cont'd ...

Ooops - again a typo. Sorry:

http://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2014/march/1393592400/don-watson/conservative-crusade-against-abc#mtr

We often see this strange but typical form of doublethink from the ABC supporters.

They have two major points to make:

1. The ABC isn't biased to the left. It's all a figment of those idiot conservative's wild imagination. Indeed some will even argue that the ABC is right leaning because of its management.

then in the very next breathe:

2. We need the ABC to be biased to the left to offset all the right bias of the Murdoch media.

So.... the ABC isn't biased to the left and isn't it great that the ABC is biased to the left.

Dear Hasbeen and mhaze,

Neither of you get it do you.

The complaint about the ABC from the left is that in order to grovel to their LNP board and LNP upper management they have pulled their own teeth.

Here is Friendly Jordies lamenting the utter inane triviality Triple J has become. I'm on board with his criticism.
http://youtu.be/gJaeWDNEKUM

We are sick of seeing softball questions to pollies and bureaucrats. We are sick of the tiptoeing around substantial issues that goes on all the time. Where are the Barry Cassidy's and the Tony Jones'? I can't listen to ABC 774 mornings any more. It is just so much trite nonsense which is just how the LNP like it. As FJ says, they will never get rid of the ABC because there is very little on it which directly challenges them. Q&A is not holding those in power to account nor is Insiders. They are shadows of their former selves. You guys have won, at least for the moment. The ABC ratings on shows like Q&A will continue to decline not because they are too left but because they are too insipid to draw respect.

I find the ABC pandering excessively to the would be indigenous !

Within this group there are:

* Some who think the ABC is biased to one degree or more to the left.
* Some who think the ABC is unbiased
* Some who think the ABC is biased to the left and that's needed because Murdoch and....

* ONE who thinks the ABC is biased to the right.

And that one thinks everyone else doesn't get it.

Struth.

Dear mhaze,

You doing it again, being thick.

You snarl:

"* ONE who thinks the ABC is biased to the right."

Where did I say it was biased to the right you muppet? I didn't. I said the board and the upper management are mostly LNP supporters and this has resulted in a compliant less aggressive ABC and we are all poorer for it.