Wendy's (Other) Wonderland -- Part IV

IT is not just nefarious climate deniers and Bunyips in the pay of Big Carbon who think that, as a journalist, Background Briefing's Wendy Carlisle makes a first-rate propagandist. The mouthpiece for the Department of Immigration and Citizenship, Sandi Logan, shares that opinion:

@SandiHLogan Sandi Logan

Don't know about that @wendycarlisle - it was never 4500; it's 4000 UNHCR assessed refugees over four years. Important to get/choose facts.

A sniffy Carlisle fires back:

@Wendycarlisle Wendy Carlisle

thanks for the tips on how to do journalism

...to which Logan responds:

@SandiHLogan Sandi Logan

You call it spin when you don't like what you @Wendycarlisle read; you patronise when you're wrong, & are corrected. Nice. Journalism 101?

Please, Sandi, you really must stop highlighting Carlisle's deficiencies. Poor Jonathan Holmes has enough already to ignore tonight.

UPDATE:  At Catallaxy, Judith Sloan writes of the ABC, a debate with Mark Scott (ABC supremo, ex-Fairfax chief Fred Hilmer's godson and --no nepotism there -- former Fairfax high-flier). Here is Sloan's summation of the ABC complaints process:

So here is the ABC’s complaints-handing rule-book (I know – I decided to road-test it a while back – some little clerk got back to me after nearly two months: COMPLAINT REJECTED.)

• Treat the complainant as dim-wit, using a patronizing tone;
• Refer obliquely to the matter raised but declare that all approaches to journalism are equally valid;
• Assure the complainant that the matter has been thoroughly investigated;
• Tell the complainant that management takes all complaints very seriously;
• Finally, quote the internet address of the Editorial Guidelines.

What Sloan is too nice to note: Scott is one more of those jumped-up pen pushers, albeit with delusions of grandeur and the public purse to indulge them.