I have fired off the following to the ABC, which is self-explanatory although ABC Radio will operate on different times in the Eastern States.

"Along with many viewers blessed with minds, I would like to see an honest public statement identifying who in your senior staff first proposed that Lateline be terminated, who ran with it and who enforced it. Who is/are trying to dumb the ABC down to the level of the rubbish channels? Names with direct personal contact details.

"Additionally who made the decision to reduce ABC Radio broadcasts in Perth to 6PR levels or lower by at least once replacing the 7.45 am news with the white noise of a cricket broadcast and several times doing the same to AM?

"Who are the enemies of "Your ABC" operating within or above its ranks?"
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The reason for writing to the taxpayer funded ABC is the opposite to the motives of those who criticise the ABC for what it broadcasts, and focuses on accountability for what it REMOVES from its offering.

This focus is in spite of my own and others' irritation over its hours of broadcasting endless juvenile attempts at comedy, especially on Wednesday evenings.

Your Imperial Excellency

Julian VOT X MVLT XX

Thank you for contacting your ABC the home of summer sounds of cricket and good book sales.
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I'm surprised that anyone would miss Lateline or, for that matter the ABC itself,should it ever pass away due to incompetence after being cut off from the public purse, which any sensible government should do.

Julian, although it may not have been an official comedy offering, Late line has become such a poor joke with it's puerile attempts at brainwashing the population with lefty propaganda over recent decades, it is definitely past it's use by date, for this, it's intended purpose.

It is better it's painful death throes be expedited to avoid further embracement. The staff who have done nothing useful in a similar time frame may as well simply sit at home, doing nothing useful, as take up office & studio space doing the same.

If only we could get someone sensible into the organisation, they could do the same with the whole operation. This would at least stop filling the airwaves with the tripe they now produce.

""Who are the enemies of "Your ABC" operating within or above its ranks?""

Robert Conquest's third law of politics applies here....

"The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies."

The second law is also rather apt as regards (y)our ABC...

Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing.

Dear EJ,

Twenty seven current affair years must be at least
a century in human years. But don't be disheartened.
Terrific reporting and great interviews will continue
on the ABC. Yes, Lateline did produce an innovative
brand of late-evening current affairs. Many great
journalists and production teams have worked with
Lateline. The current teams have produced excellent
viewing. However the ABC will continue to do its work
with new programs and investigative daily news.
And lets not forget that Four Corners, the 7.30 Report,
Q&A, the Insiders are still with us.

Also Emma Alberici will now become the ABC's Chief
Economics Correspondent and Stan Grant has been given
the job of Chief Asia Correspondent.

Leigh Sales, Tony Jones are still with us.
I have no doubt that things will continue to follow
in the same excellence of Lateline - which for 27 years
the current affairs show will go down as one of the
great programs in the history of ABC current affairs and
Australian journalism.

"Also Emma Alberici will now become the ABC's Chief Economics Correspondent and Stan Grant has been given the job of Chief Asia Correspondent"

Proving that the $1.3 billion p.a. national broadcaster is still capable of humour, albeit unintended.

My concern is with the intellectual quality of the ABC rather than the perceived political barrow some may perceive it to push or want it to push. Hence the focus on dumbing down.

Parliament , ABC News and docos are aimed at the 11 year old market.
Intellectual quality is awesome and xclnt.

Dear EJ,

Did you happen to watch Q&A tonight
Monday, 11th December 2017?

It was a Prime Ministerial program with
the only panel member being the PM -
Malcolm Turnbull.

Your concerns of the ABC "dumbing down" should
have been put to rest. The questioners, the host
of the show, and most importantly - the Prime
Minister, all performed beautifully. An excellent
program. And certainly very revealing.
The ABC does this so well.

Q&A, especially with Virginia Trioli epitomises the shallow end of the pool.

Q&A is a modern day Roman Colosseum where an overpaid celebrity 'host' with an ever-active earphone with a faceless director, plays provocateur and ringmaster to the baiting and scourging of perceived anti-'Progressive' invitees to the entertainment of a rude Ultimo hipster mob.

Q&A is the antithesis of the sober and deep investigative journalism of the past ABC, 'Aunty', that earned the reputation of independence that is now being trashed by the opinionated, adversarial, face-pulling, celebrity talking heads like Trioli.

However I would add that the hours, years, of time wasted on the stationary cameras focussed on swimming and cricket should also be criticised as lost opportunities for better services, eg informative programs on ordinary everyday needed information/skills for the less advantaged in the community.

Accepting though that the day of 'The Box' is done and the millions being poured into the ABC should be put into community initiated and administered programs and to giving the disadvantaged, which includes pensioners and others on fixed incomes, greater access to the digital revolution, digital technology, that they are largely being excluded from, but is now crucial to keeping involved and to improving their quality of life. The radio services are useful to some areas, but it shouldn't be dominated by pretentious, self-promoting political wafflers like Phillip Adams.

Don't like the ABC. Don't watch the ABC. End of story.

I just read an article in the Courier Mail suggesting that the PM pissed all over the nasty Q&A Left audience that manages to keep decent people away. Gotta like that!

Judging from the comments that came up on the
screen and in the audience our PM did very well
last night on Q&A. As one viewer remarked "He
was Prime Ministerial!"

Yay!

"Don't like the ABC. Don't watch the ABC. End of story."
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Nowhere near end of story. We pay for it and expect that it stick to its old role as source of reliable reporting and intelligent commentary not directed to pushing any barrow whatsoever.

" in the audience our PM did very well last night on Q&A."
Yeah only because the Shooters and Coal lobby kidnapped the ABC security picket-line and waved the fascists through to the right wing seats.