For those who believe in their hearts that ABC journalists are a wabble of wowdie sundry subversive socialist webels - here's today's breaking headline that ABC has struck a business deal with Red China!
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-04-17/an-abc27s-australia-network-signs-china-content-deal/5396664 :

"ABC's Australia Network signs China content deal"

The ABC's Australia Network has struck a deal for what it says will provide unprecedented opportunities for Australian content in China.

The agreement with the Shanghai Media Group is expected to be signed in Shanghai on May 4.

Under the deal, ABC International will establish an online portal in China through which a range of ABC and other Australian media content and services will be available to partner Chinese media organisations.

The ABC will have official approval to sell media content, enter international co-productions and generate sponsorship through a base in Shanghai."
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Coming next To Russia With Love From Uncle Vladi Pootin.

plantagenet,

Great promo but is any of that old news? See this report from Apr 2011. Go down to para headed, More Attractive Programs Across All Networks,

http://www.inaglobal.fr/en/television/article/shanghai-media-group-most-capitalistic-chinese-media-group

Maybe DFAT and others had a hand in it too.

However it is worth observing that if the ABC and SBS were private companies the CEO and board would be looking for economies at home to make the expansion.

Dear Klaas,

As “Central Coast Convener of the Friends of the ABC”, I trust that you have taken both the original article, your response and the subsequent comments back to the “Friends of the ABC” for review. How about a formal rebuttal from “friends of the ABC”? now that would be good.

Any feed back from them would be would be very much appreciated? Especially since based on your performance, they may now be looking for a new convener?

It is to be hoped that you shared with them the fact that you challenged the article on the ABC’s broken business model and then failed go anywhere near it. Why, It was your case that you failed to make and yet it was the primary thrust of your challenge?

The issues you need to discuss with your “friends” are that;

There are some on OLO that support retention of the ABC as it is.

There are many who have told you straight that if you wish to retain it, you can pay for it as there are many more important priorities for public funding.

That the ABC’s business model is not only broken, it is another example of bureaucratic ripping off of the public purse. (unless you can tell us different)

That the perspective of left leaning bias is confirmed by the fact that the progressive left minority wish to keep it as “their voice” which confirms its bias. QED?

The ABC has become just another element of the progressive left’s “self referential network”. Which now seems to include China? Those networks that do not “affirm” your bias are naturally discounted.

The 2.5% ED will destroy what is left of the ABC because they were arrogant enough to not see this coming, they were too busy ripping off the public purse.

Please don’t bother publishing the ABC charter again, we know what it is and all that has ever been asked is that the ABC complies with it.

Your deliberate missing the point, ducking and weaving or avoiding the issues will not sustain you on OLO.

Thanking U for picking up onthebeach

U win second highest Mao Tse Tung freedom speech gong in all of Yunnan.

ABC's involvement, as first alerted to OLO by moi, is in fact new angle.

http://www.inaglobal.fr/en/television/article/shanghai-media-group-most-capitalistic-chinese-media-group say:

"Shanghai Media Group: The Most Capitalistic Chinese Media Group.

In less than a decade, Shanghai Media Group has become a giant in all sectors of the audiovisual and media at national level, with a dynamic sprawling of global development of the Chinese group.

Shanghai Media Group is the second audio-visual media operator in China. A dependent of the Shanghai government, it was awarded in 2002 a monopoly over radio and television broadcasting in China’s largest megalopolis."

Thanking u again

Peking Pete

Hi Plantagenet,

Sometimes I have wonder at the intellect of progressives. Whilst spruiking the achievements of “our” ABC in penetrating China with our Australia network, one has to wonder at the receptiveness of a communist, totalitarian regime to accept the prognostications of our National broadcaster?

Is this something to be proud of, or is it confirmation that the ABC is so much closer aligned to totalitarian ideology that to our own?

I’m not a great fan of the Tudors but they did eradicate the Plantagenet’s. Are you some sort of leftover or throwback from that ancient century?

What is it about “ the pursuit of that which is contrary to self interest” that you missed?

Over to you Peking Pete!

G'day spindoc

Well the ladies don't call me Edward "really Longshank" Plantagenet I for nothin mate.*

But seriously I resent your imputation that it were the Tudors who done me Royal lineage in. I'll sick Sir Peter and Dame St Quentin on your dynasty cob.

As a fellow servant of the Almighty Dollar the benefits of feeding n selling tripe to our Confucian Comrades doesn't botha me a bit. Murdoch, Google and many other revered commercial entities have made many $$$ doing the same - so why not Aunty ABC? Granted Aunty is an intelligent, sensitive centrist (like moi) but it just shows she has a head for business, like Tony wants, rather than being an ideological floozy of China.

As the article's author says providing China with well balanced News and Shaun Micallef's Mad As Hell can only help Chinese democracy grow - like the thousand flowers bloomin before the crackdown. The Chinese public, bless-em, are already being permitted to question the Party's spindoctoring a little bit.

So there you have it spin. Our land is safe for mere noble Knights and Dames to rule over youse, but not me.

And I, for my part, will hang onto it as always.

Your obedient master.

Planta Pete

(* for me overt CV see http://www.britroyals.com/kings.asp?id=edward1 )