Foxy,

You could have just admitted that you cannot make a business case for the ABC either.

Welcome back Foxy!
Great to hear from you and to read those words as opposed to some thrown at you here.
ABC by its very nature in doing what is asked of it will always upset some, from any side.
However nothing is more dangerous to freedom and democracy, nothing! than Murdock,s extremist right wing views he inflicts on all he owns.
I will fight him and his tin soldiers such as Abbott till I die.
I ,truly, am concerned that his acts in the British press, his sabotage of competitors in America are forgotten by those in his debt.
A day will come that see the whole world wide effort to get power and control has tainted many in right wing politics uncovered and bring much shame to some.

otb,

That has already been done except that for
someone like yourself it's hard to comprehend.

Someone who overall wants to stop the so called
"socialists" (aka Fabians, aka, Progressives,
aka Emily Listers, aka the greens, et cetera, et cetera,
et cetera), from ruining the country (and the world) for
good, simple, honest, conservative people, like yourself.

As stated earlier, in all, these are negative, short-sighted
aspirations from a petty, small-minded man - totally incapable
of understanding the ABC and the job it does with programs
like "Media Watch," "The 7.30 Report," "Q and A,"
"Lateline," "News 24," "The Drum," and so on.
Including what the ABC means to rural Australians and
internationally.
No more needs to be said.

Dear Belly,

Thanks for your welcome back.
And you're right as SteeleRedux pointed
out on another thread these "bigoted throwbacks
need to be taken to task every time they put their
grubby little pens to paper..." However, I usually
don't have the interest to do it. They might enjoy
"vomiting up their nastiness all over the place," but
I don't want to give them a platform from which to do
it. I just want them to take their "sick little gabfest
and go pollute somewhere else." Best not to respond or
read their neanderthal bile.

Belly, "ABC by its very nature in doing what is asked of it"

What is "asked of it" and by whom?

Precisely what needs is it serving that are not already being met through other means, such as the internet, commercial sources and so on?

Why the apparent redundancy and duplication among the national broadcasters, SBS, ABC and indigenous television? How many publicly funded national broadcasters do we need and can afford?

Foxy,

So you still have no idea of a business case for continuance of the ABC?

Let alone for its 'children' that appear to have displaced it from a lion's share of its former role, or more correctly from things it fell into doing and has expanded into without public consultation and due consideration by parliament?

As for all of those political comment shows, since when was that a role of the national broadcaster anyhow and isn't there already heaps of that about?

The following link explains why voters feel that we need an
independent ABC :

http://www.theage.com.au/comment/the-age-letters/why-we-need-an-independent-abc-20140130-31pqs.html

Dear Belly,

See you on another thread.