http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/tony-abbott-urged-to-review-abcs-standards/story-fn59niix-1226821303435#
Are the headlines of the Murdock press slanted?
Did Australia Ban making and distribution of the Communist news paper.
What is freedom of speech, have we the the right ever to stop it?
Well aware many would gladly stamp out the ABC but is that what we should do.
Should Labor then in power stop the presses at the Australian?
Deeper issues than Rupert Murdock,s wants and wishes, Tony Abbott,s hurt feeling are under consideration here.
Have we the right to murder thoughts other than out own .

Was it last year? I think it was a court had ruled Bolts questioning the race of some claiming Aboriginal back grounds, that he had no rights to question them.
GY asked the question in a thread here was ,well no longer sure of the title but asking as I saw it was the ruling wrong, and what the implications might be.

Let me be clear, I am far from a fan of Bolt, but took the view he had every right to ask the very same question many Australians wanted answers to.

Do we save his right to his views but stifle our ABC because it is not a slavish supporter of an Abbott policy.
Is it justice to require only views we like are published?

The media need to report the facts and need
to do their homework. The ABC should have checked
with the Navy for their side of the story before
slandering them on accusations made by people
who have a nasty resentment of the Australian Navy
and wish to tear down their ability to protect
Australian borders.

It was just prostitution on the part of the ABC media.
Selling their integrity for a sensationalist story.
Who cares if the good men and women of the Australian Navy
got trashed in the fallout.

I love the ABC and I would never want to see them shut down
but they need to present the facts untarnished by biased leftist
opinions. AS does most media in this country who regularly print
stories based more on their opinion than actual research & factual
reporting. They are after a quick sensationalist headline.

Belly,

If your snout is gobbling up the taxpayers money, it is required that you don't run it along Labor party political lines.

We needed a public broadcaster 5 decades ago when there was little to no private broadcasting. Today the ABC is a dinosaur and should be flogged off.

The $billion that goes to the ABC this year could be directed instead into a worthwhile infrastructure project. Imagine, something truly worthwhile every year instead of overpaid celebrity hacks asking the same old questions of politicians.

The narrow bridges on the national highway that have been there forever could be gone and forgotten.

Leave the ABC as a single national radio station for the nostalgic and sell the rest.

'Our' ABC, or 'Their' ABC:
<Despite the departure of 120 senior staff in the past two years, the number and cost of highly paid managers, staff and on-air "talent" continues to grow.

In 2012-13, 231 staff and managers (including 55 who left) were paid in excess of $180,000, up from 201 (including 65 who left) the year before.

A year earlier the ABC had just 150 staff paid $150,000 or more. That figure was 138 in 2009-10.

High flyers cost the corporation a combined $58 million in the past year, compared with $50 million the year before.

The corporation's total wages bill fell by $8 million to $478 million in 2012-13; however, it also spent $27 million, up $1.2 million, on consultants and contractors.

Total ABC expenditure fell $12 million to $1.17 billion, but earned revenue was down by $14 million.

In May, the Gillard government propped up the ABC with a $90 million loan to assist with its cash flow requirements for specific initiatives over three years. It also provided $10 million to create an ABC fact checking unit.>
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/abc-broadcaster-costs-taxpayers-1-billion-for-first-time/story-fni0fiyv-1226746260719

Belly, what we need according to some is a public broadcaster hog tied to The Liberal Party, if it can't say something good about Abbott and his government, then it should say nothing, after all he is paying the bills! Sell the ABC off and leave it all to Uncle Rupts media rags to exult the raptures virtues of living under the blissful Abbott regime. Like the Russians learned that they owed their very existence to Comrade Starlin you to will learn that you owe everything to our Fearless Leader The Abbott. Possibly you may require some "re-education", having once been exposed to that evil left wing propaganda from the independent ABC. I think 5 years spent in the Manus Island Gulag listening to inspirational recitals of old Johnny Howard speech's should be enough of a education for you.