- interpretation of complex research findings, surveys, and polls in news stories
Reports:
- 'Federal laws blamed for Sydney's welfare ghettos', Paul Sheehan, The Sydney Morning Herald, 1 July 96
- 'Ethnic ghettos claim 'irresponsible', Illawarra Mercury, 2 July 96
- 'Urban Ghettos', Melbourne Yarra Leader, 8 July 96
Comment:
- The following journalists/editors comment on their coverage of Ernest Healy's report.
- The Sydney Morning Herald's Paul Sheehan
- AAP's Margaret McDonald
- The Illawarra Mercury's Peter Cullen
- The Melbourne Yarra Leader's Bob Osburn
- Ernest Healy, researcher and author of 'Welfare benefits and residential concentrations amongst recently arrived migrant communities' on how his report was misinterpreted by the media.
- The Federation of Ethnic Communities Councils of Australia comments on the harm done to communities through the use of loaded language and offensive terminology in the media.
Please note that none of the reports in the case studies have been the subject of complaints or queries under the Racial Hatred Act.
Peter Cullen, Editor in Chief, Illawarra Mercury, comments:
There is really no hard and fast policy on how race issues are reported in the Mercury except to say that one tries to be as sensitive and as decent as possible. Our job is to report the news by presenting the facts and the place to make moral judgements is in editorial columns.
In terms of this article on Healy's report, we ran it straight off the wire - it's AAP's story. We don't check the AAP sources because we pay them a big fee to do the checks and balances on reports. Naturally we would undertake those checks and balances if the article reported a local angle and local sources were used.
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