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ABC Fact Check Unit loses its way in the Tasmanian wilderness : Comments

By Mark Poynter, published 3/4/2014

Downplaying the principal source of forestry knowledge and selective use of 'experts' fans perceptions of the ABC's Green-Left agenda.

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According to recent polling , only half the population ever watches or listens to the ABC.

Unlike its first 20 years when the ABC was a pioneering broadcaster, all the material it broadcasts nowadays is available from alternative sources. Consequently, there is no longer any justification for taxpayer funding of the ABC.

As proposed in the UK in respect of the BBC, future funding of the ABC should be by way of subscription from its watchers/listeners. This would result in the significant benefit of reducing the federal budget deficit by at least $1.2 billion per year.
Posted by Raycom, Saturday, 5 April 2014 9:46:34 AM
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*According to recent polling , only half the population ever watches or listens to the ABC.*

Which only goes to show that half the population is taken in by the propaganda spewed out by the privately owned commercial money producing machine that is operated by the "big end" of town for their own purposes.
The supposedly "freeview" that is trumpeted at us is a good example of what they can get away with.
Endless repeats of mainly US trash programs on multiple channels that are very liberally laced with commercials.
This is better than the ABC? I don't think so.
OK there is a sprinkling of a certain type of person who could loosely be called Malignant narcissus but they are more than made up for by quality people who are allowed to produce quality programs. A small price to pay.
Posted by Robert LePage, Saturday, 5 April 2014 10:20:02 AM
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Robert LePage,
Yours is the voice of elitism at the ABC. You think you are born with the discerning judgement to decide for the rest of us what is 'trash' and what is 'quality'. 

If that means you get to listen to your classical music, while the rest of us happily tune in to our populist, commercial drivel, then there's probably no great harm being done. The government can find a place in supporting what it feels is aspects of minority art and culture worth promoting. But there needs to be some sense that government money is being used following some democratic process.

The real problem is when you take this attitude of yours into the domains of politics, philosophy and religion. Then it's even more telling. I don't want the government telling me what I'm supposed to think. It's not their place to take my tax money, and use it as a baton to beat me around the head philosophically.

What this article highlights is the elitist attitude of those who think they know better than the rest of us, and are more able to decide which are 'facts' and which are the 'lies'.
Posted by Dan S de Merengue, Saturday, 5 April 2014 5:12:42 PM
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With regard to the misreporting of facts, what most ABC-listening believers of anthropogenic global warming fail to realise is that the ABC censors out all views that oppose its entrenched green-Left biased position on climate change. The ABC goes out of its way to conceal the fact that there is no empirical scientific evidence to substantiate the hypothesis that increasing anthropogenic CO2 emissions cause dangerous global warming.

Yet, sadly, Minister Turnbull naively believes that he can rely on the ABC Board to restore balanced reporting by the ABC.
Posted by Raycom, Saturday, 5 April 2014 5:57:41 PM
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Yes Raycom, but then Minister Turnbull also naively believes in the global warming fraud, so is probably secretly in step with the ABC.

We do need to get the ABC of the taxpayers neck, but we also need to get rid of Turnbull.
Posted by Hasbeen, Saturday, 5 April 2014 6:54:05 PM
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Dan S de Merengue:

If the cap fits?
Posted by Robert LePage, Sunday, 6 April 2014 12:09:31 PM
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