikey readers try to make sense of it.

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Bribery and corruption

The Morrison government paid a corrupt businessman millions of taxpayer dollars for offshore processing on Nauru, and Clare Nowland, the 95-year-old woman tasered by police, has died only hours after the officer allegedly involved was charged with three offences.

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ABC fears for Indigenous staff as ‘evil’ comments on the rise in lead-up to voice referendum

Managing director David Anderson says broadcaster has measures in place to protect staff, including blocking emails

The Guardian - AU

Stan Grant affair: progressives get a wake-up call, others hit the snooze button

The ABC can’t do much about what Stan Grant’s now copping, in a free society. Some of his champions have their own questions to answer. And progressives’ obsessive focus on it leaves the mainstream unmoved.

Crikey

The ABC doesn’t need News Corp — News Corp needs the ABC

Like a bully in a playground, the Murdoch media in Australia has the national broadcaster cowering against its attacks. It’s time the ABC fought back.

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Hot off the press

News Corp denies it piled on Indigenous journalist Stan Grant and slams ‘unsubstantiated claims’ from ABC news director Justin Stevens, and independent Senator Lidia Thorpe reprimands anti-Voice group Advance for using her quotes in its Facebook campaign.

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The Guardian - AU

News Corp denies it played a part in Stan Grant’s decision to leave Q+A amid racist attacks

Murdoch’s Australian media chief calls on ABC to ‘correct the record’ after accusations that excessive coverage encouraged racist social media trolls

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News Corp is trying to find out who did this to Stan Grant

The reverent treatment Stan Grant’s Q+A sign-off received from News Corp will surprise anyone who’s read anything else it’s produced on the veteran journo in the past fortnight.

The Guardian - AU

Spy boss says terrorism threat lower – as it happened

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Stan Grant: Q+A presenter cites ‘poison’ of the media as he steps away from ABC show

Presenter who has received racist abuse says he needs ‘break from the media’ and says he is ‘part of the problem’ in emotional close to episode

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The Guardian - AU

ABC news chief regrets not defending Stan Grant earlier amid racist attacks

Justin Stevens says he has apologised to presenter and urged media critics to ‘come after me’ rather than target journalists

The Independent UK

Australian Indigenous TV host quits program over racist backlash

Prominent Indigenous journalist Stan Grant will step away from television hosting duties after viewers responded with racist abuse to his comments on historic Aboriginal dispossession

The Guardian - AU

Death of MasterChef judge Jock Zonfrillo sparks frenzy of tabloid intrusion

Relentless speculation and paparazzo at funeral as family and colleagues mourn. Plus: ‘dole bludgers’ hounded after federal budget

ABC News

South Australian government to lead national review into origins of First Nations artwork

The South Australian government will spearhead a national review into the origins of First Nations artwork following allegations non-Indigenous workers have interfered in works by Aboriginal artists.

ABC News

Paul Kent charged with domestic violence, pulled from Fox Sports' NRL 360 program

NRL 360 host Braith Anasta says "Paul Kent is stood down while he deals with personal issues" after domestic violence charges are laid against the prominent News Corp and Fox Sports journalist.

The Independent UK

Pieces that may be from wetsuit, surfboard found after surfer attacked by shark off South Australia

Searchers have found what appear to be pieces of the wetsuit and surfboard belonging to a 46-year-old surfer who was attacked by a shark off South Australia's coast

Crikey

Four years after Disney windfall, is the Murdoch family ready to sell again?

The fall in the Murdoch dynasty’s traditional media doesn’t augur well for the family business, and the sharemarket seems to be losing patience too.

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