Hi Spindoc,

Firstly you accuse me of chasing unicorns
and now you add all sorts of other qualities to me.
And all because I did not reply to you in the way
that you wanted me to. Perhaps you should have written
what you wanted me to say - and I could have just agreed
with it.

Instead,
I provided you with my opinion in answer to the title
of your thread, "The ABC - Keep, Scrap or Change?"
And I made it quite clear as to why I felt the ABC
was worthy of support. To me it was a simple question
and answer. I didn't want to go into any sort of
deep analysis simply because I felt
that the reasons for supporting a public broadcaster
such as the ABC were fairly obvious.

Anyhow - I don't have anything further to add to
the opinion I've already expressed on this issue - and if
that's going to make you think any the less of me. Well,
so be it. Although I must admit that I shall be disappointed
because I find you to be quite an interesting poster.
And I do enjoy reading a great deal of what you write.

Before I go, I've just read in The Saturday Age, November 2,
2013, that the Governor-General, Quentin Bryce, who's
delivering this year's four-part Boyer Lecture on the
ABC, told Fairfax Media she wanted to draw together the
strands of what she had learned through her life.
She will be speaking in one of
the lectures on the central role storytelling
can play in driving change.

It seems that I'm not the only one who sees the value
of chasing unicorns.

http://www.smh.com.au/business/murdoch-wants-his-pound-of-flesh-20131105-2wzhs.html
The link speaks for its self.
And as I step out to put my honestly held view some will say I am biased.
Yet I think the evidence in my post history tells another story.
Few if any, and in truth not one, tell of the troubles in the other side of politics as a follower of that side.

Here, not just in my imagination is a truth that time will confirm, this man will get his reward and we as Australians will pay for it.
In fact past gifts from conservatives to them selves/past parliamentary members /and those who support them are every bit as dirty as the NSW FILTH.

Belly,

The article is supposition. No evidence offered at all, just accusations and smear from Fairfax. The only reference offered by the SMH are JUNGLE DRUMS!

It does however remind me of some real truths; Keating offered to increase Conrad Black's holding in Fairfax from 15% to 30% in exchange fopr FAVOURABLE EDITORIAL CONTENT. That is fact, not rumour or hate. Sadly the negotiator for the Black camp was none other than Malcolm Turnbull.

Geoff Kelley

Do away with the ABC and you put vast areas of australia in silence and no information.

If all you've got is the ABC, you might as well be in silence & blackout. There is not a damn thing on there worth watching, or which doesn't insult your intelligence.

579, "Do away with the ABC and you put vast areas of australia in silence and no information"

That may have been the case decades ago. Technology has proceeded in leaps and bounds since then. It is solely time the ABC and SBS were required to put up a business case for the funding and preferential treatment they receive. If as you believe there are services that need to be provided, great, fund the public broadcaster to do that.

It is difficult to believe that there should be two major broadcasting corporations swinging from the public teat when one ought be sufficient.

No-one has put forward any reasons at all why the ABC can't perform the role of the SBS as well or vice versa. Why shouldn't the public broadcasters justify their existence when age pensioners for example are being required to sell their family home of a lifetime to fund their old age? There are elderly people with disabilities living out of Hiace delivery vans four paces long and one a a bit paces wide that they cannot even stand in, and chasing free camp spots while country councils move them on.