Hi qanda, no, I’m still hanging around like a bad smell. Thought this thread dropped off the list but its gone active again.

Read through the JH article you posted thanks. A bit disappointing though. It’s just a hissy fit between journo’s, not exactly a biting piece of analysis of anything, but it’s a start.

As discussed with you on another thread, (and I might add you still have not addressed that post), until and unless we see the ABC and other MSM cover the international news items in the list of news releases I provided, we can have little confidence in their News and Current Affairs, let alone have dissemination and informed opinion. If it’s not reported, we can’t discuss it.

Jonathon Holmes is such a classic isn’t he? When the ABC chairman shouts “duck” he sticks his head over the bunker and shouts “quack”! Boom, lock, stock and two smoking barrels! I love it.

CJM, it’s not a question of annoyance at the ABC, its disappointment at the ABC’s lost credibility, and once lost its hard to recover it. I lived and worked in 29 countries in a period of 35 years. Wherever I was, the only link with real and balanced news and current affairs was the ABC and the BBC. The rest was local political propaganda dross. Generations came to trust these public broadcasters, even in America we would drive 250 miles north to the Canadian border on a Saturday to listen to the BBC international news. (OK, I admit, we did pick up a carton or two of half decent Canadian beer). In the Middle East, Asia, South America and the Soviet Union, our preoccupation became finding access to these highly respected news broadcasts (even locals in foreign countries were as thirsty as us).

Colleagues tell me, and I recently solicited comment, that these broadcasters are now widely regarded as just as narrow, sectarian, minority and PC oriented as local media. What an absolute tragedy.

If current generations have no such reference points, then their defense of the ABC is probably understandable.

Watching the 7:30 report I was a little taken aback by the term “Government's failed insulation scheme” used by Kerry O'Brien.

While I think there were problems with the roll out most of it succeeded in doing what it set out to do, stimulated the economy, delivered savings on green house gas emissions and saved people money on energy bills well into the future. I have greater issues with Julia Gillard's roll out than I do with this one. Others obviously disagree.

However I'm not sure it is the place of my ABC, in a program such as the 7:30 report, to be engaged in this sort of labelling from the interviewer using the word 'failure' as a given. It could have and should have come directly from the opposition.

That being said I would have no problem with Mr O'Brien putting a question such as “Do you believe the public has the right to view the insulation roll out as a failure?”

Is this an example of ABC group think?