Interesting link, Rhian. But did you look at the Greens voters? Arguably much smarter than the Liberal voters.

The idea that the Left-leaning among us tend to be more intelligent is a bit more than a passing musing: http://tinyurl.com/kavpghl

With the exception of a couple of the Greens voters, I think the comparison you've linked to more supports the idea that voting is influenced by a person's employment.

AJ
yes, I agree about occupations
I don't actually think Labor voters are uneducated, but nor do I accept the idea that ABC journos are left-wing because they're brighter than the rest of us.

Hi Jai,

It looks like the government is not going to go head to head with the ABC and SBS ideologically. The terms of reference however, seem to leave little doubt the ABC will soon cease to exist as we know it?

They are set to go through the ABC like the proverbial “dose of salts”.

ABC AND SBS EFFICIENCY STUDY: TERMS OF REFERENCE

http://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2014/01/mark-scott-managing-director-of-the-abc-published-this-statement-yesterday.html

Whatever the electoral system, it should ensure the equal representation of states and not fail to neglect regional Australia.

I don't think this sentence says what you meant it to say.

'Fortunately the intellectual capacity of ABC journalists is well above that of the average citizen. '

Foyle sums up the attitude of the 'progressives'. So intellectual that they swallowed the gw fantasy hook line and sinker, so intellectual that they bad mouth the Australian navy before checking any facts, so intellectual that it is full of anti Israel bigots, so intellectual that they ignore truth consistently in favour of political correctness, so intellectual that they ignore the diseases involved in the lifestyles they promote, so intellectual that they fail to see how small minded and bigoted that their worldview has kept them in. Intellectual? No just predictable dogmas.

Hi again Jai,

Thanks for that link. An interesting read indeed.

No, I don’t think the sample size of ABC staff is the only problem with that survey, Jai. One major problem would seem that of the 89.5% who responded to the survey, “less than two-thirds of the journalists ... revealed their voting intention.”

If, as anecdotal evidence suggests, the ABC News and Current Affairs teams have had strong recruitment over the last three years of committed pro-Coalition activists, then naturally those recruits might be reluctant to respond.

So already it's not possible to draw any conclusions, is it?

The other major problem is the reality that many of those 'journalists' contacted work for Murdoch’s News Corp, which has been shown to employ staff who routinely lie – in court under oath, in their written articles, to Parliamentary inquiries, to the Press Council and elsewhere, as required.

[There is another piece here at OLO today with further evidence of this.]

Out of interest, Jai, can you point to a recent example of an ABC News or Current Affairs report which you believe showed inappropriate bias towards the Greens or Labor?

There would seem several available of bias towards the Coalition.

Thanks, Jai. Good to chat.

Cheers,

Alan A