ABC’s Mark Scott ‘Sorry’ Over Chris Kenny Sketch

[icyfroth]

The boss of the ABC has apologised to conservative commentator Chris Kenny for a Chaser skit that depicted him having sex with a dog.

ABC managing director Mark Scott released a written statement today apologising to Mr Kenny, nearly seven months after the photoshopped image appeared during a skit in The Hamster Decides.

The national broadcaster received more than 200 complaints about the crude image but the ABC's complaints department found it had not breach editorial policies.

Mr Kenny has since proceeded with a defamation lawsuit against the ABC.

In the statement Mr Scott said he had come to the decision the ABC "should not have put the skit to air".

"Having reviewed the issue, in my opinion it falls short of the quality demanded by our audience and normally delivered by our programming," Mr Scott said.

"While Mr Kenny is a strong and persistent critic of the ABC, and can expect to be a subject of satire, the depiction of him was very strong in the context of the satirical point attempted."

Mr Scott said he had called Mr Kenny to apologise to him and his family and also regretted the delay in making an apology, saying he was originally waiting for internal and Australian Communications and Media Authority reviews.

Chaser team member Julian Morrow responded to Mr Scott's apology by tweeting a digitally altered photo of the ABC boss having sex with a hamster in the same vein Mr Kenny's image was used.

Mr Kenny has not yet commented on the apology but the Twitter account for his Sky News show has retweeted various tweets about it.

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The ABC seems to be doing a lot of apologising lately.

[lakeland27]

 its a one way street obviously. if you dont like someone they are sociopaths with narcissistic tendencies. at least thats what the usual suspects from News have said.   most of the readers googled the terms last week when they were used to describe Carr like Rudd before him. News readers have 2 new expressions to cover things they disapprove of now..

[icyfroth]

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@just_me_karen wrote:
The ABC serves all sectors of the Australian community, not just city dwellers living in flats. They serve teenagers, older people, migrants, artists, every cohort you can imagine. That's one thing that makes them special, compared to other channels that serve a narrow audience.

Just because you don't like the Crikey jokes, it doesn't mean others dislike them. Their target market most likely isn't you.

I don't like the boring children's shows on abc, but I don't rant about taking them off the air.

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It seems they're so special they're constantly having to apologise

A sorry lot indeed.

[just_me_karen]

Um yes, it's because the right wing sooks keep threatening legal action.

Don't worry, they are only pretendy apologies.

[lakeland27]

precisely .

[kilroy_is_here]

Well Karen if you were as learned as you make out you would know that sociopathic and narcissistic are personality traits that are extremely common in many high profile jobs including TV ,movies, politics and business , I use them to describe their personalities not as name calling, but please don't let the truth get I the way of your petty mocking

[silverfaun]

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@kilroy_is_here wrote:
Well Karen if you were as learned as you make out you would know that sociopathic and narcissistic are personality traits that are extremely common in many high profile jobs including TV ,movies, politics and business , I use them to describe their personalities not as name calling, but please don't let the truth get I the way of your petty mocking

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Kevin Rudd was described as a narcissistic sociopath by his own comrades, his own party, so  trying to say that the dreaded Murdoch papers were the only ones to use that descriptor is wrong.

As for the Chaser, well if I want to watch infantile revue, I would go back to uni and watch it there.

This type of thing depicting, bestiality,  has no place in mainstream media let alone a taxpayer funded one.

Now where's the marketplace of outrage here???  So, to infer the Bory Bernadi advocated bestiality and the left went ballistic, screamed and writhed in an ecstasy of outrage,  still are, but  condone and even support this appalling picture on TV for everybody to see??.

Say no more.

[icyfroth]

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@silverfaun wrote:

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@kilroy_is_here wrote:
Well Karen if you were as learned as you make out you would know that sociopathic and narcissistic are personality traits that are extremely common in many high profile jobs including TV ,movies, politics and business , I use them to describe their personalities not as name calling, but please don't let the truth get I the way of your petty mocking

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Kevin Rudd was described as a narcissistic sociopath by his own comrades, his own party, so  trying to say that the dreaded Murdoch papers were the only ones to use that descriptor is wrong.

As for the Chaser, well if I want to watch infantile revue, I would go back to uni and watch it there.

This type of thing depicting, bestiality,  has no place in mainstream media let alone a taxpayer funded one.

Now where's the marketplace of outrage here???  So, to infer the Bory Bernadi advocated bestiality and the left went ballistic, screamed and writhed in an ecstasy of outrage,  still are, but  condone and even support this appalling picture on TV for everybody to see??.

Say no more.

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Excellent post, Faun.