Dear mhaze,

What are you blathering about now old chap?

What do you mean independent of the people.

The ABC gets about 20% of the radio audience in the capital cities.

It is by far the highest ranking of news site in the country with nearly 3 million facebook fans.

http://blog.feedspot.com/australian_news_websites/

It is very much the peoples organisation.

20%. Well, of course that beats 80% hands down. And Facebook knuckle-draggers too. Wow!

No, the ABC is not independent. It is very dependent on taxpayer funding.

It is also dependent on the arts to furnish its pool of talent. It is dependent on this pool of talent, to maintain its ideological left wing liberalism bias.

It is also dependent on a very small percentage of the population who use its services, to maintain an interest in its preservation.

It is not independent from Government interference, through its biased board of director appointments; whichever colour of government happens to be in power.

It is not independent of the commercial realities of modern media organisations, and their need to compete for funding, in conventional ways such as advertising and relevant content applicable to that advertising.

It is not independent to the need to move into the real world, and actually strive towards self sufficiency and true independence.

never the less far more want the ABC to remain as it is and follow its charter that is being independant
the right of reality section of this government are leaving even their own voters behind in a rush to please Murdock

Is an independent ABC is now dead?

Shouldn't that be Is an independent ABC now a possibility ?

The ABC is fully funded federally. Its effectively a public service and the employees public servants. Can you imagine the employees of treasury demonstrating about an in house decision