What happened to freedom of speech?!
by Amanda Meade, The Guardian/ msn.com,
31 October 2016
The ABC’s Catalyst program is to lose its weekly slot and its 11 staff – including the suspended presenter Maryanne Demasi – made redundant under a radical plan which has been approved by the ABC board.
Under the plan the in-house magazine-style program will be replaced by 17 one-hour science specials, mainly from the independent production sector.
But senior ABC program makers have warned that ditching the weekly half-hour program and disbanding the science unit would lead to a dumbing down of science programming and effectively kill off Australian science on television.
The ABC’s Catalyst program is to lose its weekly slot and its 11 staff – including the suspended presenter Maryanne Demasi – made redundant under a radical plan which has been approved by the ABC board.
Under the plan the in-house magazine-style program will be replaced by 17 one-hour science specials, mainly from the independent production sector.
But senior ABC program makers have warned that ditching the weekly half-hour program and disbanding the science unit would lead to a dumbing down of science programming and effectively kill off Australian science on television.