The sound and fury prompted by Bob Connolly’s Once My Mother speech points to deep frustrations in the wider independent community. How does this play inside SBS and the ABC? John Godfrey, currently SBS commissioning editor and Alan Erson, survivor of the ABC job, respond.
Unlike Phil Craig at the ABC, John Godfrey does not enjoy the cut and thrust of podium debate. It is fair to say that the particular case of Once My Mother occurred while Joe Skrzynski and Michael Ebeid returned SBS to Charter after the wobbly Top Gun years.