Australian youth broadcaster triple j has come under fire in an article published in Murdoch outlet The Australian, with the newspaper saying the station has taken over the ABC with an “anti-establishment ethos”.
When approached by The Music, triple j said they had no comment on the piece penned by former editor-in-chief Chris Mitchell that says journalists are now “so publicly contemptuous of everyday Australians”.
“In my view, the ABC has been slowly taken over from the inside, culturally at least, by Triple J. The anti-establishment ethos of the ABC’s home of alternative music eventually infiltrated television and radio,” Mitchell’s In Amnesia suits the politics of today’s media generation piece reads.
Naming triple j ‘graduates’ Steve Cannane, Angela Catterns, Dr Karl, Wil Anderson and more, he goes on to describe the station’s outlook as a “kind of radical chic”.
“The new cultural leaders turn out to be a pretty moralising, humourless bunch who actually oppose freedom of thought and expression. For political reasons mind you.”
“Something odd is happening in our media when journalists are so publicly contemptuous of everyday Australians; those people who make up journalists’ audiences.”
Mitchell’s takedown follows a string of similar Murdoch campaigns orchestrated in England against the BBC, and sees him cite political reasons for triple j’s movements.
