Quite so!

We are now used to our scary ABC with its daily pushing of its pet causes: "man-made" global warming, campaigning for all asylum seekers to be let stay, demonising of Trump etc. In the face of a public broadcaster with scarcely concealed championing of left-wing causes, our Government does not have the balls to force the ABC to present a diversity of viewpoints.

The only consolation is that ABC Classic FM (by its nature) is largely free of political comment

ABC no more biased than other media organisations, but they should not surive on high levels of government funding.

There is nothing new to be said about the ABC. None of the governments we keep electing simply because there is nothing else available will ever have the guts to cut it loose from taxpayer funding. Our only defence from the outdated organisation is to ignore it.

ABC no more biased than others.... Hmmm that means they are in breach of their own taxpayer funded charter and should have their funding removed for breach of contract.

They are the national broadcaster, not any other commercial business. BIG Difference their Chris!

Yes, that is why they should rely much more on their own funding.

While i do believe the ABC should get some assistance as the public broadcaster, i have long thought that its funding should be reduced as it was biased.

I have an upcoming ABC piece on OLO, assuming it gets published.

Here is a piece i did for IPA 2016.

https://ipa.org.au/ipa-review-articles/sell-the-abc

Bird's fur, horse feathers and bah humbug! The ABC tells we are one are all in this together and is a source of unlike sky etc, a source of accurate and unlike the Author and his Sky etc, doesn't seek to marginalise or politicise a pandemic!!

Furthermore, His sky etc., could be a force that unites us and promotes bipartisan pragmatism/cooperative capitalism and the cleanest, safest cheapest energy in the world as the only serious way out! Instead, like moronic wind-up robots unable to comprehend the outcomes, seek as always to divide and conquer!

Because, like Pavlov's dogs, that's how they and I suspect, the Author is programmed?

I get that they don't like the ABC and their usual unbiased factual reporting and fact-checking! Hence this claptrap, [shoot yourself in the foot,] crap!
Alan B.

BTW, i prefer the ABC for most of my news and current Affairs.

This really does strike me as quite a petulant piece chiding Aunty for not complying with the author's ideology.

It seems the author may not have grown up with the ABC unlike the rest of us so may not appreciate that the organisation has had a role, especially through programs like 4 Corners, of creating news and Australians have been generally very appreciative of that voice.

That there are sustained attacks on our national broadcaster is no surprise as one of the strongest influencers on government policy is the Murdoch press empire.

Mr Essery is just another in the long line of people who are keeping up the barrage of misinformation and toxicity directed at our Aunty for having the temerity to highlight the very real concerns over things like climate change. We are extremely fortunate in this country to have a mostly independent organisation like the ABC with a charter of balance and professionalism. Let's hope it survives yet another assault on that independence.

This is the alternative.

http://youtu.be/hWLjYJ4BzvI

Yep several US junkets for Sarah to find lying democrats and others in order to back up the narrative of Russian collusion and then billed as the biggest story of the century. Now that crooked Obama and his mates have been exposed as corrupt we hear nothing. To think that my money is given to the abc to push their anti western lies and deceit is really disgusting. At least these days they don't even try to hide their lying narratives and gender politics. They really are a disgrace as shown again by Norman Swan's hopeless failures during Covid.

Steeleredux is at it again !
Ratbag attacks on another writer as in ...'It seems the author may not have grown up with the ABC unlike the rest of us so may not appreciate that the organisation has had a role, especially through programs like 4 Corners, of creating news and Australians have been generally very appreciative of that voice'.
Well Steeleee , Comrade , I grew up with the ABC , was a Argonaut and so on , BUT ,it was very very different , well respected , balanced Organisation in those days .
Your version of their ABC didn't exist then, so ,one can only assume that your memory is poor or is it just biased ?

Dear Aspley,

Of course it does still exist depite brutal funding cuts and a board stacked with rightwing misfits.

The fact that a sizable chunk of Australians have drunk the right wing coolaid doesn't mean the ABC's voice is any less legitimate.

You claim; "Your version of their ABC didn't exist then, so ,one can only assume that your memory is poor or is it just biased?"

What an ignorant statement. The ABC's Four Corners was a strident critic of the war in Vietnam, and also of South African Apartheid even when it wasn't government policy to do so.

had any Indigenous women crapping on whities lately on the abc? This virtue signalling mob are really quite disgusting. Certainly would not want your kids being brainwashed by Marxist rubbish.

Dear runner,

I understand why you would be so aggrieved by the ABC as they highlighted widespread abuse of Australian children including so many indigenous kids in care by members of your faith.

They moved past the veil of silence society had placed over the abuse and exposed those wrong doings ultimately leading to Royal Commission.

The Church has suffered a huge drop in respect as a result and I know this would be sticking in your craw.

Well let's hope people like you do not succeed in diminishing the effectiveness and independence of the ABC so it can keep doing the excellent work it does.

Four Corners in generally a top rate show. That is why it rates well in current affairs terms.

other good shows ABC and SBS, Foreign Correspondent, Dateline, Insight.

ABC radio also has some good shows spread throughout the week.

Aspley... you have cracked a mystery for me... I had assumed Steelrednuts and atebay et al are thinking beings,.... then I thought they must be trolls/bots... but they are in fact just simple narrow minded racists... They hate Essery's comments because he came from the UK...

Now their abuse makes so much sense... if he was female, colored, of transgender's tendency and an immigrant from anywhere other than the UK he would be OK...

Shame is these knit wits don't realize he comes from Belfast, the city that they probably gave money to in those hip bars that allowed IRA supporters to "fund the cause' to kill innocents and the British troops and police who tried to hold the piece..

What plonkers they are..

Oh Steelie I am surprised with your moral base that you even call kiddie fixing wrong.

A very well researched, written and clear summation of the unconscionable fare being presented to the Australian public. Unconscionable? Because it is repeatedly in breach of the ‘charter’ under which it was established. Privatisation (user pays) is the only rational corrective action I can think of at this point in time.

The fact remains: only 30% of Australians use the ABC, but all Australians have to pay for it. That cannot be regarded as fair.

An extremely researched article.

So why do Australians continually have to fund the ABC? With our taxpayers dollars?

It's a "left wing"/ "Greenies" view on everything.

Try turning into Sky News on Fox - where you will get - yes, the left and right view of every argument/policy/decision.

It's most educational - unlike the current programs on ABC which we- as taxpayers - are paying for.

Where are you Ita?- you promised much, but gave us nothing.

As far as I'm concerned, thank God for "... aggressive 'gotcha' interrogations..." by ABC journalists. If our politicians weren't such hypocrites and liars there would be no need for 'gotcha interrogations'. Luckily, some ABC journalists do their jobs and expose these lies and/or double standards.

This whole rant is simply an IPA bullying stooge upset because the ABC won't toe the ideological line as the IPA have declared it should be. Go watch Andrew and Peta and Alan etc. if that's your idea of 'balance'.

This article really must have hit the open wounds of "Their Scary ABC" luvies... and poured salt on them.

The abuse and slinging of names and ill-founded accusations about authors and comment posters is always the last resort of bad losers and those who can't face facts and must life within their government funded safe space bubbles.

Have another double skimmed latte with cinnamon topping and some avo toast Aries54 and have a good watch of The Insiders for a 'balanced view of your world'.

//The abuse and slinging of names and ill-founded accusations about authors and comment posters is always the last resort of bad losers and those who can't face facts and must life within their government funded safe space bubbles.//

Or as we call them for short, 'Tories'.

Interesting term. "Torie" is a name that can be used for a girl or a boy and according to the names dictionary Torie Name Meaning
The meaning of Torie is “Conqueror; victorious”".

Compliment accepted,thanks very much, Toni!