The news is good:
Journalist Stan Grant has quit the ABC to become Asia Pacific director of the Constructive Institute, to be based at Monash University in Melbourne.
Grant, a Wiradjuri man and three-time Walkley Award winner, said the institute – whose headquarters are at Aarhus University in Denmark – was designed to “improve the quality of public discourse, to acknowledge that we don’t do conflict well, and to make media part of the solution rather than the problem”.
Thank god Stan’s gone. Having to critique his thin-sliced China analysis was driving me nuts. His notion that China was the “indispensable nation” was one the most dispensible ideas I can recall.
He never did tell us what freedoms we should give up to make peace with it.
In his case, it was the ABC, which he can hardly be blamed for. It has completely lost its way.
All the best, mate!
