Opinion by Anthony Cox
I wrote before about the ABC’s bias and the real
cost of the ABC to the Australian community. Since then the Abbott
government has announced reasonable budget cuts but the ABC has sunk further
into its betrayal of its Charter and of the Australian community.
In a recent poll about the farcical China/US deal about
emissions the ABC’s The Drum initially showed this result:
12/11/2014: China and the US have struck a new deal to limit greenhouse gas emissions. Do you think Australia will need to adjust its climate change policies as a result?
No 55% Yes 44% Unsure 1%
15205 votes counted
Given the ABC’s Left/Green readership a remarkable result.
However shortly the result
was changed to this:
12/11/2014: China and the US have struck a new deal to limit greenhouse gas emissions. Do you think Australia will need to adjust its climate change policies as a result?
6001 votes counted
Yes 76% No 23% Unsure 1%
How could you trust an organisation which lies like that and
distorts public information?
You can’t. So when on page 6 of its report
the ABC gloats that 84% of the Australian people think it provides a valuable
service you cannot believe this.
The ABC workforce is sheltered from the reality of normal
commercial practice:
You would think that would make its workforce grateful and
more responsive to its Charter of balance but consider these:
Ben Pobjie
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Sean Abbott hits Phil Hughes in the head, continuing the tradition of Abbotts fucking up Australia
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Sean Abbott hits Phil Hughes in the head, continuing the tradition of Abbotts fucking up Australia
The ‘lady’ in the photograph is Whitney
Fitzsimmons host of the ABC’s Business
Today. Would you want to do business with her?
And of course Trioli’s infamous reaction to Barnaby Joyce:
Trioli was a supporter of Bin
Laden after 9/11.
Even old Quentin Dempster can’t help but get into the act:
he calls the ABC cuts “a piece of Tony
Abbott/Rupert Murdoch bastardry”.
The ABC is
outrageously biased, pro left, pro Green and ferociously anti-conservative. It
has NO conservative commentators. Yet Murdoch has many left wing writers
working for him:
Phillip Adams
Troy Bramston
Tory Shepherd
Susie O’Brien
Laurie Oakes
David Penberthy
Anthony Sharwood
Jack the Insider
Joe Hildebrand
Malcolm Farr
Terry Sweetman
Paul Syvret
Dennis Atkins
Graham Richardson
Claire Harvey
Peter Brent
Errol Simper
Tristan Edis
Peter van Onselen (depending on the wind)
Paul Kelly and Alan Kohler
Bolt sums up the issue perfectly:
The answer of course is that the ABC has not been brought to
heel but allowed to continue on its path of betrayal by ALP governments which
it favours and also weak coalition governments.
In a mature democracy where anyone can start their own media
outlet it is a nonsense that a hugely expensive media outlet which is palpably
biased towards one section of the community should have its funding provided by
all the community.
That the ABC views the community with contempt is clearly
shown by the actions of Mark Scott, who has admitted he cannot control the ABC,
and his cuts to those sections of the ABC which may impact
most on the conservative section of the community.
Such contempt should not be rewarded by further funding.
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[Ed] Larry Pickering finds that the ABC is even-handed:
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