{"id":38286,"date":"2025-12-23T00:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T00:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/abc-defends-laura-tingle-and-sarah-ferguson-amid-unfounded-criticism-of-bondi-shooting-coverage\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T00:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T00:00:07","slug":"abc-defends-laura-tingle-and-sarah-ferguson-amid-unfounded-criticism-of-bondi-shooting-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/abc-defends-laura-tingle-and-sarah-ferguson-amid-unfounded-criticism-of-bondi-shooting-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"ABC defends Laura Tingle and Sarah Ferguson amid \u2018unfounded\u2019 criticism of Bondi shooting coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hugh Marks calls questions about media\u2019s role in wake of mass tragedy \u2018understandable\u2019 but says reviews must be \u2018factual and accurate\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/video\/2025\/dec\/17\/ten-minutes-of-terror-how-the-bondi-mass-shooting-unfolded-in-real-time-video\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ten minutes of terror: how the Bondi mass shooting unfolded in real time \u2013 video<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2025\/dec\/23\/bondi-terror-attacks-response-nsw-law-changes-gun-law-reform-protest-restrictions-chris-minns-anthony-albanese-labr-sussan-ley-coalition-ntwnfb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Follow the latest live updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The ABC\u2019s managing director has defended two of the network\u2019s best-known journalists, Laura Tingle and Sarah Ferguson, after criticism of their coverage of the Bondi terror attack.<\/p>\n<p>Hugh Marks released a statement on Monday night in which he described the shooting that killed 15 people and injured dozens more on the first night of Hanukah as \u201ca shocking and traumatic event for Australia and especially for the Jewish community\u201d and extended to the Jewish community \u201cour deepest sympathy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2025\/dec\/23\/laura-tingle-sarah-ferguson-abc-defends-bondi-shooting-coverage-criticism-ntwnfb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hugh Marks calls questions about media\u2019s role in wake of mass tragedy \u2018understandable\u2019 but says reviews must be \u2018factual and accurate\u2019 Ten minutes of terror: how the Bondi mass shooting unfolded in real time \u2013 video Follow the latest live updates The ABC\u2019s managing director has defended two of the network\u2019s best-known journalists, Laura Tingle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fast-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 18:24:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}