AUSTRALIA
The Guardian
April 14, 2020
By Margaret Simons
The polarising case of Cardinal Pell raises questions about media responsibility, holding power to account, and the notion of ‘trial by media’
This week I rang the ABC investigative journalist Sarah Ferguson to ask what she thought of the attacks on Revelation, her television series about sex abuse in the Catholic church.
“Have there been some attacks?” she replied, deadpan.
There certainly have – particularly over the final episode, which detailed allegations against George Pell, which by happenstance screened just days before the high court unanimously found in his favour and threw out his conviction on sex abuse charges.
That final episode is not available now. Ferguson says it is being updated and should be restored to the ABC’s on-demand viewing platform, iView, later this week.
Will there be any changes caused by fear of defamation following Pell’s successful high court appeal?
“We went with material we had complete confidence in,” she said.
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