Dear mhaze,

You write; "That the ABC is hopelessly biased toward the left viewpoint both as regards Australian, US and indeed global politics is hardly disputable."

What rubbish. Name another organisation which has undergone so many inquiries into bias, or even have protections against bias in its charter. There are none.

The ABC time and time again gets pretty well clean bills of health yet Murdoch drones like yourself keep banging on about bias where there is none.

The ABC went hard after the Greens in a 4 corners expose which was brutal and far nastier than anything directed at the Liberal/National party They also dug through the entrails of the Rudd/Gillard split to a demonstrably far greater degree than what occurred after the Abbott/Turnbull or Turnbull/Morrison leadership changes.

Further name a single ex Labour MP who has a radio show an hour long twice weekly on the national broadcaster.

You are a miserable lot of whinging snowflakes who are trying to bully this institution out of existence because it doesn't follow lock step with your toxic ideology.

Sick of the bloody lot of you I'm afraid. Grow up.

Probably Tony Abbott's biggest failure as PM was not to defund this marxist/feminist empire. They strongly backed his backstabbing as they fawned over the regressive Turnbull.

Only the likes of our SR can state bald faced lies as if they are global truth.

He makes an utter fool of himself with this behavior, as even most lefties will admit the ABC is their mouthpiece.

Stating black is white SR is a sure way to lose any credibility you ever had.

Onya SR. I`m with you.
Bunch of right wing whingers.

SR,

"Name another organisation which has undergone so many inquiries into bias..."

Come on, SR, even you aren't this clueless. The others don't have enquiries into bias because they aren't required to be unbiased. They are required to be profitable.
I've never said the commercial media isn't biased. Of course they are. Anyone who believes otherwise is just plain thick. Not as thick as someone who thinks the ABC isn't biased, mind you, but up there.

But because the ABC gets lavishly funded by the taxpayer they are supposed to be unbiased. Hence the inquiries.

The trouble is the inquiries are rubbish. Take your example from above. Appoint someone who started their career on the public broadcaster, ended it on another public broadcaster, and spent the rest of the career exposing lefty beliefs. Hook him up with yet another person who sups at the public teat and then ask them to be unbiased. The results were written before the ink was dry on the appointments. Surely you can't believe this was a valid inquiry.

"Further name a single ex Labour MP who has a radio show an hour long twice weekly on the national broadcaster."

Huh? I file that under whatthehellishetalkingabout.

But while you try to work that out, perhaps you could name one or two ABC TV presenters who are from the right.

The place is overrun with left wing bias and even the occasional right wing voice ultimately gets suppressed - eg Gerard Henderson.

There have been some surveys (not fool proof ones, mind you) that show up to 40% of ABC staff favour the Greens. So what they consider unbiased is perhaps a little different to what the rest of the country thinks.

"Sick of the bloody lot of you I'm afraid. "

Yes I'm sure you'd feel much better if everyone would just agree with you. But then we'd all be wrong.

Hey SteeleRedux,
"although a member of one side committed murder"

Whats the difference between murder and manslaughter?

Answer: Intent.

I'm not convinced James Alex Fields Jr intended to kill Heather Heyer.
I do think both sides were just as bad as each other, both sides determined to get what they wanted.

What I don't understand is the lefts rampage to tear everything down at any cost.

The left: Let's tear this statue down.
The right: Lets just leave it there.

- Pretty obvious which side is causing the problems.
The side which cannot accept things the way they are and wants to take the fight to everything they oppose, their fragile undeveloped minds molded by their demented university professors.

The left probably saw Heather Heyer's death as a win for their cause.