I'm warming to my idea of doing a poll on ABC RN programs. I checked the results on our Sound Quality/Quiet Space poll and posted the results at http://whatthepeoplewant.net/polls-blog/october-2011/should-abc-rn-retire-quiet-space-and-sound-quality.html. So far a decisive thumbs-down, but a small sample, so anyone interested might like to vote at http://polling.nationalforum.com.au/index.php?sid=56763&lang=en.

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=12755#220253

ZandR, great comment, the spin in their answer to your complaint is typical of the bureaucrookracy in ALL situations. My interpretation of "public demand" is whatever their "programmer's" close friends & family think.

your correct, they need to get out more.

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=12755#220271

Kareninaus, methinks your correct, Media Watch anyone?

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=12755#220277

GrahamY, i have thought from day 1 that you could try 1 question per day, or week on the front page of OLO. As http://ninemsn.com.au/ & http://au.yahoo.com/ do daily, i good simple, topical question carefully framed with a yes or no answer.

Or with multiple choice answers for more complicated issues. this could also include a link back to more complex surveys on the subject @ http://www.whatthepeoplewant.net/.

EG, i have had many D&M's on the subject of "boat people" with a wide variety of people from a wide variety of social circles & almost everybody in academia, journalism, bureaucrookracy & politics is OFF the mark, as far as "what 2/3's of the people REALLY want".

IMHO 2/3's of the voters from both sides of politics DONT want ANY processing, either ONshore or OFFshore.

They WANT them sent back ASAP, as in "first available Qantas seat home".

They WANT "unaccompanied minors" returned to their mothers ASAP, as in "first available Qantas seat home".

They have worked out that the purpose of mass immigration from third world countries is to create poverty in both nations, IE Australia & wherever thay came from.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjzfGChGlE google all of these in the series & check it out for yourself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muw22wTePqQ&feature=like-suggest&list=UL this one is even better it includes a "playlist" which flows from one to the next.

Leadership, over 80% of voters want Krudd back over Juliar Dillhard, on repeated online polls for months on end, same numbers, it is IMPORTANT to us.

Here is my suggestion for a carbon tax question.

Q, Do you want 100% of ALL Australians paying a carbon tax/price to 1% of the world's filthy, stinking, super rich, international banksters/socialists?

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=12755#220278

mayman, i have noticed this bias/weakening on the GAYBC for decades.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8630135369495797236# enjoy.

Formersnag,

"...filthy, stinking, super rich, international banksters/socialists."

You're slipping....you forgot the feMANazis : )

Well said ZandR.
I am an avid ABC watcher and listener, and have been for many years. I have, with frustrated concern, noted the sideways slip towards commercial TV and radio type programming and content. Classic FM and 7.30 are especially egregious examples of this trend. The blatant plugging of Ms Gemmell's 'long awaited' (not by me) sequel to her previous book - two plugs for the price of one - gave cause for deep concern. Classic FM's drive and breakfast shows are little differnt from corresponding commercial radio whilst Margret Throsby's daily two hour gabfest consists largely of book plugs and show promotion.
I wonder if the younger breed of ABC journos are fully appreciative of the role that the ABC is chartered to play in Australian life and the inestimable value of a non commercial independent media that broadcasts reliable analysis and information based on facts. The defense that they are responding to audience demands does not cut it with me - we do not yet let the lunatics run the asylum. Nonsensical weight loss diets, and women's alleged sexual requirements, are the province of commercial media whose main job is to cater to the air-head sector of the community. Give us the old ABC.

F/S

...Socialism is to Political correctness what Capitalism is to poverty:
One controls the mind the other the money = Labor unto Liberal. Great choices I don't think!

The percentage of my TV watching time applied to the ABC has fallen from around 90% to less than 9%.

Nothing would get me to bother with 7.30, & recently I have found myself even turning off Quantum. When the ABC can't be trusted to do a science program without it becoming almost totally left propaganda, there is every reason to chuck it on the scrap heap full time, rather than let it climb onto the junk heap, using our taxes to do so.