Klaas says:

"I just posted the Section 6 of the ABC Act 1983, exactly 350 words. If some of you believe that the ABC "violates" the Act you should demonstrate that. Just making ideological claims is not evidence of course."

http://catallaxyfiles.com/2014/04/20/guest-post-natural-instinct-bias-on-abc-insiders-do-the-numbers-lie/

You can analyse bias in another non-subjective way which is how the ABC treats particular issues. Take AGW for instance; can anyone with any shred of reasonableness say the ABC is not a completely biased supporter of AGW and all its attendant absurdities such as renewable energy? Here’s an example, the Bondi Beach report, which demonstrates the one-eyed bias of the ABC about AGW:

http://theclimatescepticsparty.blogspot.com.au/2013/10/can-australia-afford-abc.html

Every time one of those AGW junket organisations such as the Climate Council or the Climate Commission or The Climate Institute opens its mouth does not the ABC salivate in a jejune manner?

Same with the illegals, the problems confronting aboriginality and growing problems to do with Islam. The ABC always takes a hard left or Green editorial coverage of these issues, censoring alternative viewpoints. In this respect the ABC is in clear breach of:

(i) broadcasting programs that contribute to a sense of national identity and inform and entertain, and reflect the cultural diversity of, the Australian community.

Pete,

It is a bit hard to sustain the line: <<the two main parties, go out of their way to stoke the fears and greed of some constituent supporters... kicking ... refugees...>>

Since the ALP for the majority of the last ten years has been singing poor, poor, poor asylum seekers --it was only very late in the piece they woke up and changed their tune --ditto Fraser, who never woke up.

BESIDES --I had a drink with those Liberal Party tacticians you talk about and they were laughing about how they, quote: "sold some guy called plantagenet a whole lot of baloney about their election strategy...and he believed it"

@imajulia

How political parties manipulate targeted groups of captive voters.

For example divorced, bitter, middle aged men, who believe they are free and libertarian, but who are in fact Conservative, deferential and almost a cert to vote Liberal, Liberal Democrats, Katter's Personal Party or Palmer's Personal Party PUP.

Foxy, please note that on this thread I have commented on specific matters. Real life experience of being out there in the SW Pacific Ocean has allowed me to see the situation first hand. Eyes open, no blinkers, no hypothesis.

I am not whinging about the ABC. In fact I have views about the ABC perhaps like some of yours.

If I just stated my relevant opinion without relating the issues I would say this.

I think those at the ABC who are gagging news about ocean fish devastation and protein deficiency malnutrition impacting seafood dependent islanders, are cruel.

Most people seem to think if something is not in the news it is not happening.

Consequently solutions to SW Pacific islander malnutrition are not happening. And the situation is worsening, there is increasing hardship and poverty and NCD including malnutrition related diabetes.

It's cruel to say and do nothing and let it continue.
Similar happened when Jews were being killed by Hitler's cronies. I think the media knew but kept it quiet.

I assure you Foxy, the situation will become known to you one day. It is inevitable.

It seems that many here really have no clue about the culture of the ABC.
My son started work there and the first day he was there a friend told
him if he was a liberal voter, and wanted a career there, he must not
tell anyone that he is a liberal voter. He told me that the only ones
in the closet at the ABC are liberal voters.

It is the ABC branch of the Labour Party with a Greens sub branch.

Anyone who thinks differently simply cannot see past the end of their nose.
I have heard separately that anyone who is strongly a liberal
supporter can find that they subject to not too subtle harassment.

The most significant aspect of this entire topic is the response of the trendy lefties to what is a clear moral question.

Trendies have a compulsive psychological need to think that they are morally and intellectually superior to the suburban unwashed. With every subject imaginable, they strut around moralising and lecturing their inferiors with finger wagging moral outrage.

Yet here is a clear moral issue, and it is the trendies themselves who are using every excuse to ignore the moral issue. This is exactly the same charge they hysterically level at everyone else who ever violates their own moral principles for any reason.

The principle involved here, is that the ABC was set up by a Federal government under the charter that it must give unbiased news reportage. The trendies know that. Foxy knows that. Plantagenet knows that. The author of this article knows that.

Yet here they are, ducking and weaving, and tossing around every smelly red herring possible in order to avoid focussing on a clear moral issue which they know they are on the wrong side of. Here we normal people can get an insight into the hypocrisy of the trendy/lefty mindset. All their lecturing and moral self preening is an act. When their self interest is threatened, they abandon all pretence of moral virtue and engage in total selfishness.

The trendies problem, is that those newspapers like the Sydney SMH and the Melbourne Age are in serious financial trouble. They are in trouble because the majority of people do not like being lectured and told what moral reprobates they are all the time. So, they are not buying these newspapers. The ABC is the only voice that the trendies have left. Therefore, they compromise their principles to prevent the total collapse of every media outlet that supports their extraordinary socialist worldview.

To lose the ABC would be a catastrophe. Plantagenet and Foxy would be left walking the streets trying to sell copies of the Green Left Weekly to an uninterested public. That is the nightmare they wake up screaming to every morning.