February is a special time for senior executives of government broadcasters and the National Broadband Network, when they front the Senate Estimates Committee for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy. Mark Scott was first up on a tetchy day.
ABC supremo Mark Scott had a particularly galling time, from the moment he didn’t make any opening remarks and the pettifoggers on the Senate bench fell on him to justify minute and minutely strange readings of single lines from news broadcasts.