See what happens, Craig, when you devote your listening time to the ABC. You fail to realise that they are a limited, distorted purveyor of fringe broadcasting.
I listen to them on the basis that it is important to know the enemy. You listen because you are a lefty, and believe that fringe broadcasting is “normal”, just as you believe that same sex "marriage" is "normal".

Jonathon you and gerard henderson should get together and share your delusional paranoia about the ABC. your "concerns" are matched equally if not more by "concerns" about right wing bias at the ABC expressed by left wing delusional paranoids. I recommend a good lie down.

Leo, my primary viewing/listening of the ABC is to the news service. I also watch occasional informational and entertainment programs.

When I was on the road a lot I was a regular listener to ABC local radio, especially the Steve Austin, Spencer Howson and Kelly Higgins-Devine programs, but I rarely listen to them otherwise.

Most of my news coverage comes from my regular perusal of websites, such as the various News.com sites, the NYT, LAT, BBC, Daily Mail, Guardian and the Fairfax sites to name a very small subset. The ABC website is generally not on my regular menu of choices, since it is not usually as up to date as some of the others.

Perhaps your perception of me as a "lefty" is more due to the fact that you are an "idiot" than anything to do with reality?

And yes, I do support marriage equality, on both humanitarian and strictly ethical grounds. You shouldn't feel left out though, my ethical position also extends to the view that idiots should be allowed to marry, if they can find someone silly enough to marry them. Shame about the kids though...

Shalmaneser, Jonathan isn't paranoid, he's simply aware that his own extreme views won't withstand a moderate and well-considered evaluation, so he'd like to limit the public to only seeing a strictly polarised set of ideas. In other words, he's simply intellectually lazy, as well as lacking in the ethics department.

Dear ConservativeHippie,

Banging your head against the wall?

Well each to their own "poison."

Mine happens to be sugar.

Although as Ogden Nash wrote:

"Candy is dandy,
But liquor is quicker!"

BTW: Regarding your reference to bricks and mortar...
I fully understand your reluctance in not wanting
to invest. I've heard tell that bricks and mortar
are not the investment they once were.

Dear runner,

You need to lose the fear of being wrong.

It's part of your persona.

Accept it.

We have - ages ago.

Craig.
Lefties are identifiable by their reaction to valid argument, to which they, of course, have no rational or valid response to offer.

Their fall-back position is criticism and abuse of the proponent of the valid assertion. They make baseless assertions that the persons having opinions that they do not like, are idiots, or should be comedians.

It simply underlines that they have no valid basis for their position, and shows, beyond doubt, that they are a lefty.

Try reading this thread up to here. How much of it is content-free pissing contests informed by a phoney “left” vs “right” dog whistle contest? How much is based on fact and argument about issues, like whether the ABC should be privatised and how this does or doesn’t relate to the issue of each individual choosing where to direct his or her taxes? (One correspondent did challenge this notion). A question asked so far back I forget who asked it was whether the whining Moslem Zaky Mallah’s views were leftist or rightist. It was a challenging question for all the dog whistlers, and didn’t bring a response from any dog of them. Even Mallah’s campaign against human garbage joining ISIS was merely part of a pissing contest between ISIS and Al Qa’eda which is his current chosen enemy of humanity.

To pin my own flag to the mast, good on the ABC for manoeuvring this creep into exposing an Islamic perspective. There are the usual claims this Islamic perspective is anathema to “average Moslems”. Maybe at least one “average Moslem” will say so publicly and say why. Maybe an “average Moslem” in the Q&A audience may have wished to challenge Mallah’s rubbish. Listen hard to the sound of silence