Is Mise,

I agree. ABC is the best for drama. I'm watching "New Blood" tonight. Normally watch ABC Friday to Sunday only. Commercial TV is crap.

ttbn,
"Do you think that the researchers just prefer left wing extremism and corruption?"
Firstly, your comprehension is atrocious! Corruption is one of the things they found there's LESS of when there's public broadcasting, so why would they prefer it?

Secondly, left wing extremism was so discredited by the fall of the Soviet Union that it's no longer a serious threat anywhere.

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Referundemdrivensocienty,

That sounds like a hoax to me. If that bloke really exists, what was his name?

There were no people in Tower 7 when it collapsed. The building had been on fire for hours due to burning debris falling on it, and fire fighters weren't fighting those fires (partly because of insufficient water available, but mostly because they were concentrating on the rescue effort. The people in it had been evacuated hours before, and the fire fighters knew the collapse was imminent.

//I agree. ABC is the best for drama.//

They've got all the best comedy as well. But I find that SBS is generally better for documentaries (although the ABC does get some crackers). But what really makes them the best, in my opinion, is that they are not wall-to-wall full of reality TV shite. By gods that rubbish gets up my nose.

No ads during programs is also very nice. And their streaming service, iView, is miles ahead of anything the commercial stations offer. Pretty good value for your 14 cents a day (it's blown out a bit since the 1980's), which also covers all their other services like local radio that I don't use much.

Yes, Toni, the SBS has good documentaries but, like the ABC, its opinions are well to one side. As for ABC comedy : can't agree there. I find Australian comedy about as funny as a shark attack. Give me the Poms any day. Totally agree on the 'reality' shows. I only see the non-stop promos for them, and even then, I'm sick to death of cooking and bulding. If the constant production of these awful, boring programs is reflective of audience surveys, it doesn't say much for the mass of Australian TV viewers.

Aidan,

I was going to say that your sense of humour was "atrocious", but I'll replace that with 'non-existent'.

An advocate for public broadcasting finds that public broadcasting is good. Well colour me convinced.

The opening paragraph of the report says that "Building the case for Public Service Media (PSM) has always been at the centre of EBU activities". So they decided on the results and then went looking for the data.

Note that this only applies to Europe. Note also that they simply found a correlation ie they think they can show that more funds to PSM means more press freedom. But the data could just as easily been used to show that countries that can afford to put more funds into PSM also have press freedom ie that wealth provides freedom and PSM funding.

So tortured data confesses as required.

Re Referundemdrivensocienty, the guy (Tony Rooke) didn't show "videos of the BBC reporting the fall of Building 7" as you assert. The court didn't accept that evidence and didn't allow it as admissible. I think the judge made that ruling after he stopped laughing :) . Rooke lost the case and was required to pay all costs.

I'm no fan of the BBC but calling it a terrorist organisation simply bastardises the term.