to be fair to the abc they aren't the only tax payer funded Marxist organisation pushing putried dogmas. The uni's are full of feminist/Marxist who have done really well for themselves at tax payer expense. And lets not forget the HRC who receive huge salaries to make up cases of racism to feed the likes of the abc. The swamp is fairly large as Trump has found out.

Here is a post from another OLO thread, that came to my attention this morning.
Same problem different country.
As in Germany, the pervasive social rot of their country, starts and finishes with the public broadcaster ..ARD.

COPY:
Writing from Germany.

You might ask yourself:

Who is delivering you the mainstream media news?
Could those people be tempted to push their own agenda?

Helmut Markwort is one of the top journalists in Germany, founder of the news magazine FOCUS as well as several radio stations.

Check his statement in the following interview starting at time stamp 10:30:

Journalists have been asked and replied anonymously which party they would vote for. The majority tends to the Green party. (which is a splinter party in Germany with around 11%)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08bCsyuMoio (not translated).

Does the Green party have an agenda? Of course, but nowadays it is not the environment any more but to support Merkel and have unlimited and uncontrolled immigration. Would you think that those green journalists prefer to deliver news that support their agenda? The answer is up to you.

Isn't it funny that the original poster writes:
"95% of Green voters trust the public broadcasting system"

*..Greens and the left have been on the "long march through the institutions" since 1968, and by now have infiltrated everything in Germany, not only the media...*

News that don't support their view are therefore branded "fake news", and in reality the reader or viewer has no way anyway to decide what is fake and what is real.

Hasn't history proven that the news from those in power were fake many times?

If I would publish my opinion (end the open borders) under my real name in Germany I would certainly have to look for a new job. And my wife, too. The left and the green have everything under control, even those people with different opinions because nobody dares to speak out any more. ..

(And Au? Try for a job in the ABC or Qantas without Greens equality and diversity alignment)..

As we have got right off the topic again, here's a comment on the ABC by Jo Nova (one of the smart women not needing quotas): “Foreigners wonder how a rich country with more resources per capita, no land borders, and brilliant weather can screw things up in Oscar Winning Style. Look no further than the billion dollar gift with no strings attached for a neo-marxist collective to masquerade as the nation’s most trusted news source”.

Chris Kenny adds his comments, saying that, “ … had you been stranded on an island for the past few years with nothing to watch, listen to or read from but Australia’s public broadcaster”, you would be under the false impression that:

The Australian Navy tortured asylum seekers, then sent them to be raped on Nauru.

People smuggling was impossible to stop.

Turning back boats would cause conflict with Indonesia.

Climate change was the greatest threat to the world.

A carbon tax would put an end to droughts, floods, hurricanes and save the Great Barrier Reef.

And, our dams are nearly dry.

All this twaddle, while the problems really are the ABC itself, the rest of the rag-tag Left media, and Australian politicians, describe recently by Professor David Flint as Australia's “worst ever”.

ttbn.

In short, our Democratic institutions, such as our governing bodies, through parliamentary processes, and now corporate Australia, have been vassalized by the media.
To some such as yourself, you acknowledge only half the problem. Murdoch is as big a problem as the other end of the spectrum, the ABC. The difference of course is the tax payer funding of the other end, re the ABC. That model should stop.

Skin in the game is what should be demanded from the media. Bad decision making should be punished; especially punished with the negatives of market forces as a reward for bad judgement.

The ABC should in turn, be vassalized and tied to private enterprise, subjecting it to full accountability.

Media ownership in Australia is notoriously
narrow.

Julian Burnside QC - wrote more than a decade ago
on media in Australia. I've adapted some of his
views which I think are appropriate to our discussion
regarding the ABC.

Burnside pointed out that -
mainstream media - offers precious little diversity
and such diversity as there is runs along
predictable lines. This has unhappy results now
that both major political parties seem to have
abandoned their founding principles and are forming
policies by reference of media coverage generally and
to news polls and focus groups in particular.

The
internet offers a vast supply of news - especially
opinion.

Just as mainstream traditional media is full of voices
(mostly strident) telling governments what to do, so
the blogosphere and social media is full of voices
more numerous and diverse and often 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 views can be found on matters of
enduring importance.

The ABC is such a place.

It would be difficult to agree with every view expressed in
the programs given 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 or foolish.

The loudest voices in the dominant outlets play a major
part in shaping the views which will be expressed in news
polls.

Founding principles and philosophy have disappeared as
significant forces in policy formation. In these circumstances
it is more important than ever to have an outlet which
is rational and principled, without being biased to any
social or political position.

That is why the ABC does matter and why we should
support it!

SR,

Yes I am Australian, are you?

With my new position I don't have the same amount of time to allocate to OLO which is why you are clearly missing my insight.

As you base your "learning" it is clear why your opinions are as ill informed or fictitious as your source.

Foxy,

Contrary to your claims the ABC is clearly dominated by those from the left and far left. It has almost completely abandoned its mandate and has been pulled up several times for publishing fake news.