Steele, I can't believe you wrote that. Your account must have been hacked. Even for you it is delusional. I catch you in misdirection all the time, but a baldfaced untruth??

A new poster, and his opening post and topic starter is a diatribe attacking the ABC. Typical hard right nonsense, makes one suspect one of the old farts has got himself a new nick.

He might be a new commenter but he's written dozens of articles for OLO and many more for other publications over the years.

If this is the real Viv Forbes, and not someone who has pinched his name, he has been around serious discussions on important subjects for a long time. And, any relief from the ignorant extreme left muck and abuse sprayed around with no regard to truth or common sense is welcome. If he is a fake, he will still be a big improvement on ABC-dependent bores.

Dear GrahamY,

Bald faced lie? Well old boy you are going to have to back that up rather than just running with ideological bleating.

You could start by pointing to any inquiry into the ABC which showed even moderate bias.

Or explain how far right ideologues like Windshuttle or Janet Albrechtsen along with Neil Brown where hired to oversee board appointments, end up on the board?

Or explain why you think the slashing of hundreds of jobs due to significant budget cuts will not have had a chilling effect on how much the ABC is prepared to hold the government to account.

Are these the products of my delusion or is ignoring the blinking obvious a function of yours?

Those of the hard right, even the ones considered intelligent, being used to a diet of biased opinion and propaganda from news outlets that agree with their predisposed thinking, will claim bias when presented with balance. That's what we find with the ABC, balanced reporting of the news of the day being perceived as biased reporting by hard right ideologs from a forum like this.

Some years back I recall a survey during a federal election campaign where Coalition voters perceived the ABC as 60% in favour of Labor, but in the same survey Labor voters seen just the opposite, a 60% bias in favour of the Coalition.

Steele, at the end of the day GY is unlikely to return with any concrete facts to support his claim, just his biased opinion.