An excerpt: The conviction of George Pell demonstrates the power to skew justice of the emotional claptrap surrounding the serious crime of child abuse. Complaints by persons with identity protection appearing decades after supposed events are accepted at face value; the guilt of the accused is presumed, largely as the result of media-induced disgust. The jury’s decision is reduced to a distorted balance of probabilities, with motivation never examined (...)
Here it is worthwhile pausing to consider the extent to which the national broadcaster has departed from previous policies that ensured personal distance from contentious events. There was a time when no ABC journalist was permitted to write a book, or even an article for another publication. It was considered a potential conflict of interest and compromising to the principle of impartiality.

Not today. The ABC, in frantic pursuit of relevance, presents itself as the doyen of investigative journalism, even to the extent of compromising its independence by co-operating with politically-aligned newspaper interests. Hence Cardinal author Louise Milligan can pretend to be both a respected reporter and the activist author of a book claiming to chronicle the downward spiral of George Pell, protector of paedophiles and potential abuser of children.