A few days ago, the Federal Council of the Liberal Party called for the “full privatisation of the ABC, except for services into regional areas that are not commercially viable”. The vote was 2:1 for.

Turnbull's response: “Nuh”.

So, we mugs will go on paying one BILLION dollars a year – much of which goes to simpering presenters who have taken it on themselves to harass and lecture us on what we should be saying and thinking; the most vacuous, nobody CEO ever, plus who knows how many puppeteers backstage. About $2 million dollars is spent annually advertising this circus, which has no competition.

The Australian Advertising Corporation is just another very expensive and unnecessary government department, staffed by public servants, which should be abolished along with a lot of other federal government departments.

Turnbull isn't stupid - he knows that yours is a fringe viewpoint that the vast majority of Aussies consider repugnant.

See http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s4858440.htm

Blatant emotional manipulator, aiming itself at the brainless non thinking majority, and giving themselves a guarantee of riches, supplied in a trough, feeding directly from the beleaguered tax payer. Close it down….

So if the news is not slanted to fit your view we should make it do so? that way leads to ,Trumps dictator types save the ABC no matter the cost.

The funding of the ABC works out to approx. 14 cents a
day for every man woman and child. Our per capita funding
is 34% lower than the average of other public broadcasters
including the BBC.

No. it should definitely not be privatised.

Currently the ABC enjoys a degree of independence and is
free to say and do whatever it likes (within the rules of
proper broadcasting). If it was sold to a private owner it
would no longer exist to serve its charter, it would exist
to serve the interests of its owner.

Privatising the ABC would be disastrous for the culture of
this country and any politician who seriously suggests it
as one commentator stated "should be smacked about the head
and marched out of Parliament and thrown into Lake Burley
Griffin."

Julian Burnside pointed out a few years back that media
ownership in Australia is notoriously narrow. Mainstream
media offers precious little diversity and such diversity as
there is runs along predictable lines.

Just as mainstream traditional media is full of voices
(mostly strident) telling government what to do, so the
blogosphere and social media are full of voices more numerous
and diverse and others more strident - doing the same.

Those of us who are torn between the desert of mainstream media
and the jungle of the internet need a place where rational
but diverse voices can be found on matter os enduring importance.
The ABC is such a place.

It would be difficult to agree with every view expressed on the
ABC but it would be equally difficult to disagree with them all.
And it would be impossible to criticise any of them as
irrational and foolish unless of course one happens to be
irrational and foolish.

Aidan,

“Turnbull isn't stupid - he knows that yours is a fringe viewpoint that the vast majority of Aussies consider repugnant”.

Turnbull is not stupid, but you ARE for for referring to an organ of the ABC to defend the ABC.

Opinions are not ‘repugnant’ just because you do not agree with them, and your claim that “the vast majority of Aussies consider (my opinions) repugnant” is really stupid. Most Australians do not know my opinions on the ABC’ nor do they watch or listen to the ABC themselves