Aries54,

Are you going to answer my question on whether you are a non-white person, which makes you comfortable criticising white people, which in turn makes you are a racist for judging people by the colour of their skin? Or, are you a white self-hater, ashamed of his own race because you want to be 'in' with a small clique of lunatics who have brainwashed you?

I'm not judging you, just asking how you justify this "old privileged white men" business. If you are going to make such slurs, you really should be able to explain why. I suspect that you are just going along with the mob and parroting what you have heard, particularly as you have declined to answer the question.


rache,

There is no hypocrisy. You just don't get it.

The ABC actually gets $1.1 billion annually, and while not everyone pays income tax, everyone does pay a myriad of taxes, including the GST on most purchases. Buying goods, which you claim have an advertising cost added to them (how much is that, by the way) is discretionary - as opposed to the cost of the ABC, whether we use it or not; and two thirds of us do not use it.

You don’t have to agree with me. You can love the ABC to bits. But you don't have to come up with illogical, irrelevant BS to do so.

Deat ttbn

Oh, the frustration you must be suffering not being able to pigeon hole me and conveniently write me off. For your information I am not someone '...just going along with the mob and parroting what you have heard ...' The 2 greatest compliments I ever received were when a student said to me "You aren't like all the other teachers here. They just tell us stuff. You expect us to think." And a professor at university said after I had asked him a question "We have a thinker among us."

You ask how do I justify this 'old privileged white men' business? From the evidence ttbn, from the evidence. As a casual reader of The Catallaxy Files for several years now, many of the contributors to that blog have outed themselves as just that - old, white, privileged and (mostly) men.

Dear Aidan, Aries54, and rache,

It really is disturbing that at the height of the
coronavirus emergency and on the back of devastating
bushfires, Australia's much awarded and trusted national
broadcaster is again being forced to make major cuts to
staff, services and programs.

It's doing so to offset the latest budget shortfalls as a
result of successive cuts from the Coalition government.
Even the travel budget, which allows journalists and storytellers
to get to places not accessible by others has been cut by 25%
announced in 2018. This has reduced the ABC budget by $84
million over 3 years and has resulted in an ongoing reduction of
$41 million PA from 2021.

This is part of an on going reductions to ABC funding that total
$783 million since 2014. These cuts to the ABC in real terms mean
operational funding will be much more lower in 2021-22 that
they were in 2013.

This is happening at a time when the public really cannot afford
to be getting their news from Facebook or other social media
outlets, the Murdoch press, Sky News, et al. Cutting hundreds
of people who contribute to some of Australia's most reliable
and quality journalism and storytelling and literally saving
lives during bushfires is hopelessly short-sighted.

The latest Digital News Report 2020 clearly showed the ABC is
the media outlet Australians trust the most.

Aries45,

Ye gods! You are a teacher, a source of misinformation, brainwashing without parents’ permission, and the general dumbing down of education that has seen Australia’s global standard plummet. Had I known, I wouldn’t have expected you to be able to come up with sensible answers. You will clearly be passing you politics on race, getting kids to be ashamed of who they are - the whole Marxist shooting match. I have never been a teacher, but I have been married to one for 53 years, and she is horrified by the indoctrination your lot practises these days, and the dummies you turn out.

You tell kids to think for themselves? After you have already poisoned their minds with what you think.

Your “evidence” for insulting white men (you clearly aren’t going to reveal your colour) is based on a single website nobody looks at. There are all sorts of websites, books, magazines etc catering for nutters. You look at one example, and you feel free to badmouth white men. And you have been reading the crap for “several years now”. You might have a personality problem.

I hope that you or someone like you is not brainwashing my great-grandchildren.

A snippet of the current Senate Estimate Committee enquiry into the ABC I watched was far more entertaining than the ABC itself.

A Senator told the ABC representative that he was confused about what the Corporation sees as analysis, news, and opinion. The ABC spokesman was even more confused, ducking and diving, and not really able to answer questions ‘without notice’.

When asked to describe programs he called the 7.30 Report news, as he did AM, PM, and The World Today. This being the case, the Senator asked if giving opinions in these ‘news’ programs would be against the ABC guidelines. The ABC person tried to wriggle out with “we have opinions in news stories”, but the Senator explained to him that he was talking about opinions of REPORTERS, mentioning some egregious examples of Sabra Lane on the Liberal government’s handling of vaccines. It was “bungled” she said.

The Senator put to the ABC representative that she was giving her opinion rather than relaying facts as she is supposed to do on a ‘news’ program. Your man didn’t answer, preferring to waffle on about how experienced Lane was, and that she was a “subject specialist”.

There would have been much more tooing and froing, but there was enough seen for the conclusion to be made that both the ABC and the government are both playing games at our expense.

Touche ttbn.

You can't hide your prejudice and bias for a second can you? The classic instant retort of the unimaginative - "...the whole Marxist shooting match..." Love it.

And talk about throwing the IPA blog under a bus. A website "...nobody looks at..." and I've been reading '...the crap...". Such high praise now, from someone who has sung its virtues in the past. Convenient hypocrisy on your part me thinks.

And Foxy

I agree.