ABC’s lack of ambition on coronation coverage left Stan Grant to shoulder outsized burden

Stan Grant. Indigenous journalists do not, and cannot, have the same relationship to the Australian media as white journalists. Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian

Important cultural moments are complicated and usually about many things at once.

The controversy surrounding ABC journalist Stan Grant is about the shortcomings of the media, about the role of News Corporation in our national conversation, about the nature and duties of the ABC and, of course, about racism.