Thread by @ClareNegus, The bitter attack in ABC WA in The West's IC cover today [...]

Clare Negus

ClareNegus

The bitter attack in ABC WA in The West's IC cover today failed to mention the following...
The ABC's Broome team was nominated for a Walkley for coverage of the Kimberley child suicide crisis https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-07/kimberley-child-suicides-blamed-on-inter-generational-trauma/10783016

Coroner says 'tragic intergenerational trauma' caused cluster of child suicides

Western Australia's coroner describes the deaths of more than a dozen young Indigenous people aged as young as 10 as profoundly tragic, individually and collectively. 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-07/kimberley-child-suicides-blamed-on-inter-generational-trauma/10783016

The staff in WA also operate seven radio stations and reporting teams across nine sites in WA; Perth, Albany, Bunbury, Kalgoorlie, Geraldton, Karratha, Broome, with staff also in Esperance and Kununurra.

No other media in WA delivers the public service of Emergency Broadcasting the way ABC does.
Emergency Broadcasting has become more and more resource heavy and expensive in recent years as the frequency of fires increases.

And in terms of stories, here's just a few from regional WA which, if we were petty, we could have run as "Exclusives"
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-16/wasps-enlisted-to-control-crazy-ants-on-christmas-island/10666868

https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/rural-news/2019-05-30/mass-live-pig-burials-millions-culled-china-african-swine-fever/11146642

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-14/chinese-owners-ordered-to-rehabilitate-yakka-munga-station/11513170

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-08/kelly-slater-opens-up-about-sunny-garcia-suicide-attempt/11191684

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-23/family-speaks-about-kimberley-girls-suicide/10017252 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-24/families-prepare-for-inquest-into-deadly-esperance-bushfires/10893404

'We need answers': Families brace for Esperance fires inquest

Four years after a farmer and three farm workers perished in bushfires, questions remain. But locals are hoping some good comes out of an inquest starting on Monday.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-16/wasps-enlisted-to-control-crazy-ants-on-christmas-island/10666868

To my colleagues at the ABC in WA. The quality of our work speaks for itself. We are on the ground where commercial media has stripped back resources. Be proud of what we create for this big, beautiful state and country.

We don't have time for schoolyard bullying.

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