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ABC mission creep : Comments

By Ari Sharp, published 23/6/2006

The ABC is trying to be an all-singing, all-dancing something-for-everyone media conglomerate.

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I think Ari overstates the case. While I personally don't enjoy The Deep End, the ABC Charter obliges the ABC to both make programs of broad appeal (that is, popular programs) as well as specialist material for minority audiences.

By and large the ABC does this pretty well - particularly in radio where the number of different networks enables each network to have its own style.

Enemies of the ABC frequently complain that only ten or fifteen percent of people use the ABC. This is of course a lie - something like 75% of Australians use the ABC each week - but it is true that better educated people use the ABC more often.

If the ABC were ever to be in a position where only 15% of the population tuned in, it would not only be breaching its own Charter, but it would also become very vulnerable.

Darce Cassidy
Posted by Darce, Monday, 26 June 2006 1:43:02 PM
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The ABC is passed its use by date.
When I listen to my country ABC station, & get a Brisbane interview, with some "B" grade entertainer, re their Brisbane concert, tonight, its passed its use by date.
When I get a talk back session with a Brisbane councilor, on the same country station, its passed its use by date.
When that Brisbane presenter then extols the virtues of my "LOCAL" ABC, its passed its use by date.
When, at 2 O'clock in the morning, with rain pouring down, I turn on the ABC, to check for flooding, & get advice that there's a storm in Sydney, its passed its use by date.
In fact, if you don,t live with in 30 kilometers of one of 4 capital cities, its passed its use by date, & I resent having to pay for such a useless artifact.
Posted by Hasbeen, Monday, 26 June 2006 3:42:04 PM
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The new CEO says that the ABC is all about entertainment. I'd like some more entertainment, some more of the existing entertainment really, to enjoy. Being outside the 'footprint' of ABC classic FM most of the time is just not acceptable in this high tech world. The existing ABC TV tower nearby could easily carry the transponder. Forget the wild and wooly, let's colour in the existing first.
Posted by barry r, Monday, 26 June 2006 6:55:34 PM
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Redneck, I must take issue with your evaluation of Windschuttle as the man who "exposed the airbrushing of Australian colonial history". I read the WHOLE of Windschuttle's "The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, Volume One: Van Diemen's Land 1803-1847" and I found it the most miserable collection of footnote-sniping it has ever been my misfortune to peruse. I'd have been failed in my history MA if I'd submitted this kind of pedantry as an essay. Call me a starry-eyed idealist if you like, but my view is that the study of history is about doing credible reearch, not insulting other historians.

Windschuttle can dish it out, but he's pretty thin-skinned when it comes to receiving it: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/act/ACTSC/2002/64.html - Windschuttle got upset when Catharine Lumby questioned his credentials.

But I guess if you think Albrechtsen is a "fine journalist" then the Windbag looks probably looks like a "fine historian". You're certainly entitled to your opinion, even if you are wrong.
Posted by Johnj, Monday, 26 June 2006 10:30:39 PM
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Johnj
My heart bleeds for you. You spent all those years (rote) learning the orthodox black-armband view of history, under the suzerainty of Henry Reynolds & clique.
And now the Lib’s go and undermine it by appointing your mentors’ archrival Windschuttle to the ABC board. If he starts shouting -‘the emperor has no clothes’ – your standing will be ruined –how insensitive of them!

(This one appointment has the potential to have a greater adverse impact on trendy history academics career prospects & status that the whole of Howard’s industrial legislation)

Still if the mere news of Windschuttle’s appointment puts the wind-up a few leftists, as it seems to have done, it can’t be too bad a move.

And as for errors & misrepresentations – You don’t need to look any further than Reynolds, Rose & MacIntyre etc . No one can beat (or repair) the damage they & their camp (in all senses of the word) followers have done to Aust. history & psyche.
Posted by Horus, Friday, 30 June 2006 5:46:29 AM
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I support the ABC more than ever today. After the winds of Larry and the rains brought on by Monica, I say "thank-gads" for the ABC.

In Cape York many of us were isolated and cut-off. We spoke to eachother through ABC F.N.Qld Radio AND we had access to the resources of Radio National - to keep us up-dated and safe. The ABC team were remarkable... we were All for a few hard weeks...(24/7)... totally one community.

I also feel the 730 Report and the interviews and stance of Lateline is unlike any other reporting programme. These programmes help me remain alert - critical of the need to see more questions, more debate.... to believe we can be a progressive Australia.

If only more of our leader's took notice of these arguements and less time two-up-ping-ing eachothers ocka abuse.

We do get more than enough rope from the ABC!

I need the ABC - Thank-you.

http://www.miacat.com
Posted by miacat, Saturday, 1 July 2006 1:33:42 AM
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