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.”
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
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