Adrian Jackson,

What an unfortunate phrase to use, ‘storm in a tea cup’. There is a long list of historical events that originally had this term attached to them and they turned out to be the seeds of major disasters.

The weakness of your argument is shown by your need to resort to the tactic of using derogatory terms such as ‘right wingers’ rather than cogent arguments.

Diana Reynolds

Adrian

Brilliant observation Adrian. Does this indicate to you that Palestine is actually located in the Mediterranean Sea?

There will be no moving on until the ABC gets rid of this false and deceptive map – which incidentally still remains unaltered on the Media Watch site.

That is NOT the point Jackson
The points are:
1. Israel is OMITTED from the map
2. Israel is frequently DISMISSED by the ABC
3. This is not the ABC’s first rodeo – they are DISMISSIVE
Of Israel and recognizing her on a regular basis
4. The ABC owes an (another) apology
5. All of the above is not only repetitive but unacceptable
Stop making excuses for them Jackson; it’s a blight on
Your intelligence

The Palestine tag is shown in the sea too.

Israel and Palestine’s borders are still disputed but this is not the issue here.

This map issues is getting neurotic by the right wingers in this debate and have been going on for over a month. Move on.

Adrian

I am afraid you are the one who does not get it.

What has been established so far is:

1. The map in question was prepared by someone within the ABC or on that person’s instructions. The fact it was not an atlas map is irrelevant.

2. The map showed “Israel” being labelled as “Palestine” – which is misleading, deceptive and a downright lie.

3. The reasons initially given for doing this have been blown out of the water by the revelation that what happened was in fact really caused by “human error”. Whether this was intentional or not remains to be determined.

This is not a storm in a teacup – it is the calm before the storm. There are some very serious questions the ABC needs to answer about these extraordinary events.

Erica

The ABC will be doing its image a great disservice if it is not prepared to get to the bottom of this biased reporting and the attempt to cover up that “human error” was what caused Israel to be wiped off the map and “Palestine” substituted.

AACA has referred my concerns to Media Watch, ABC News and ABC Television for their consideration. That is a good start. I hope each of these ABC arms address my concerns without delay.

John

Whether the “human error” now uncovered by my complaint was intentional or not seems to be something the ABC is not too interested in exploring at the moment.

However I hope they will be eventually forced to go down that route. One obviously needs patience when dealing with our $1 billion annually-taxpayer funded- ABC. Apologizing does not come easily to this behemoth.

The ABC also needs to explain why “human error” was not given as the reason when the following official explanation was given for Israel being wiped off the map by Sally Jackson Media Manager ABC News:

“On Thursday 17 August, ABC News broadcast a story about the repealing of a law in Lebanon that allowed rapists to escape punishment if they married their victims. The accompanying graphic showed countries where this law had already been repealed (in blue) and countries where campaigners were actively trying to have it repealed (in yellow). This law does not exist in Israel, and never has, so it was not shown in the graphic.

The graphic did not represent a map of the Middle East but a visual representation of the countries relevant to the story.”

That explanation has now been blown out of the water and been shown to be misleading and deceptive.

There is a lot more in this “Mapgate” saga to be revealed.

Hopefully the ABC will fess up and make a full investigation into this disgraceful incident.

As they say in the classics – watch this space.

Dear Mr Nemesh,

You are absolutely correct – but human error? There are obviously no homosapiens working either in the ABC’s Television Newsroom/Media Watch or in the ABC’s complaints department. Probably this applies to the entire ABC organisation. Watch this space!!!!

Nevertheless we must continue to fight the good fight against hatred and blind ignorance.

Congratulations David Singer.

Human error my a..e!

It was deliberate human exclusion of Israel and inclusion of Palestine .

The person who did it and got away with it should be kept away from maps from now on.

but will it happen?

The ABC is a clubhouse for greens and left labor……I know .