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The Racial Hatred Act: Case study 5

 case study5turning research findings into copy - a process of selection

Introduction:

  • interpretation of complex research findings, surveys, and polls
    in news stories

Reports:

Comment:

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:

 "Quotation Mark"

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.

 "Quotation Mark"

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