Australia’s old media companies and their propagandists the ABC, News Corp and Nine’s Neil Mitchell have joined forces to a attack and defame independent journalist Antoinette Lattouf.
This week it was revealed in evidence at the Fair Work Commission that the ABC’s communication department leaked Antoinette Lattouf’s sacking to News Corp’s The Australian which was obviously an attempt to defame Ms Lattouf. The leak would have been approved at the highest levels in the ABC.
Antoinette Lattouf was sacked by the ABC because she shared on Instagram a Human Rights Watch post about Israel’s starvation strategy as a weapon of war. But the ABC had already reported on the exact same matter so how can the ABC report on it but Antoinette Lattouf is deemed guilty of some sackable offence.
The reality is that a lobbyist group called “Lawyers for Israel” lobbied ABC Chair Ita Buttrose and bullied the ABC into sacking Antoinette Lattouf, 3 days into her 5 day radio hosting role, because they didn’t like her previous reporting on the Gaza crisis.
Antoinette Lattouf has taken a principled stand and is fighting the ABC in a Fair Work Hearing this week and she used her Twitter account to report the details. This resulted in Nine propagandist Neil Mitchell sticking his nose in with the old dog whistling trick to attack Antoinette Lattouf which I discuss in the below video:
Antoinette Lattouf published the below message on Twitter on the 9th of March 2024. (Click here to see on Twitter)
There can be no doubt that Antoinette Lattouf is reporting on her own court case and she links to an article on the SMH website to support what she said so there is nothing wrong with it.
But Neil Mitchell says in response “Is it really appropriate to be publicly analyzing and reporting your own case ?” (Click here to see on Twitter) which is an attempt to dog whistle his 71,000 twitter followers to attack Antoinette Lattouf for being “sneaky and dishonest” for having the audacity to report on her own case.
Mitchell doesn’t use the words “sneaky and dishonest” but that is what he is clearly implying because he is a grub. Mitchell made no comment about the ABC leaking the sacking to News Corp’s The Australian because Mitchell is part of the club as per his below Twitter profile.
Neil Mitchell retired as a radio announcer on 3AW but based on his twitter profile he still works at 3AW as a “news analyst” which is owned by Nine Entertainment.
Antoinette Lattouf took a principled stand to fight the ABC and for her trouble the ABC have called in support from Rupert Murdoch’s The Australian to defame Lattouf and the ABC are also getting support from Nine’s cowardly Neil Mitchell.
That is the old media working as a pack trying to brutally silence journalists, in this case on behalf of the group Lawyers for Israel, and also sending a message to other old media journalists not to rock the boat.
This is why Australia needs as many independent journalists as we can get as the old media sold out the public long ago.
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Every time I see Neil Mitchell, I feel like I’m the kid in The Sixth Sense who can see people that are unaware that they have died.
Some people don’t know when to retire & stay out of the limelight do they Neil Mitchell?
It’s about time that Ita and the execrable Mitchell were consigned to the rubbish bin for old, useless RW nutjobs.
The ABC definitely needs a shake up. Now it’s just another Rupert megaphone.
Why haven’t the people ( many of whom are undeclared foreign agents ) who targeted, or acted against, Lattouf been charged with terrorism, given the legislation is so broad, and or why hasn’t NSW Premier Mins charged the Lawyers for Israel and the group who forged the Gas the Jews video with crimes under multiple sections of the NSW crimes act – especially under specific NSW Crimes act sections relating to ethnic incitement to violence which some of the Lawyers actually lobbied for themselves like section 93 Z ?
If I acted this way targeting apologists for Israeli Genocide in trying to get them sacked and or terrorize them , their families and friends I would be up on charges faster than you can say “blatant hypocrisy”. I mean Mins was obviously going to charge the people who he STATED had said “Gas the Jews” so why hasn’t he used the same legislation to charge the creators of this targeted incitement to violence ???
David Anderson the ABC boss was asking about Lattouf on the first morning of her being on air so we can safely assume she was the target of a terrorism plot first thing Monday morning – and likely before she was even on air !
Why wasn’t Anderson asked about who lobbied him , and Ita , and on what basis, on the Monday morning in Senate Estimates ? Why has he not said who targeted him to get Lattouf sacked as part of commitment to the ABC charter and or basic honesty ?
Could it be the Minister of Communications was also involved in her sacking given we know she was targeted by the same “Lobbyists” who in reality are neither declared lobbyists nor listed Foreign agents , so legally where does that leave them under multiple bits of federal and state legislation ? yet they seem to have both unfettered and unlimited power for getting people removed from their employment who have committed no crime at multiple Australian employers, and in several states, all funded by Australian taxpayers in one form or another – and they are just the ones we know about so far.
Multiple Australian women have been murdered while pleading for anti doxing legislation over the last 20 years all without success and then we have a few Foreign agents get outed terrorizing Australian citizens for legally held views like “peace’ and ‘not murdering or starving children’ and suddenly within 24 hours we have anti doxing legislation on the cusp of being passed – so why now and not over the last 20 years – so are murdered Australian women are worth less than other Australian women who are terrorizing Australian citizens who have committed no crime ?
Can anyone explain why people of one group are able to so successfully target anyone who they disagree with in this so called Democracy with total impunity ?
Then boast about it and then get all upset when there is very slight push back but no actual ‘official’ come back at all – let alone being questioned and or charged ? ( unless your involved in the slight push back in which case it seems your on your own )
Or are we just all now de-facto citizens of Israel who MUST toe the Zionist line as well as being long term members of the 51st state of America regardless of who is in power federally ?
How many Australian citizens are currently committing genocide , and or multiple different war crimes , fighting for Israel ,a foreign power , in Palestine and will they even be questioned when they return to Australia – or instead publicly feted and possibly even given a job that some one else was removed from for their opinion at tax payers expense ?
👏🏻 well said Greg.
Those questions will go unanswered, but we know the answers anyway.
None of us have the power to go up against those who are in control, and those with power are being controlled.
The Genocide continues, and the ‘leaders’ allow it, the purpose serves them.
I don’t know what to do 😪
Today’s legacy news-media know what readership butters most of their bread and accordingly go in that self-compromised editorial direction.
Genuine journalists with integrity would tender their resignations and publicly proclaim they can no longer help propagate their employer’s corrupt media product, be it from the Right or Left. They’d definitely not excuse themselves with: ‘but I have a spouse and kids to feed!’, as though they were forced into coupling, copulating and procreating.
What day is that nasty old piece, Ita, finally leaving the ABC?
I hope her departure is followed by more of the die-hard ‘con’servatives in there.
David Anderson SHOULD be sacked for not following the company charter.
At the moment the ABC is being directed by the IPA, obviously biased toward the LNP, with Murdoch, Rinehart, Stokes, Nine, et al, as well as the lobby groups they support, calling the shots.
If they continue to get their way, it will be sold off, privatised into the waiting Right Wing hands, for pittance.
The ABC is our public broadcaster.
It SHOULD run independent of all other media.
It SHOULD be unbiased, unfavorable to any particular government party or agenda.
Once it’s gone, it’s gone.
All the very best to Antoinette in her fight against the unfair dismissal 💜
Anderson & Buttrose, how dare you 🤬
Brilliantly expresses my sentiments entirely. Thank you for that post>
A rotting family tree is what Ita Buttrose will be left with. At least most of us on our deathbeds will have our family and friends by our sides grieving and praying for our best. Butt rose will have nothing but salivating vultures ready to swoop on her financial carcass because that is all she means to them.
It seems to increasingly be a-buck-and-a-byline ‘journalism’ out there — motivated more by a regular paycheck and frequently published name/face with stories or opinions — rather than a genuine strive to challenge the powers-that-be: To truly comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable in an increasingly unjust global existence.
Mainstream journalism’s traditional function may be quietly changing. The adage-description of journalism’s fundamental function can remain the same, but revision of terminological representation is definitely in order. While it remains “comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable,” there may be an alteration to what/who constitutes an “afflicted” and “the comfortable”.
For example, an “afflicted” of our contemporary news-media times needing comforting may be an owner of a multi-million-dollar home that’s worth too much, thus taxed higher, and he/she therefore desires tax respite. Or, the new “afflicted” requiring news-media comforting may be the IDF, when in the past it may have rightly been the Palestinians; as the latter resist gradually having their ancestral lands annexed and being cleansed from it [ironically, the figurative David fighting the Israeli Goliath].
The new “afflicted” may also mean news-media comfort, for example, an already very profitable fossil-fuel-producing corporation ‘needing’ more taxpayer-funded subsidies, not to mention our convenient complacency as it multiplies many-fold its environmental threats for the sake of even greater profit.
On the matter of public expression, also troubling is that mainstream news-outlet websites, including The Washington Post’s, are increasingly converting to pay-to-say formats, where the reader is allowed to consume the article without charge but must buy a subscription in order to comment on the article.
Meantime, there still are reporters and editors who will reply to accusations of subjective journalism with, ‘Who, me? I’m just the messenger.’ Whatever the news media may be, they’re not ‘just the messenger’; nor are they but a reflection of the community in which they circulate.
As one who has consumed the news regularly since the late 1980s, I’d say the field of journalism has problematically become overly corporatized thus more readily externally manipulated and compromised.