Dear mhaze,

You really are a feral little thing aren't you.

Your distortions are as always amusing in thy show the lengths you go to to try and score the smallest of points.

You take: “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.”

And try and turn it into this: “You were saying that "the ABC is prepared to hold the government to account". So it isn't compliant or muzzled.”

FFS. I'm struggling to find the words. Perhaps venal idiocy on your behalf goes someway.

The slashing of hundreds of news and journalist's jobs is effectively muzzling through starving of resources which in turn temper managers. Why is that so hard for you to grasp?

Shadowminister,

Rubbish. How on earth do you know whether journos or left or right. David Spears, the new Insiders host was recruited from the very right wing Sky News. As long as they do their job without obvious bias then it really doesn't matter. What does matter is the board who set the direction of the organisation. It is saturated with rightwingers and heavily influences the organisation. It is also the one which has repeatedly instituted editorial reviews dredging for bias and to a very large degree have come up with nothing.

One of the latest was done by “British journalist Kerry Blackburn, who held senior editorial roles in the UK at ITN, the BBC and Channel Five, it was the 19th editorial review commissioned by the ABC board. “

“The reviewer “did not find a pronounced bias in the framing of the narrative in favour or against either of the main parties”. The ABC’s news coverage “consistently reflected a diversity of perspectives and covered a broad range of policy and campaign issues”. “

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/dec/10/abc-criticises-senate-for-releasing-internal-report-which-found-some-panel-programs-favoured-labor

So the inquiry was both independent and commissioned by the right wing board of the ABC. What more do you lot bloody well want?

Poor old SR seems to be struggling with tense. Somehow he thinks that the ABC is currently muzzled because of future staff cuts.

I'm not hungry now because I will have eaten in the future.

Orwell said “Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future.”. No wonder SR has difficulty understanding that notion....he seems to think the present, past and future are all the same thing.

Hypothetical future actions against the ABC affect their current and past actions!!

Dear mhaze,

Now old boy you are starting to just babble. Nonsensical blatter isn't going to win a thing. No matter what torture you inflict on them with you interpretation of the English language you can't turn my words into something they aren't.

However the amount of energy you have invested in this basically reveals you have nothing to contribute to the wider topic under discussion at all.

SR,

Skynews is far more centric than the ABC. Only an idiot would call Graham Richardson, Troy Bramston and PVO right wing. David Speers (though hardly right-wing) was probably an attempt to make amends for the almighty cock-up that Emma Alberici made.

My previous comments stand. The bias of the ABC is clear in its programs and articles in that the left is overwhelmingly represented and conservative voices are non-existent.

SR wrote: "No matter what torture you inflict on them with you interpretation of the English language you can't turn my words into something they aren't."

You mean logical? You're right, there's no way I can extract any logic from your ravings. Saying something is already happening because of something that might happen in the future is obviously bonkers. Still you persist.

Couldn't help but notice that throughout all your squirming as you try to find a way out of the corner you painted yourself into, you still are ignoring the point that the ABC staff skew heavily hard left.

OTOH avoiding things you don't want to be true is very SR, n'est pas?

Oh dear mhaze, really? That is it?

Why are you reduced to banging on about "Saying something is already happening because of something that might happen in the future is obviously bonkers."

No my ill-read chap. It is happening now.

"In late-June the ABC announced cuts to programming and as many as 250 redundancies, blaming a three-year funding freeze that took effect last July for stripping $84 million from the public broadcaster's budget worth just over $1 billion a year.

The ABC has consistently complained about its funding under the Coalition in recent years. The ABC's head of news, Gaven Morris, said in May 2018 he would have to "cut into muscle" to absorb the funding freeze at a time Aunty was trying to reach younger audiences."
http://www.smh.com.au/national/was-the-abc-s-funding-cut-20200814-p55lvr.html