ABC’s Q&A – So Much For The Free World!
A Q+A audience member has been slammed following a sensational blow up with ABC host Stan Grant over the Ukraine conflict.
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Well, that’s true to some extent, as it’s easy for a shallow character like Stan Grant, to win lots of cheap hoorahs the way he did.
But I remember Question Time, broadcast in London, as Britain was fighting an indisputably just war to rescue the Falkland Islanders from a dictator’s aggression.
A young man rose to ask a question, introducing himself as a citizen of Argentina.
He was heard in silence.
Nobody screamed and shouted abuse at him.
The Question Time host, or was it hostess – that I don’t remember – certainly did not act like a Galtieri, or a Putin.
The man was not declared unwelcome, not banished from the studio.
The Argie was not ordered out, or ‘booted’ out, which makes both that 1980s audience – and that host – morally more gifted than those at Q&A, as one Australian site reports – Grant decided to take action, booting the questioner in emotional scenes.
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Another report is very revealing about how much free speech is allowed on that talk-show.
Once the man had left, Stan explained to the audience that the question the man asked hadn’t been vetted, apologising for what had happened.
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Kemangeroo are discussing. 
Chesney is discussing. 
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Kemangeroo 22:57 on March 4, 2022 Permalink |
I don’t think the young Russian should have been treated so rudely.
I might have been ready to debate him, even angrily, but to banish him?
Not right.
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Jim Ex Jakarta 23:18 on March 4, 2022 Permalink |
That Stan man behaved very unprofessionally.
If most of the crowd were shouting the Russian down, it was the chairman’s job to tell them to cool it.
Instead he sided with the mob.
And what’s the point of a, question and answer program if they pre-censor the questions?
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