Notice how at no stage have any of the supporters of the ABC given any reason why they shouldn't fund it themselves?

And notice the fast and loose attitude towards truth? On the one hand we get this claim that they're the only ones who know what it is - the author's argument. But when their flaky theories meet with a total categorical logical refutation - as Yebiga's just did in the thread where he has just failed to defend protectionism - in his own terms! http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=16018&page=0
- then we get this squarking of "ideology!". In other words, there's no such thing as truth or logic or reality - there's only class struggle (Wonder which failed economic theorist they got that from?)

So either there's no such thing as truth, and the supporters of the ABC have no reason for sucking the blood of the productive class to pay for their entertainment gazing at their own reflection.

Or they maintain they perceive absolute truth directly without the intermediation of theory, which is such offensive bullsh!t as warrants their immediate abolition.

Of course the truth is, that they couldn't give a sh!t about the truth. If they did, haluell would have actually read the information he derides, and given some kind of rational argument. Instead we get shallow puerile turdy ad hom snivelling.

The idea that the world's not going to be inhabitable "for our grandchildren" because of capitalism's sin in using carbon dioxide - dishonestly called 'climate change' since ALL of their models proved FLATLY INCORRECT, and the claim that the solution is government control over every transaction that involves carbon - i.e. everything - is just another classic example of their repulsive totalitarian tendencies.

These people aren't interested in the truth, or science, or logic simple as that. All they're interested in is having a public platform for spewing out their nauseating propaganda non-stop.

Every time they open their mouths they only prove more urgently that reform would be futile, and that the ABC should be abolished immediately.

Let me assure you my cohenite
The ABC is hardly intellectual, it just on accassion strays into something genuinely real and engaging. If the ABC truly reflected my taste, you would switch off the commercial stations with total disgust, except for the sports coverage.

You don't need to be an intellectual snob to find the nightly orchestration of tears just a little hard to take. Commercial TV is not so much low brow as it is arrested development. Its target audience is teenage girls.

Now to the economic question, had successive governments not permitted the concentration of media ownership and rather promoted media diversity, the ABC would be unnecessary. But as it is economic rationalism together with no restriction on illegal oligopolies has led us to this impasse.

The example here in the media is replicated in our fascist supermarkets, banks, the wealth sector and miners. There similar budding oligopolies across all of our service sectors too.

And then there is the real question, which must not be discussed for fear of some nuclear catastrophe: what was the good of privatising the CBA, Telstra, utilities? What did it achieve but to enrich a few friends

A lot of you people should stick to reading NEWS LTD the Völkischer Beobachter of OZ,maybe Der Sturmer would suit some of you better.
Commerical TV is an insult to anyone with a brain and Commercial radio is suitable for people with an intelligence level of about 8.
If you don't like the ABC just think you can get Fox News and Sky every day if you want to pay the phone hacking,police corrupter and all round liar in UK the American Murdoch.
Hope The English Jail him and his son,I would rather keep the ABC at least they are honest unlike Murdoch press and its reporters to whom knowing what to write is more important than the Truth as it is, not how Murdoch/Mitchell see it.

Shut it down. Fire them all.

Raze the buildings.

Sell the real estate.

Over the last 20 years the ABC have showed their only response to complaints of lack of balance is to get worse, and insult the intelligence of their critics. A few token balance people on the board have been able to do nothing.

The nitwit that wote this article demonstrates only the smug entitlement of the parasite. Dont bother to privatise them; the many good people and services such as BBC bonnet dramas, RN and rural radio are betrayed by the stars and managers, and locked into their course by the staff.

It is too late for reform.

I do not want to hear anything about Alexander Downer's suck hole posting on the AB C, it will be too much right wing for me, after all, it is not left news, so lets not damage the reputation of the ABC by having right wing muck broadcast, keep the ABC left, left, and left.

Broadcasting should have credibility in itself!
If it cant offer fair news then that should be abolished!