David you mean to say that you are not biased towards the dysfunctional British royal family. Not biased towards the liberals and howard? How you can waffle on so after you made such a twit of yourself with you dealings with jones. Of course you would be completely biased towards him also but your saving grace is that you are not left wing but right wing. Right wing people and royalists have views the others are left wing propagandists. I am getting sick and tired of those who constantly parrot howard's view that the ABC is to the left of stalin. I suppose you read the liberal times also known as the australian, no right wing bias there eh? Yes 'petal' we know 'media watch' was hard on you.I wonder if this nasty, nasty horrible little man at media watch is the cause of your spleen towards the ABC. So you/we often hear the views of both sides of politics on the ABC, then the greens or democrats say the same a labour so the ABC is unbalanced. Should all parties agree and then the news will be balanced - get a life mate. By the way this is the same ABC that howard has the board stacked with his cronies is it - no left wing bias here eh petal. regards, numbat

Mr Flint, your argument comes across as the foot-stamping of a six-year-old who was teased in the playground. "Miss, he said nasty things about me miss" is not a good look on a supposedly mature person.

It is entirely consistent, perhaps, with the behaviour of someone who can write to Alan Jones "Alan you have an extraordinary ability of capturing and enunciating the opinion of the majority on so many issues", while at the time holding the position of Chairman of the ABA. Not so much that you wrote these words, of course, but that you failed to understand their inappropriateness from one in the position you held.

What you may not realise is that all across the land there are people who are capable of thinking for themselves, and recognizing the difference between Alan Jones and Mike Carlton, Janet Albrechtsen and Philip Adams and so on. We tend to see their work in the light of what they profess themselves to be as people, and make the appropriate allowances. Unfortunately, the arguments you present here, such as they are, paint you in a particularly unappealing light.

WELL SAID Pericles regards, numbat

Both Numbat & Pericles miss the point. Your personal view of Flint or Howard are irrelevant. The ABC is supposed to be "our" ABC but even an idiot can see it's biased toward the ideology of the left. That doesn't lend itself to balanced reporting for all Australians. I can just imagine the indignant shrieks if the ABC suddenly turned into the Australian version of Fox News.

The arrogant and obvious ideological bias of the ABC does not represent fair and accurate reporting for ALL Australians. Fair and accurate seems to be something that the left have never assigned a high priority.

If the ABC ever make a swing to the right I'm sure we could rely on Numbat & Pericles to fight the good fight.

David, I read half of your article and it made no sense.

I have been listening to/watching "our" ABC for over 40 years ( I am an original baby boomer) and I must have been so infected by the left wing bias I don't even recognise it. I would appreciate it if those who do see the bias could let me and others know where we should go - TV, radio, press etc - to get completely fair and balanced, totally unbiased news and current affairs. Who are the commentators we should look to counter balance the ABC. We know David admires Alan Jones - should he be our role model for unbiased presentation?

Don't just knock the ABC. Tell us the alternative so we can judge for ourselves where the critics sit on the bias spectrum.