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Barnaby Joyce's withdrawal from Q&A
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Posted by Suseonline, Monday, 13 July 2015 9:28:39 AM
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Leave the programming as is, Abbott's clowns won,t be missed. The only one worth talking to is Turnbull.
Abbott again wants to run the show under his terms, that is not what we are about. Just another part of the Abbott agenda, to dumb down the masses. Posted by doog, Monday, 13 July 2015 9:42:57 AM
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The ABC Board could hardly be called raving lefties, consisting of a strong business background and those closely associated with the establishment
Posted by Paul1405, Monday, 13 July 2015 10:10:44 AM
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There are some here who live in a vacuum or in complete denial of the evidence before them that the ABC has already taken steps to discipline the Q&A executive producer and conduct its own investigation, precisely because it, the ABC, is unhappy with what went down on Q&A.
To dispute the ABC's actions in reaction to the incident that so offended the public and called into question the ABC's independence and good intentions is to admit that the ABC's board in addition to its management, has deeply flawed judgement. Have there been examples of 'poor editorial decisions' (to put it diplomatically) before? Yes and here is one of many, Peter Hitchens v the ferals on Q&A: a masterclass in disdain http://davidvangend.com/?p=1984 What annoys is that the ABC never contemplated public representatives on the review. So much for the Q&A 'exercise in democracy'. Absolute tosh. Instead it appointed someone previously from the SBS and the lightweight, indiscreet Ray Martin. < ABC EDITORIAL REVIEW PANEL ALREADY PREJUDICED .. As befits its reality as a Conservative Free Zone, the ABC chose not to put one conservative on its Editorial Review Panel. As mentioned in MWD last week, the panel comprises one-time ABC journalist Shaun Brown and one-time ABC journalist Ray Martin. Mr Brown did not deliver political diversity when he served as managing director of SBS from 2006-2011. And Ray Martin, a self-declared admirer of the left-wing ideologue John Pilger, is a leftist who tends to criticise both the Coalition and Labor from the left. .. It so happened that Ray Martin appeared on the Channel Seven Sunrise program on Wednesday. In relation to Tony Jones’ performance as Q&A presenter or moderator, Mr Martin made the following comment: I suspect Tony Jones was just as tough on the Labor government as he is on the Coalition right now. So, before the Editorial Review even commenced — and some 12 weeks before it is due to report — Ray Martin has already declared that Tony Jones has ensured fair treatment was achieved in relation to the panellists.> http://tinyurl.com/p2ycvyp Posted by onthebeach, Monday, 13 July 2015 11:12:55 AM
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Poirot,
Your throw away line was BS and I called you out. Grow a pair, admit the mistake and move on. SOL, Even the ABC has realised that it made a cock up. The problem is that they have no intention of doing anything about it, and continues to run a "current affairs" program that is Jerry Springer for left whingers. The PM is not trying to dictate Q&A's content, but is perfectly entitled to remove cabinet ministers until there is an adult in charge to weed out Jerry Springer like circus tricks. Tony Jones can say and do whatever he wants, but without coalition ministers to lend legitimacy. Paul, You don't even see the irony in your post. Q&A is a left whinge program, run by left whingers, with a left whinge host, mostly left whinge panelists, almost exclusively left whinge audiences, mostly left whinge topics, and almost universally ignored by anyone that didn't vote greens or labor. I suppose the perfect greens program would be a group of Milne, SHY, and Karel Solom talking about the evils of industry, climate change, gay marriage and how inconsiderate the women and children were to drown themselves and giving people smuggling a bad name. Posted by Shadow Minister, Monday, 13 July 2015 11:20:12 AM
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Suse says: "I for one will be extremely disappointed if Q&A changes in any way to accommodate this dictator's demands. It is absurd, and quite paranoid on Abbott's part."
Dictator's demands.... who's the one that's looking genuinely paranoid? Suse you and a few others are loosing all perspective, possibly even your grasp on reality. This may be a PM that you don't like, and he may be trying to flex his authority, but we are a long, long, long way away from living under a totalitarian dictatorship. Keep it real. Posted by ConservativeHippie, Monday, 13 July 2015 11:24:28 AM
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I just read an interesting article re this very subject:
http://theconversation.com/six-reasons-abbotts-peace-deal-on-qanda-isnt-quite-what-it-seems-44551
It seems that whichever section of the ABC Tones wants to shift the Q&A program to has already been accused by his supporters of being 'leftie biased'.
Why? Because they don't tow the party line and say what Tones wants them to say.
I for one will be extremely disappointed if Q&A changes in any way to accomodate this dictator's demands. It is absurd, and quite paranoid on Abbott's part.