//the ABC was set up to provide quality, unbiased reportage//

It was set up to do a lot more than that, LEGO. The ABC is not just a news service:

https://www.comlaw.gov.au/Details/C2014C00721/Html/Text#_Toc402340439

But you're happy to throw the baby out with the bathwater because you don't like the bias you perceive in some of their current affairs shows. Couldn't you just not watch those shows, instead obliterating the entire ABC because you dislike a small fraction of their services?

All public agencies including the largely redundant ABC should be required to put forward a business case for continuation of public funding.

While on the subject of redundancy and wastage of the money compulsorily extracted from taxpayers, either the SBS is a huge, expensive indulgence to ethnic lobbyists or it ought takeover the ABC.

It does seem as though successive governments turn a blind eye to the taxpayers' money gobbled up by the ABC, money that could be put to better use developing infrastructure in the North of Queensland, for example. That way everyone benefits.

LEGO,

Did you even watch the show? The panel weren't all left wing; they had a diverse range of opinions (as they usually do). Indeed it included a government MP, whose response to the question was a big part of the problem.

The questioner has NOT publically declared previously that two female journalists should be gang raped on live TV. He said they should be gangbanged; that's consensual. His assumption that they'd consent to it is still repugnant, but not threatening.

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jayb,

"If I stood up on a plane in the air & said, ' I’ve got a bomb!' & later said, 'just kidding.' Do you think the Judge would give me a light Sentence?"

Yes. Compared to the sentence you'd get if you actually had a bomb, your sentence would be light. Though still significant due to the disruption it would cause.

"I disagree. It showed to the Australian people just what your average moslem is like & that’s a good thing."

Why do you assume him to be average? I'd expect "your average moslem" to disown this pig!

agree Aidan In order to defeat this risible rationale, we have to know what it is and just who in the community hold or are persuaded by these views.I think MR JONES need to get the chop, given his interviewing style simply had to elicit just this response. Alan Jones or Andrew Bolt would have likely hit the edit button before the hate speech went to air.

Those who like to get their news stories from patently biased communicators have other choices. An ABC boycott would be remedied at the next election and affect the outcome? the ABC is funded by the taxpayer and is therefore only beholden to them not the government of the day, whoever they are!AS clever as Tony Jones is, we can be sure he didn't put words in this young madman's mouth!
Rhrosty.

Aidan: Why do you assume him to be average? I'd expect "your average moslem" to disown this pig!

Yes, a bit like your average High Profile Protestant Preacher when one gets caught banging some bloke in the local Motel after he's run off with the Churches Funds. "Oh he never was a Christian." ;-)

I'm sorry to say, he really is your average real moslem & there-in lies the problem for Australia in the future. Don't forget he admits to supporting Al-Nusa, an Al-Qaida off shoot. Now that does make him a terrorist. "Out, foul spot"

I wonder where the usual moslem advocates are. We haven't seen one of them pop their head up in this conversation. Come on steelie & friends. Where are you. Holidaying in the Middle East, I guess.

Oh come on JayB, how can you say that mindless moron was a average Muslim? Do you know how ALL Muslims think?
That's like saying you are representative of all Australian men, when you are far from it.....