"The ABC's senior management.... have unfailingly supported us however uncomfortable we sometimes make their lives and who've never once interfered in the choices we make." (Audio attached) So said Jonathan Holmes at the end of his last presentation of Media Watch on ABC TV on 1 July 13. I challenged him with the following email to mediawatch@your.abc.net.au. You might like to do the same.

Jonathan,

that's a barefaced lie for which you owe at least every Northern Territory Aboriginal person a most remorseful apology.

I'm talking about your refusal to pick up the proven expose of Lateline's false reporting of paedophiles rampant in the NT, which in its train has plunged Aboriginal people into worse-than-ever misery. http://tracker.org.au/2012/07/bad-aunty/. Even in 2009 when the CEO of the Australian Crime Commission, John Lawler, reported that his investigation had shown there were no organised paedophile rings operating in the NT, no formal apology was ever made to the Aboriginal men and their families who were brutally shamed by the false claims. How much difference it would have made, if you had had the guts to expose Lateline's grossly unethical, lying reporting.

The report knowingly picked up the posing of a Brough ministry official as a youth worker in a community claiming paedophilia was happening. One of many inaccuracies and distortions.

Several attempts were made to get the ABC to retract and for you to run the criticisam. You refused. Given your seemingly fearless attacks on other ABC issues, it has to be assumed in this case that "the ABC's senior management" leaned so heavily on you that you caved in.

The honourable thing for you to have done then would have been to quit Media Watch in a blaze of publicity.

From that time on I was skeptical of everything you did.

As a retired generally skeptical journo I still enjoyed the show very much.

Regards,

Diet Simon