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Word of warning Auntie - your slip is showing : Comments

By Graham Young, published 10/8/2010

The ABC is supposed to be unbiased, but her Internet trail shows she has a lean

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In Nov 2009 http://www.911oz.com/ was doing one of their many protests outsided the ABC Studios in Ultimo Sydney.Not only will they not air the new evidnece for the need to a new investigation into 911,they also want to censor their staff from making up their own minds.

Their staff in the past would often come enquire and take literature and CD's.On this occasion one of their staff informed us that they were instructed not to take any information from us.

So if you want to keep your job at the ABC,tow the line and have their blinkered view of the world.
Posted by Arjay, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 6:58:39 AM
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So the ABC leans to the left - so what? Most of the main stream media -ie,News and Fairfax,leans to the right - so what?

Bias will always creep into the conversation.There is no way that can be prevented.It is up to the citizen to keep informed and use whatever wisdom they may be blessed with to form an opinion and the more varied the input the better.I believe that we still do live in some resemblance to a democracy.
Posted by Manorina, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 7:44:57 AM
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<< So the ABC leans to the left - so what? Most of the main stream media -ie,News and Fairfax,leans to the right - so what? >>

Yes Manorina, I would say that the mainstream media is very biased. But then they set the norm. So, if the ABC is different, it is biased compared to the norm!

I’m inclined to think that the ABC is not ‘biased’ enough. It needs to be considerably more strongly positioned to the ‘left’ (whatever the left actually is) in order to more significantly offset the bias of other mainstream media.

Whatever the case, ALL of our media are TERRIBLY biased towards philosophies, policies, politicians and public opinion that steers us clear of properly considering the really big issues of population policy, the achievement of a sustainable society and getting away from our utter dependency on oil – which are things that we are hearing next to nothing about in this election lead-up.

Or are these things just my biases shining through??

Of course, I would say that I hold the eminently sensible unbiased position and that everybody who sees it differently is biased!!

As Graham says;

<< … balance is a notoriously difficult thing to measure. >>
Posted by Ludwig, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 8:44:39 AM
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LOL This article was originally published in the Murdoch media,the propaganda department of the Coalition,or perhaps it's the other way round,it's difficult to distinguish one from the other.Brilliant satire.
Posted by mac, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 9:17:37 AM
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Graham, you write that 'concern about the arts and the environment normally denote left-wing allegiance,' What do you mean by 'left', and why?

In the 1960s 70s and 80s, to be left meant that you were a socialist. Small 'l' liberal views were considered to be moderately right wing. Equal opportunity was, for example, seen as a moderate right goal.

Since then, there has been a determined campaign in the United States to depict liberal ideas as radically left wing. The campaign has two functions--to demonise, and to try and re-define where the centre is, so that people who (absurdly) suppose that the middle of the road is the rational place to be will vote for the Republicans, and generally reject policies which threaten the power and affluence of the dominant classes. In Australia, there is a trend in the same direction.

So it matters.

And in passing, on my limited understanding of statistics, a correlation of .7 still leaves 51% of the variation unexplained.
Posted by ozbib, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 9:31:32 AM
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ha .."73% of those surveyed around the same time by Newspoll think climate change is "currently occurring"" - so 27% of ABC respondents to the poll don't think the climate is changing .. I suspect what's more likely is that they didn't understand the loaded question.

The ABC is very biased, you could give examples all day long - one I heard recently was when someone from the Liberal party made a comment about school funding and the head of the teachers union was allowed to rant for a full 9 minutes about it - even the compere eventually got embarrassed and tried to be reasonable - but it was way gone by then.

I go to the USA a lot and over there listen to NPR, National Public Radio, it's a little to the left occasionally, but tolerable and certainly not hostile to conservatives as the ABC here is - watch Kerry O'Brien any night and compare the way he deals with the ALP and then the Coalition - tell me that's "balanced" .. on reflection, it probably is to him, I just want to know where the fulcrum is.
Posted by rpg, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 9:32:54 AM
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