Accusations of bias against the ABC are useful tools
to undermine confidence and support for the network.
Just as fake news is used by Putin's Russia to
undermine social stability and confidence in institutions
of the West, especially the USA.

Lets take a closer look at the ABC. It devotes time
to issues that are largely ignored by other media - and
in doing so it paints a picture of an Australia that is
at odds with some people's beliefs about Australia -
for whom Australia is white, European, Christian, and male.
In their minds this is bias - but is it bias or a reflection
of the modern reality of Australia?

Then we have the accusations of the ABC being expensive.
According to The Guardian - the ABC now costs each Australian
4 cents a day. Half of what it did 30 years ago.

The ABC is not full of pinkos who want to brain wash our
children in secret hippy communes. On the contrary - chances are
the ABC will be doing - the stories and the reporting
on those hippy communes - bringing
them to our attention.

As for Germaine Greer on Q&A?

Q&A's aim has always been to create a discussion program that
reflected a wide diverse range of views and provide a rare
opportunity to Australians to directly question politicians
and others on the panel and hold them to account on a
national forum. Being included on the panel is not an
endorsement. The ABC could not possibly endorse all the views
expressed on Q&A. Their aim is to include significant
opinions. And that is the job that they do very well. Their
goal is to bring together people who don't agree because they
believe that shutting down arguments does not make them
go away.

And for that we should all be grateful

Dear diver dan,

You claim;

“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.”

What info?

All you did was bag out the ABC with not a single assertion of fact. If you would like to try again I am all eyes so to speak.

Shane was sentenced to 18 months not two years, and to call him a journalist would be a crime. He himself states “I only call myself a journalist to stir the other journalists up'.

Dear Canem Malum,

You wrote;

“it's not fine for a corporate TV station to act like the ABC”

Whatever are you getting at?

Well one way they don't act like a corporate station is that they have guidelines in place to prevent it and the fact they do not have to beholden to corporate interests. Why isn't that a good thing?

SteeleRedux

What info?

Inside info....the ABC is the centre of a rampant homosexual workforce and all that goes with it! Some would say left wing.. I say left wink!

Shane?

Dear diver dan,

"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."

Don't you even remember the poor bloke's name? Or perhaps there was another case. Now that would be a turn up for the books wouldn't it.

As to the ABC is your problem with them the assumption there are more homosexuals employed there than other workplaces or that they aren't doing their job of exposing corruption and government mismanagement?

If it is the former then that is idiotic, if the later prove it.

SteeleRedux,

Maybe you should give some information on the man you refer to as Shane. What has your Shane been involved in, (the Shane you described as "not" a journalist).

Now the subject matter of the ABC.
I'd like to do a bit of cross referencing between the staffing of the ABC, and the staffing of Qantas. Qantas is another misfit operation in which I have a spy, (not in the baggage department either).

Qantas is another of those modern day "equality" corporate operations where answers to your pre-employment questioning, will be required to match the lack of morality of it's chief executive, or no job. Just like it is over at the ABC.
In simple language, pro gay rights. Which of course is dead-match to the ethics, or lack of, of the Labor Green alliance.

To deny that the ABC was actually the epicentre of the gay rights campaign, is to deny reality. It's a left wing flying circus. It must go.

Dear diver dan,

Okay so we have ascertained you might be a touch adverse to those who are not hetro enough for you. Your prerogative of course.

What you don't get to do is to call this a left wing issue. Tim Wilson is a former author at the Gina stable of 'independent' writers called the Institute of Public Affairs. The bloke is as right wing as they bloody well come. Yet he was probably the most high profile gay rights advocate through the debate even proposing to his male partner from the floor of the parliament.

Over two thirds of this country voted for same sex marriage, not because they were particularly invested in the issue but because they had the good sense to recognise that it was the FAIR thing to do. That is what makes this country worth championing, what in so many ways defines us, and you want to crap all over it.

We are moving on. You can stay stuck where you are or instead you can put aside whatever baggage your carrying and start valuing this country and its institutions a bit more, and that includes the A, B, bloody C!

As to Shane, who was the so called journo you reckon got banged up for 2 years by the Supreme Court?