What a devestating critique of the ABC,I never realised the organisation's sinister agenda and incompetence. From now on I'll use the commercial media as a source of accurate information,particularly the Murdoch press,that exemplar of unbiased and accurate news.

This article should have been saved for April 1st.

The words of a Fox anchor, "alarming contradictions", seems so appropriate to our ABCLP. (smug is another good word)

The incident with David Marr reading a newspaper while Andrew Bolt was talking should have had him and the host of the Insiders show both carpeted, but of course that would be out of character wouldn't it.

That was a gross display of arrogance and contempt and was totally unprofessional, but par for the National Broadcaster.

Regardless of what you think of Bolt, if you invite him onto the show, you should show him respect and insist others do too, after all it is a public broadcaster isn't it?

ABC Local Radio is still pretty good, but it's telly is crap, thanks goodness for the BBC, nothing the ABC makes locally is any good, both drama and Science docos. their news is down to dunny these days as well. It seems like if it didn't happen out side their CBD office then they are a bit lost. The main perk for an ABC juno is to get an overseas posting, so you can do some cheap travel will churning out crap shallow reports. oh well look on the bright side with three abc channels now we can have repeats galore. The ABC used to do a few things very well, now they do a lot of things badly.

What a rubbish article.
Aunty never puts out any garbage. It has all been sanitized beforehand.
Ever since the licenses for listeners/viewers was scrapped they have been beholden to the Government for funding.
Sir Humphrey Appleby rules apply.
Their Code of Conduct is never broken.
Heads they are right; tails I am wrong.

Yes Ben specializes in crap.

Why does Online Opinion continue to feature him. He never has anything intelligent to say about anything.

Anyone would think that the ABC was the only network in Australia. It regularly gets a caning for its bias on this site and elsewhere, but nary a word of criticism for the commercial networks: possibly because their main purpose is to insult everyone with even more insulting advertisements than entertainment and to Americanise our language and attitudes.

Sure, the ABC is staffed by left-wing twits. Sure it has a left wing bias. So why watch or listen to the bloody thing just so that you can criticise it! Although the ABC, particularly television, is an arm of socialist politics in Australia – even when the socialists are not in power as they are now – watching it is not compulsory.

The only thing good about ABC television, in my opinion, is the British drama they put on; when they are not in recess as they are now, slavishly following the tradition in Australia that nobody watches much TV for a couple of months before and after Christmas. At the moment, the only things I watch on ABC are ‘Taggart’ and ‘Lilies’. The rest of the programmes are not fit even for Channel 10.

If I want to be ‘informed’ I rely on News Radio, which goes for reporting more than the biased comment that the other arms of the ABC indulge in. It is also bolstered by the BBC and US and German content. You can actually hear interesting things you won’t hear elsewhere, without being continually hectored by ABC employees with their predictable views. Like Monica Attard, for instance, trying to get NSW’s new premier to agree that she should hate being called ‘mother of two’ when the men don’t have to put up with that ‘indignity’. Much to Attard’s chagrin, the premier didn’t give a damn.

And we shouldn’t give a damn about the ABC. Take your few cents worth if you feel it is there, and ignore it altogether if you don’t.