The politicians in all of our free nations have suddenly realized how powerful propaganda is. Warring nations have used this tactic successfully since war began.
These past 10 years really has been a graduate level course on Propaganda. Just rearranging footage and a few choice words at a certain time in the presentation and a completely new reality is created.....and this is the real genius, the propagandist can technically say that they never lied, but their false Narrative is still created. It's enough to make Goebbels weep with envy.
It's "legal" though. I believe it was NBC who edited George Zimmerman's 911 call a decade or so ago to make him look like a racist. He sued and lost based on the "news" organization being able to "sensationalize" news reporting, even if it means slander through lies.
They put soldiers lives at risk, and the action threatened national security - its actually treason, a charge that faced hanging not too long ago. It carries the death penalty still in many countries.
Well all of mainstream media is owned by 4 billionaires George Sorros owns 15 % of Foxnews let that sink in. Check out who is advertising in the commercials mainstream media is in the toilet as they get less views than some RUclips reactors😂
@@Jeremyho439 This is ABC (Australia Broadcasting Company) not the US ABC. Kamala has nothing to do with it, BUT, your comment does apply to US MSM though.
That would require this not to be pushing the prescribed ideological agenda of west = evil, white men = evil. Go look around - go look at the education system, the entertainment media, and more. It's absolutely fucking disgusting. But to be clear: My personal opinion there are two things that are needed. 1. Cut all government funding. 2. Court order a requirement that ABC puts in every podcast, every news segment: "ABC news has been ordered by the courts to disclose that it has been caught red handed falsifying records, editing video and audio to purposefully misslead the public in pushing a prescribed ideologically driven agenda." And why? The world is more and more internet first. The company could rebrand, and simply shift to online media first - avoiding the backlash, and allowing the same assholes to continue to do what they are doing: They would be harmed, sure - but with good business strategizing they would basically see no real loss given the sheer cost of operating a broadcast news organization in terms of the people. By making the company disclose it's changing of brand, and disclose the tampering with video/audio clips for the expressed purpose of missleading the public in a way that slanders honest people - every person associated becomes toxic sludge for the industry, every other news outlet dabbling in this kind of stuff goes "nope, not even once". Functionally, this would be a death sentence to ABC. And that's the point - to kill the company with a penalty that matches the disgusting disgrace of the act they committed. A kind of penalty that can stand up to scrutiny through argument of fair dealing. But also - by cutting it loose and forcing it to stand on it's own merit, instead of soaking up tax payer dollars while lying and cheating the public.
"exclusive licenses for stations to broadcast at certain frequencies" Broadcast rights aren't about who's allowed to talk. It's who's assigned what channels. We live in a digital age man. You can take away their broadcasting rights. They'll still keep posting to their yourube account 😂 Your a silly Billy. Maybe know what your talking about first
Why they get less views than a RUclips reactor 4 billionaires own all of mainstream media George Sorros owns 15% of Foxnews news if your getting your news from just mainstream media your clueless.
Yup, time for ABC to become private subscription only, either UK BBC TV license style or Netflix via internet only style. ABC completely irredeemable in its current form.
@@ashleyshipp8340 No, you complete douche bag. Held accountable for intentionally trying to frame someone for a WAR CRIME. What is wrong with your brain?
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It's not the first time. abc took a video of a Kentucky gun show and LIED, edited, and cropped the people in lawn chairs out of the video and aired it on national television and claimed it was the Kurds attacking Syria. It was all a fabricated lie and no one did anything about it.
Despicable! As an Afghanistan Combat Veteran this makes me sick! ABC will NEVER be on in my house again. We had a saying in Afghanistan; "Don't fear the enemy he can only take your life. Fear the press they can take your honor".... Looks like these operators followed the ROE in place as it was written.
I haven't watched the ABC for years. Many of their so called journalists are activists, so they lie and cheat to achieve their agenda. I prefer Sky News Australia.
They turned into a woke military, drag queens dances, dei hire to top generals, what do you expect. Recruitment will suffer until these kids are taught to love their country. The school system need a overhaul and stop making Marxist out of our kids. It’s a sad time to be an American right now. The elite billionaires behind these politicians need to be jailed. We need trump, that’s why they are doing everything in mainstream media and Hollywood to destroy trumps reputation. He is not part of their elite Washington corrupt lab. The wef wants to destroy America from within. That why they use the race card, wokeness, dei, and open borders. They want a new voter base of illegals to offset the American vote. They will never give up power.
Oh Hell no ! watch them give him a promotion like Kamala and hide in the basement like FJB It’s the same plsybook Worked before . 🇺🇸 I should be crying over this but I’m getting so numb it’s scary
They have done it before and got away with it. abc took a video of a Kentucky gun show and LIED, edited, and cropped the people in lawn chairs out of the video and aired it on national television and claimed it was the Kurds attacking Syria. It was all a fabricated lie and no one did anything about it.
If anyone from the departments popped their head above the trenches to defend him, they would be targeted too. It's rule by fear. Western governments are no different than other regimes.
It’s hard enough to stay alive in a combat zone, don’t need the additional pressure of trying to second-guess a news network trying to undermine everything you do there.
Sue their asses, all of them the DOD and ABC. I'm a veteran and we can't stand this. It's bad enough putting your life on the line, for some of us almost 20 years in Afghanistan, then to come home to this BS. Unacceptable!
Defamation - a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions. Seems like Mr Russell has perfect grounds to sue.
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Yes.... wonder what Albo will do with that misinformation. If nothing it will become a precedent for folks to use as a contest against Albo for any fine against them.
just stop watching them. that will defund them as advertisers won't pay without eyeballs to see their ads. then once nobody is watching , there is no reason for govt to fund it. take away the justification.
I believe the ABC plays a crucial role in rural areas particularly during disasters, however both the ABC and SBS have been variously either lying or misinforming the public for a number of years now for agendas they are running on issues. Unfortunately reporters and management for these media organisations think they have a right to do it. So for me it wouldn’t be a defunding but a complete cleaning out of management, producers and journalists. Start again, decide what its brief is and force them to it. A case like this where footage has been doctored should result in criminal prosecution.
It was not an error. The precise timing of the additional shots in the video, and Willasee's corresponding fake narrative in the voice-over, make the 'accidental" claim utterly implausible.
This reminds me of the way the media doctored the footage of the UK miners strike in 1984. They totally turned it round to show the miners attacking police, when it was the complete opposite. I was there and I saw it with the evidence of my own eyes. Disgraceful media coverage.
I worked as a news video editor for a German public broadcaster (years ago, when journalistic ethos was still a thing), and I can say that in my experience, there is NO way they didn't watch the entire footage, and NO way they can blame "changing" the information of footage in this way on a mishap. There's at the very least three people involved who have to check the veracity of their edits.
He did sue for defamation and won with an award of only $390,000 as compensation. The deliberate falsification of video and story narrative was done to ensure this man was convicted of a crime. The crime was committed by the ABC and all involved with this.
@@Flight042 Then I believe this falls squarely into the following bracket that I wrote in a different reply. "Doesn’t this fall under the “Misinformation news” that the government wants to stop. Yet our own government funded channel broadcasted this lie". The government want to stop Facebook and X and other platforms, from allowing false information to be spread on their platforms. Surely this goes well past the threshold of "Misinformation" being spread on Social Media. The Gov't should remind themselves that the ABC did also place this story onto their "Social Media" accounts. If the gov't wish to say that someone claiming that a (For example) politician used a publicly funded car to go shopping, and it wasn't true, they'd demand that story be removed because it's "Misinformation". Yet they did nothing about their own gov't funded broadcaster placing this total lie online and run on air. Absolute double standards.
Sue for millions. 400k? Rubbish. Their deception has ruined a man’s reputation and possibly his career. He needs to be awarded a few, tens of millions of dollars.
Because we are being manipulated and gas lit by globalist sold out politicians and the ABC is part of their propaganda machine. We are being controlled by totalitarian tyrants that have no patriotism.
@@bernicecanty721 I believe that's for court trials. This is defamation & possibly going against their mission of public news broadcast - fabricating news shouldn't be allowed for a publicly funded news channel.
So a soldier signs up to serve his country, then goes to active combat and puts his life on the line and they make up stories about him and try to ruin his life? Wow I think the only thing worse than this is harming children, this is beyond disgusting!
State broadcasters in most of the west are completely compromised by foreign intelligence. Constantly trying to walk us into war with Russia then turning around and arguing against funding the military, constantly trying to attack our own soldiers and make criminals of them. CBC, ABC, BBC, all of them need to GO and preferably every other mainstream news outlet, "state" or not.
@@SaltyBob355 The ABC would be insolvent if the Commonwealth government didn’t hand over $1bn each year for them to mercilessly and unapologetically wage war on moderate/ mainstream and conservative figures and institutions.
I understand where you’re coming from, but you can’t sue them into bankruptcy since our bloody taxpayers dollars go into funding the ABC. They should be shut down and the individuals who doctored the footage should be sued into bankruptcy.
The ABC needs to be accountable for this vile, dishonest reporting. Great sympathy to Heston Russell and his men for the suffering this must have brought to them and their families and admiration for Heston Russell's courage in fighting for the truth..
The DOD had evidence that would have exonerated him in the first instance that they failed to provide. He was hung out to dry by his superiors and received little, if any, support.
10% of ABC’s annual revenue should go to the soldier. That’s how you make them stop doing this rubbish. Their overall revenue by the way, not their profits.
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Propaganda, not Press.
The politicians in all of our free nations have suddenly realized how powerful propaganda is. Warring nations have used this tactic successfully since war began.
Slopaganda
These past 10 years really has been a graduate level course on Propaganda. Just rearranging footage and a few choice words at a certain time in the presentation and a completely new reality is created.....and this is the real genius, the propagandist can technically say that they never lied, but their false Narrative is still created. It's enough to make Goebbels weep with envy.
This is malicious. And an attack on the military as well as a personal attack on these soldiers.
It is not propaganda but ABC is involved in organized deceptive and deliberate Plan to DECEIVE the American people of the Truth.
An "error?" You don't "accidentally" switch footage around and add shots. That wasn't an error! That was deliberate and inexcusable!
As was the director's lies that he had communicated with the "source" multiple times!
That was an outright falsehood.
Totally!
Are they above fixing a debate 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
It's "legal" though. I believe it was NBC who edited George Zimmerman's 911 call a decade or so ago to make him look like a racist. He sued and lost based on the "news" organization being able to "sensationalize" news reporting, even if it means slander through lies.
Plus perfectly line up the first shot audio in the first place by "mistake"
Sue ABC. 250 million dollars sounds like a good number.
Nice round figure.
But what do you sue them for. hearsay? Cool good luck proving damages
I believe the ABC should be criminally charged.
I agree, they absolutely lied and destroyed this young man and should be held responsible!
And charged under whatever 'providing material support to terrorists' laws Australia has...
Defamation for sure and this could've endangered his life.
@@Monica-v3h It certainly deserves a thorough -- external -- investigation.
They put soldiers lives at risk, and the action threatened national security - its actually treason, a charge that faced hanging not too long ago. It carries the death penalty still in many countries.
ABC needs to be defunded and abolished.
Well all of mainstream media is owned by 4 billionaires George Sorros owns 15 % of Foxnews let that sink in. Check out who is advertising in the commercials mainstream media is in the toilet as they get less views than some RUclips reactors😂
Absolutely mate
The owner of ABC owns most all news channels in America
Defunded? You think we're commies? They fund themselves.
@@OnPoints-p3mNO YOUR YNBRED PYGBRAIN DOES NOT WORK😂😂😂
Adding gunshots is not an error. It is a deliberate act.
The whole invasion of Afghanistan was a deliberate criminal act.
ABC should lose their broadcasting license.
Not according to Kamala Harris
Absolutely!
They've all been infiltrated by the CYA, they're protected and compromised entities.
Yes, nothing less.
@@Jeremyho439 This is ABC (Australia Broadcasting Company) not the US ABC. Kamala has nothing to do with it, BUT, your comment does apply to US MSM though.
$400 thousand is insufficient for that crime.
If the subject of the video had been black the amount would have been 400 million
400 million might get their attention.
And our same Government pay 2.4 million to women for not getting raped !!
@@eddiemunster8634 what
For real. $40M
ABC should lose their broadcasting license. Period.
They did one dodgy edit and you want their licence revoked? Posted on a channel where complete stories are concocted and invented.
@@Gough-jf9zfHuh, a highly opinionated account that is only 5 months old.
I can picture your life, and it is pathetic.
Really? That's crazy. Which stories have been fabricated?@@Gough-jf9zf
That would require this not to be pushing the prescribed ideological agenda of west = evil, white men = evil. Go look around - go look at the education system, the entertainment media, and more. It's absolutely fucking disgusting.
But to be clear: My personal opinion there are two things that are needed.
1. Cut all government funding.
2. Court order a requirement that ABC puts in every podcast, every news segment: "ABC news has been ordered by the courts to disclose that it has been caught red handed falsifying records, editing video and audio to purposefully misslead the public in pushing a prescribed ideologically driven agenda."
And why?
The world is more and more internet first. The company could rebrand, and simply shift to online media first - avoiding the backlash, and allowing the same assholes to continue to do what they are doing: They would be harmed, sure - but with good business strategizing they would basically see no real loss given the sheer cost of operating a broadcast news organization in terms of the people.
By making the company disclose it's changing of brand, and disclose the tampering with video/audio clips for the expressed purpose of missleading the public in a way that slanders honest people - every person associated becomes toxic sludge for the industry, every other news outlet dabbling in this kind of stuff goes "nope, not even once".
Functionally, this would be a death sentence to ABC. And that's the point - to kill the company with a penalty that matches the disgusting disgrace of the act they committed. A kind of penalty that can stand up to scrutiny through argument of fair dealing. But also - by cutting it loose and forcing it to stand on it's own merit, instead of soaking up tax payer dollars while lying and cheating the public.
"exclusive licenses for stations to broadcast at certain frequencies"
Broadcast rights aren't about who's allowed to talk. It's who's assigned what channels. We live in a digital age man. You can take away their broadcasting rights. They'll still keep posting to their yourube account 😂
Your a silly Billy. Maybe know what your talking about first
One should never confuse the ABC with a News. Outlet.
A noose outlet?
I read your post too fast and I have a touch of dyslexia.
"....never confuse the ABC with a NEW OWLET...." 🦉🦉🦉
Not like sky. #satire
Actually said by Sky News fans!!!!!
@@davidarter6271 stick with sky instead. Cue mocking laughter.
Defund the ABC
Why they get less views than a RUclips reactor 4 billionaires own all of mainstream media George Sorros owns 15% of Foxnews news if your getting your news from just mainstream media your clueless.
Yep. We got the same BS here in Canada with the CBC.
you defund it by not watching it
@@KS-tl8tc Not really. They're getting their taxpayer funding regardless of ratings.
@@KS-tl8tc : Not many watch the ABC anymore but the funding keeps coming from government.
HR should sue ABC for slander and defamation to oblivion.
ABC should lose their broadcasting license
And the people who worked on this and the ones who approved it should be banned from that field of work.
Help vote Trump into office and they probably will
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@scottarivett496 this video is about the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, not ABC in the United States. Trump has nothing to do with this.
@@scottarivett496 hilarious confused American.
Yup, time for ABC to become private subscription only, either UK BBC TV license style or Netflix via internet only style. ABC completely irredeemable in its current form.
Not only is ABC reprehensible, but the fact that the Australian military apparatus isn't standing with their man is even worse! Complete betrayal.
Doesnt this make ABC a state sponsored propaganda institution?
Australian government is even more eaten up with leftist trash than the US.
Shocking!! Disgraceful 😢 Can’t believe the news on any level anymore!!
And the Department of Defence can't figure out why recruitment and retention are so poor.
$400,000 ? Should have been millions. And there should be a HUGE settlement to compensate him for this.
Our soldies need more to help them get over being so demeaned by these a holes
problem is the tax payer picks up the bill, not ita or abc ceo's
@@BillRen-nl5mx shouldnt even be there to start with
Abc pays if they lose not the tax payer ,go for 400,million like the boy cnn stitched up for supposedly attacking native Indians.
Trump got 85 million dollar verdict against him for sexual misconduct with a cadaver he never met. She/it doesn't remember what year it took place.💩
Criminal charges for abc NOW!
It is not a fucking error. They need to be sued and held accountable.
agreed
Sued! What do you smoke? Held accountable for a sound effect........
@@ashleyshipp8340 No, you complete douche bag. Held accountable for intentionally trying to frame someone for a WAR CRIME. What is wrong with your brain?
Tell me you're a moron without telling me you're a moron.
@@fester2306 Find a mirror and work it out.
The reputation of the ABC and the honesty of their Investigation Unit is totally trashed.
They've been trash for a decade or more now.
@@Lwydius Since the mid 1970s.
Please help spread the message; it's DISNEY that pushes this unholy trash around the world. Cancel your trip. Cancel your subscription to Disney. There are far better places to visit and watch.
You mean more trashed than it was originally?
It's not the first time. abc took a video of a Kentucky gun show and LIED, edited, and cropped the people in lawn chairs out of the video and aired it on national television and claimed it was the Kurds attacking Syria. It was all a fabricated lie and no one did anything about it.
It's absolutely bloody shameful that the ADF did not stand up for this veteran. They should've been taking the ABC to court, not Heston!
Apologize? No, he should sue them for this. Unbelievable!
Despicable! As an Afghanistan Combat Veteran this makes me sick! ABC will NEVER be on in my house again. We had a saying in Afghanistan; "Don't fear the enemy he can only take your life. Fear the press they can take your honor".... Looks like these operators followed the ROE in place as it was written.
I hear ya, brother. I hear ya!
Thank you for your service.
You're absolutely right!
Thank you for your service!!
I haven't watched the ABC for years. Many of their so called journalists are activists, so they lie and cheat to achieve their agenda. I prefer Sky News Australia.
Labor have to have an Enquiry about this. The ABC should be investigated.
Why is the ABC still with us....get rid of this disgusting lying establishment....why are we funding them still?
Disney owns them and funds them along with TONS of pharmaceutical ads all day and all night.
@@chaznaps5679 this is the Australian ABC paid for by Australian tax dollars
Ya'all liberal baby dweebs are funding ABC by watching Disney, or visiting Disney! Shut down Disney the Shill of full on lies and worse.
Money laundering.
@@kevinwall8893That's a bitter pill!
Heston Russell is a distinguished professional.
ABC needs to be cleaned out.
ABC needs to be privatised
@@TheLaughingMagpie No-one would buy it: the cost of redundancies would be astronomical!
@Democratiser yes like anderson $13 million, hand shake ! Disgusting and why??? I as a taxpayer did not approve this!
@@Democratiser he is a war criminal
@@Poorlineforeva I’ll take your comment as agreement that the ABC should be cleaned out.
ABC SHOULD BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE!
Department of defense should be ashamed AND held accountable for abandoning their troops
yes they are clearly pro Afgan enemy
They turned into a woke military, drag queens dances, dei hire to top generals, what do you expect. Recruitment will suffer until these kids are taught to love their country. The school system need a overhaul and stop making Marxist out of our kids. It’s a sad time to be an American right now. The elite billionaires behind these politicians need to be jailed. We need trump, that’s why they are doing everything in mainstream media and Hollywood to destroy trumps reputation. He is not part of their elite Washington corrupt lab. The wef wants to destroy America from within. That why they use the race card, wokeness, dei, and open borders. They want a new voter base of illegals to offset the American vote. They will never give up power.
whoever at ABC that edited that video and/or made the decision to do so should be criminally charged.
Oh Hell no ! watch them give him a promotion like Kamala and hide in the basement like FJB
It’s the same plsybook
Worked before .
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I should be crying over this but I’m getting so numb it’s scary
and done with a fat case of defamation
They LIED. Charges are warranted.
That's clearly purposely done and inexcusable. All involved should be fired, prosecuted and the entire company investigated.
should be jailed for this....
100%
They have done it before and got away with it. abc took a video of a Kentucky gun show and LIED, edited, and cropped the people in lawn chairs out of the video and aired it on national television and claimed it was the Kurds attacking Syria. It was all a fabricated lie and no one did anything about it.
Why isn’t the ABC being made accountable?
Totally unacceptable. Appollogy not enough.
Where are the Dept of Defence and the RSL - you bloody disgraceful cowards. To leave a serviceman to face this alone.
If anyone from the departments popped their head above the trenches to defend him, they would be targeted too. It's rule by fear. Western governments are no different than other regimes.
They did it intentionally!!! And the one responsible for it should go to JAIL!!!
Absolutely putrid. This is not reporting. It is outright lying.
It’s hard enough to stay alive in a combat zone, don’t need the additional pressure of trying to second-guess a news network trying to undermine everything you do there.
@@sirrathersplendid4825
September 2024.
Pretty much our entire Western World is a combat zone.
Sue their asses, all of them the DOD and ABC. I'm a veteran and we can't stand this. It's bad enough putting your life on the line, for some of us almost 20 years in Afghanistan, then to come home to this BS. Unacceptable!
And their 'reporting ' on Israel is beyond all reason
Defamation - a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions. Seems like Mr Russell has perfect grounds to sue.
Absolutely disturbing that this could happen to an Australian serviceman. Defund the ABC their as crooked as Albonese and his misfits.
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Take abc to court for altering the video. They need to be held accountable. Make them pay.
if you paid attention it was taken to court
@iamasmurf1122 unless Kim Williams meets with heston Russell! He is seeking legal advice for another legal case!
This happened in Australia. Will not happen in Australia.
you realise they are completely tax payer funded, so 'making them pay' simply means 'take more of our money'?!?
@@ThatGuy-ze5kkthe ABC choose how to spend it, it’s better in Mr Russel’s bank account than the ABC
The Australian ABC needs have all news broadcasts STOPPED or defund ABC altogether.
Misinformation and disinformation , and more. Defund them.
And Albo wants censor us!
And about 60% plus of the population will accept it as fact as they do with everything
Yes.... wonder what Albo will do with that misinformation. If nothing it will become a precedent for folks to use as a contest against Albo for any fine against them.
Albo, ABC is a criminal.
The ABC needs to be defunded immediately.
just stop watching them. that will defund them as advertisers won't pay without eyeballs to see their ads. then once nobody is watching , there is no reason for govt to fund it.
take away the justification.
The government doesn’t fund them. The government can’t defund them
@cathymarsh1782 that's correct, they are funded by the pharmaceutical companies that want to destroy us.
I believe the ABC plays a crucial role in rural areas particularly during disasters, however both the ABC and SBS have been variously either lying or misinforming the public for a number of years now for agendas they are running on issues. Unfortunately reporters and management for these media organisations think they have a right to do it. So for me it wouldn’t be a defunding but a complete cleaning out of management, producers and journalists. Start again, decide what its brief is and force them to it. A case like this where footage has been doctored should result in criminal prosecution.
ABC needs sued out of business.
It was not an error. The precise timing of the additional shots in the video, and Willasee's corresponding fake narrative in the voice-over, make the 'accidental" claim utterly implausible.
This reminds me of the way the media doctored the footage of the UK miners strike in 1984. They totally turned it round to show the miners attacking police, when it was the complete opposite. I was there and I saw it with the evidence of my own eyes. Disgraceful media coverage.
Heston Thank You for your service.
ABC should have had to pay that soldier 7 million dollars and the editor/editors and or staff…..stand trial for their actions.
ABC has $1.6billion net worth... $7mil is rookie numbers $70mil is acceptable lol
$400K?
Should be $400M
They have $1.6billion net worth so $700mil kinda makes sense.... They added 7th shot so I'd say $100mil per shot sounds fair 😂
Thank you for your service 🇦🇺
Thank you for your thank you. Thanks.
Why didn't the Australian Military leadership come to his defense?
Well done Heston for winning and holding them to account for their dishonest actions.
‘ERROR’?! Oh, I think there was no error. What a disgrace to misrepresent this soldier and his compatriots.
All the while serving their country
No mystery here. This is malicious
Take their broadcast license away immediately...liars they are.
That poor, poor man. That is disgraceful ABC!!!
I worked as a news video editor for a German public broadcaster (years ago, when journalistic ethos was still a thing), and I can say that in my experience, there is NO way they didn't watch the entire footage, and NO way they can blame "changing" the information of footage in this way on a mishap. There's at the very least three people involved who have to check the veracity of their edits.
Sue for FALSE ACCUSATIONS, Defamatory statements. Don't let them get away with their B.S.
He did sue for defamation and won with an award of only $390,000 as compensation. The deliberate falsification of video and story narrative was done to ensure this man was convicted of a crime. The crime was committed by the ABC and all involved with this.
If the ABC has tried to frame this Australian soldier, I am absolutely disgusted.
IF
That doesn't "just" happen. These are post production professionals. It's not even a question. 100% on purpose.
If the ABC presented this garbage in court, somebody needs to be charged.
Surly, a crime has been committed here!?
[don't call me Shirly] [lol] You are so right.
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Doesn’t this fall into the “Misinformation news” category that the government claims they’re stamping out?
Grounds for a defamation case perhaps, but this is international so a bit more complex.
@@Flight042 Then I believe this falls squarely into the following bracket that I wrote in a different reply. "Doesn’t this fall under the “Misinformation news” that the government wants to stop. Yet our own government funded channel broadcasted this lie".
The government want to stop Facebook and X and other platforms, from allowing false information to be spread on their platforms.
Surely this goes well past the threshold of "Misinformation" being spread on Social Media. The Gov't should remind themselves that the ABC did also place this story onto their "Social Media" accounts.
If the gov't wish to say that someone claiming that a (For example) politician used a publicly funded car to go shopping, and it wasn't true, they'd demand that story be removed because it's "Misinformation".
Yet they did nothing about their own gov't funded broadcaster placing this total lie online and run on air.
Absolute double standards.
Why does the AUSTRALIAN government allow this attack on its defence FORCE???
It's always an error when they get caught.
Sue them to hell and back. CNN, NBC, BBC and CBS are known to do this. This should be illegal…
Agree but unfortunately the taxpayer ends up paying for it
@@vernonhiggins3323what price can be put on truth and justice?
A breech of public trust
Don't forget the number one HATE channel MSNBC
Joe Rogan is suing CNN, for doctoring an interview he had.
Sue for millions. 400k? Rubbish. Their deception has ruined a man’s reputation and possibly his career. He needs to be awarded a few, tens of millions of dollars.
Disgraceful that they would do this to a veteran.
ABC should lose their broadcast license for broadcasting doctored faults video.
This is disgusting.
Does the MSM ever tell the truth?
Only when it doesn't matter or make a difference.
By accident, sometimes.
No
In stories with no consequences.
Not in over 40+ years! They even lied all throughout the Vietnam war misrepresenting what was actually going on
Absolutely shocking how we treat our soldiers. 🤯😡
That was no error. That was pure malice.
ABC is coming off like this is a mistake. No way, this is a purposeful editing of the video period!
WTF??? Why would you want to commit such a horrible act of fraud to defame someone
rabid leftards
It’s a good question. Why would they do this? What is their agenda?
@@magpiegirl3783 virtue signalling. to impress their labour masters
The Veil has been completely and utterly lifted.
Because we are being manipulated and gas lit by globalist sold out politicians and the ABC is part of their propaganda machine. We are being controlled by totalitarian tyrants that have no patriotism.
Thank you Andrew keep up the investigation!!!
Surely those that altered the video have to be charged with something???
Falsifying evidence.
@@bernicecanty721 I believe that's for court trials. This is defamation & possibly going against their mission of public news broadcast - fabricating news shouldn't be allowed for a publicly funded news channel.
So a soldier signs up to serve his country, then goes to active combat and puts his life on the line and they make up stories about him and try to ruin his life? Wow I think the only thing worse than this is harming children, this is beyond disgusting!
State broadcasters in most of the west are completely compromised by foreign intelligence. Constantly trying to walk us into war with Russia then turning around and arguing against funding the military, constantly trying to attack our own soldiers and make criminals of them. CBC, ABC, BBC, all of them need to GO and preferably every other mainstream news outlet, "state" or not.
Disgusting of them to try and degrade a soldier!
Those Responsible at the ABC should be charged with High Treason.
Sue them into bankruptcy.
@@SaltyBob355 The ABC would be insolvent if the Commonwealth government didn’t hand over $1bn each year for them to mercilessly and unapologetically wage war on moderate/ mainstream and conservative figures and institutions.
I understand where you’re coming from, but you can’t sue them into bankruptcy since our bloody taxpayers dollars go into funding the ABC. They should be shut down and the individuals who doctored the footage should be sued into bankruptcy.
Unbelievable
The ABC needs to be accountable for this vile, dishonest reporting. Great sympathy to Heston Russell and his men for the suffering this must have brought to them and their families and admiration for Heston Russell's courage in fighting for the truth..
Yes my sentiments exactly
Major Heston Russell, the Australian DOD should sue the ABC.
The DOD had evidence that would have exonerated him in the first instance that they failed to provide. He was hung out to dry by his superiors and received little, if any, support.
@@larstorders9695 What a crisis !! Major Russell should get a good lawyer !
This is not the first time ABC has doctored videos. They need to have held accountable
Heston you are a hero on and off the battle field. Thank you for your service. 🇦🇺
If a normal person did this they would be in jail.
I smiled at your adjective "normal". The conclusion is that those who work at the ABC and took part in this debacle are not "normal". I concur!
@@kerriferguson2023 Disney
God bless Major Russell, I pray the truth comes out and CBS is required to explain how and why they changed the information.
ABC NOT CBS
This is HUGE! Thank-you Sky News Australia!
I can't believe the ADF didn't defend him
Agree..shameful that they didn't have his back😢
Yes it is putrid.
The top brass are bunch of shiny pants desk jockeys!
All western nations militaries are anti White globalist. Stop serving those who hate you.
I see Australia has no more luck with their ABC than we do with ours in the USA.
It’s a disgrace really sad to do this to our fighting veterans, this should go even higher. Remember it’s our money ABC MORE MONEY WASTED 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
Respect to Heston Russell. Thank you for your service.
It’s not justice unless unethical journalists are jailed.
The person responsible and their political motives are never revealed and are always able to hide in the organisation with immunity.
This is why young people will not enlist in the military 😢😢😢
This and insane woke/gender politics
Also the DEI lol nothing like getting commanded around by some incapable minority fool, who surpassed you based on no merit at all.
@@miltonfarm not because someone might shoot at them?
@@Poorlineforeva Or because they don't want to be part of an invasion of a 3rd world country?
Thank you
And at the ABC………..comments are turned off.
Yeah the weak pricks.
The usual, it's like cnn and msnbc comments section 😮,,mostly troll farms /burner accounts and ROBOTS 🤖
10% of ABC’s annual revenue should go to the soldier. That’s how you make them stop doing this rubbish. Their overall revenue by the way, not their profits.
And 10% to wounded servicemen charities.
Please help spread the message; it's DISNEY that pushes this unholy trash around the world. Cancel your trip. Cancel your subscription to Disney. There are far better places to visit and watch.
@@BudaKhan420 the ABC is a not for profit org. Try and keep up.
They will just get a 10% increase in funding.
Wow!
I am so sorry!
And no consequences for anyone at the Australian Bashing Corporation