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Word power(lessness): fatuous sentence of the year award

It is hard to imagine how anybody could top ABC News Director Justin Stevens’ latest  contribution to the ever-burgeoning array of managerial weasel-speak.

Today, when announcing the “difficult” decision to axe The Drum, “as part of a wider restructure which would see a programs team on the ABC News Channel disbanded and one executive position abolished”, Stevens delivered this 100% pure nugget of fools’ gold:

Stopping things does not diminish their previous value or contribution,

You may be less than surprised to know that Stevens did not moot – let alone announce – any new programming initiative; “savings from discontinuing the program would be redirected to digital output.”

 

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3 Comments

  1. Pathika Pathika

    What ! … it is one of the few remaining programs worth keeping a lookout for current content and discussion & that is worth tuning into! how can that be justified – gormless idea

    • Pathika Pathika

      Doug – I am stunned and growing increasingly annoyed with that decision- put it together with the final comments/ warning given by Ben Ferencz at the finale of last nights doco and it blends together in my thinking as being an aspect of what he was alluding to

      We are losing connections that maintain a healthy society

      It was a real mark my words from a very wise man

      • The Ben Ferencz documentary was first screened on ABC TV last night. (nearly five years after its making, and several months after the ABC-unacknowleged death of its subject) It is a superb doco. Its subject was one of the 20th/21st century’s more thoroughly admirable/remarkable individuals. You can still see it on ABC iview:
        https://iview.abc.net.au/show/prosecuting-evil/video/ZW3812A001S00

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