We should take this in the spirit it is intended,
which is as a piece of satire. I chose to take this
with a laugh. We love Peppa Pig and watch it regularly
because my grandchildren love it. They also love
Bananas in Pyjamas, and The Wiggles. I wonder what
Mr Akerman would make of those?

Interesting though, a new Liberal government and
attacks on the ABC re-surface. BTW - talking about
"bias," Mr Akerman appears regularly on the ABC's
"Insiders." So much for that theory.

It is as a Red Herring to divert attention away from long-standing and persistent allegations about ABC trendy green/left bias. It serves a clique it is said. Many agree that the ABC has changed and not for the better.

<The Australian political leader who expressed most fury at the lack of balance on the public broadcaster was not John Howard. It was Labor's Bob Hawke, who railed against the ABC's reporting of the first Gulf War to drive Saddam Hussein's forces out of Kuwait. Hawke's devastating critique of the ABC in 1991 is documented in Ken Inglis's Whose ABC?. Paul Keating shared Hawke's view at the time that the public broadcaster criticised Labor from the Left. Just as Howard came to the view that the ABC criticised the Coalition from the Left. The Greens don't complain about the ABC. And Palmer seldom fails to declare that ABC presenter Tony Jones is the finest journalist in living memory.
..
What are the ABC's processes for selecting candidates for key positions? How did it occur that, in recent years, the public broadcaster has appointed a bevy of left-of-centre identities. Including Russell Skelton (fact-checking unit), Waleed Aly and Julian Morrow (Radio National Drive), Jonathan Green (Radio National Sunday Extra), Linda Mottram (702), Chip Rolley (The Drum online) and Paul Barry (Media Watch). Were any other candidates seriously considered for such positions and who comprised the selection committee in each case?

Who allowed the ABC, as Spigelman has acknowledged, to focus on such inner-city fashions as gay marriage rather than on such community concerns as electricity prices? How did this occur on Scott's watch?

The ABC chairman told the National Press Club that much of the critique of the "allegedly systematic lack of impartiality" at the ABC turns on just 1 per cent of its programs. This suggests that small cliques are acting in their own interests rather than those of their colleagues and taxpayers. This is a job for management - not external auditors>

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/columnists/mark-scott-must-step-up-and-rid-abc-of-its-green-hue/story-fnkqo7i5-1226782717544#

tell/,me..steve
[if you calm]...ie right/minded thinking

what do the other characters symbolize?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppa_Pig

also..tosave me looking it all..up
what does this mean[in..clear s[peak?]
<<Do we ever see pigs wearing tsitsit and yarmulke's putting on tephillin? We do not.>>

is that anything to do with..her red dress
http://www.google.com.au/images?q=peppa+pig+costume&oe=utf-8&

[ie red shoes..means royalty
but..if pigs wear shoes..hers appear black]..
or else its just dirt..or thrown..mud..[pigs love throwing muc

its intresting IF..the issue..is so important..
why..wasnt mentioned...at the first post
[not..as a second/thought..after
grayham approved it]

the sideswipe at the abc..was that bonus..
or to add some other anger..or just flesh/out a nuthin topic

<<..Now what does that tell us about bias at the ABC?>>

but thats got its own..thread..

are you still angry..but wiser?
or more angry..about..nuthings..or is it just a pig hating bestial/fixation..its interesting..on..a boring day..[before the metal storm..to reflect

do we attract..the very..things
upon which..our golem/masters fears..fixate

http://www.infowars.com/syrias-war-the-next-phase/

http://www.infowars.com/u-s-moves-to-support-al-qaeda-lite-in-syria/

http://www.infowars.com/stefan-molyneux-discusses-our-current-place-in-human-history/

http://uruknet.com/?p=m103316&hd=&size=1&l=e

http://xrepublic.tv/node/6567

http://static.infowars.com/bindnfocom/2013/12/scan.jpg

israel..opens flood gates
to..flood gaza

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=656950

http://news.antiwar.com/2013/12/13/us-open-to-backing-syrias-islamist-rebels/

http://rt.com/news/us-suspends-aid-syria-060/
http://www.activistpost.com/2013/12/fsa-commander-forced-to-flee-attacked.html

http://www.redressonline.com/2013/12/the-islamists-hijacking-of-arab-hope/
http://www.activistpost.com/2013/12/war-on-syria-begins-with-mass.html
http://www.veteransnewsnow.com/2013/12/13/britain-edges-towards-boycotting-israel/
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/ssriviolence.php

Foxy,

What one Earth is there in my posts that make you suspect it could be intended as satire?

Can't you tell when I'm being serious?

Anyway a merry Christmas, season's greetings, happy holidays, happy summer solstice, happy Gregorian new year, etc, to all.

And lighten up folks!

Dear Steven,

What made me think you were being satirical?

Perhaps it was your tongue lodged firmly in
your cheek that gave you away or maybe it was
your expose on the low-down of the Peppa Pig family.
Australian politics needs more comical, critical,
satirical views like yours. Delightfully witty and
designed to be offensive to all parties.
Loved it!

And a Merry Mistress And a Happy All Year to You!

The 'audit' is I believe a 'quantitative' one. It is pointless totting up the opposing numbers of politicians during the recent election, or the number of minutes allocated to 'sides'.

Gerard Henderson has reported that the 'audit' (his inverted commas, and appropriate) will be conducted by "Andrea Wills - a British journalist who has spent much of her career at the BBC, along with one year at the ABC". Doubtless she will do what is in her brief to the best of her ability. However as Henderson implies, that brief is not aimed at where any problems might be.

Quite apart from that, it is an excess to have two publicly-funded national broadcasters, ABC and SBS and one should take over the other. In any event the recycled BBC programs are available online, as are scores of wildlife programs, music, you name it.

Where government maintains it cannot afford aged care and to fund their aged care the elderly will have to sell their modest homes of a lifetime where they raised their families, and ambulances are ramped outside hospital doors, two national broadcasters are a luxury taxpayers obviously cannot afford.

Those are just some of the inconvenient facts that the 'Peppa Pig' Red Herring seeks to divert attention away from.