The point so many people miss either deliberately or they just don't get is that it is the Leftist bias of the ABC that gets up most peoples' noses.

Well, my creds are pure on this subject. I have a close inside source working at the ABC, a spy; so my info is accurate.
Secondly, I don't own a TV. neither do I buy newspapers, or read them for that matter.

The reason for that is the anti environmental bias in Murdochs papers.
At the ABC it's left wing bias, in Murdoch press, its right wing bias. It's like a bloody war I don't want to be part of.

As for journalism which I support in principal. I attended the Supreme Court in Sydney two weeks ago to observe the sentencing of an Australia freelance journalist to two years of imprisonment, for exposing members of the NSW judiciary as pedophiles.

These are the same judges that issued a three months jail term to a catholic pedophile priest, who spent the last twenty years buggering little boys.

You probably heard nothing of that event, but, at the same time, were driven to boredom by over the top coverage of an Australian journalist jailed for six years in Cambodia.

Here is a joke... perhaps extreme for some... be warned.

“Did you hear? They took Saragossa”
“Her husband too?”
“No, Saragossa is a city”.
“What, they’re taking whole cities now?!”

//The point so many people miss either deliberately or they just don't get is that it is the Leftist bias of the ABC that gets up most peoples' noses.//

The point so many people miss either deliberately or they just don't get is that most of the ABC's programming is entertainment, and that's what most people watch it for. For example I have most recently been (re)watching Blackadder (it never gets old) and a Catalyst program on probability:

http://iview.abc.net.au/show/blackadder/series/2/video/ZZ1589A006S00
http://iview.abc.net.au/show/catalyst

And I cannot work out for the life me where the 'Leftist bias' is supposed to be. I guess the ABC works a bit like a televisual Rorschach test where what people see on their screens says more about them than it does about the ABC's programming. And if they're seeing left-wing bias in absolutely everything on the ABC, from Red Dwarf to Antiques Roadshow, I think that speaks volumes about them.

It tells me they're completely barking mad, for a start.

Dear Toni,

Talking about intelligence (barking mad?) reminds
me of this "Golden Oldie."

An Englishman wants to marry an Irish girl and is told he
needs to become Irish before he can. It's a very simple
operation where they remove 5% of your brain.

Anyway the Englishman wakes up after the operation and the
doctor comes up to him looking all worried and says -

"I'm terribly sorry, there's been a mistake to be sure,
we accidentally removed 50% of your brain instead of 5%."

The Englishman sits up and simply says,

"She'll be right, mate!"

individual,

Even worse, the Left denies that there is a left-wing bias, completely blind to the fact that they are sucking up everything the ABC broadcasts for the obvious left-wing bias.

The ABC will never go because the Right uses it as much as the Left does. There is no other network that airs the views of politicians as the ABC does. The commercial networks have to earn their own incomes; advertisers are not attracted by idiot politicians being interviewed because neither are two thirds of the public - the ones who don't follow the ABC.

So, LNP politicians are just as eager to appear on the ABC as Green Labor is. No publicity is bad publicity. It doesn't matter to thick-skinned politicians that they are constantly interrupted by an ignorant reporter or host; they get their say, and they are likely to gain support from viewers or listeners because of the pig-ignorant reporter. I only occasionally watch current affairs on the ABC, and each time I become more convinced of my right-wing views . After all, Marxist Leftism is not contagious.

I still think that the ABC is an unnecessary burden on taxpayers, most of whom don't use the service at all. But, when I think about it without anger, I believe that the ABC could be doing as much, if not more, damage to the left as it tries to do to the right.