The ABC has been forced to back down after publishing an article which likened two journalists to Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik.
The ‘Western Civilization and Conservative Hysteria’ article which appeared on the public broadcaster’s religion and ethics website on Thursday was critical of The Australian’s Greg Sheridan and Chris Kenny.
The contributor piece, written by University of Sydney Professor of Modern History A. Dirk Moses, named the two News Corp employees after the paper published articles criticising a proposed undergraduate program.
The ABC has been forced to back down after a contributor piece on its religion and ethics website likened two journalists to Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik (pictured)
The Australian newspaper’s Greg Sheridan (left) and Chris Kenny (right) were criticised in the article which was posted on the ABC’s religion and ethics website
Those articles concerned a decision between the Australian National University and the Ramsay Centre to call off talks about a Western civilisation degree.
‘Do members of the right-wing commentariat think that Western countries are succumbing to a poisonous cocktail of multiculturalism, Muslim immigration, political correctness and cultural Marxism that dilutes the white population and brainwashes young people at school and university? It seems that, much like Anders Breivik and Steve Bannon, they do,’ Professor Moses had initially written, The Australian reported.
Professor Moses had taken particular issue with Mr Sheridan’s ‘extraordinary statement that the ANU’s decision “is a pivotal moment in modern Australian history”?’
The article was later amended to remove Anders Breivik’s name. The reference to Mr Bannon, the former strategist to US President Donald Trump, is still listed.
University of Sydney Professor of Modern History, A. Dirk Moses (pictured), wrote a piece on the ABC’s religion and ethics website which had to be amended
The article on the ABC’s religion and ethics website still includes a reference to Steve Bannon (pictured), the former strategist to U. S. President Donald Trump
‘Note: This article has been edited to remove a reference to Anders Breivik,’ the bottom of the piece from Professor Moses now reads.
The ABC was forced to make the amendment after it found the article was not in line with its own editorial guidelines.
‘The reference was removed because it was not consistent with the ABC’s editorial standards,’ an ABC spokeswoman said.
Mr Moses told The Australian he ‘did not intend to imply anyone was a mass murderer’.
Breivik murdered 77 people in Norway on July 22, 2011, first setting-off a car bomb outside the government headquarters in Oslo, before opening fire on an annual summer camp on the island of Utoya.