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The ABC are becoming lower by the day...The ABC is a national disgrace for not allowing the airing of the Prime Ministers speech at his own literary rewards.

Both Turnbull and Scott should be sacked.

It is the Fabians at work at their best.


http://www.theaustralian.com.au/bus...513600448?sv=e22ae3cef05dbd00ea8ddf2f7a240028

The ABC has used its editorial independence charter as a *reason for refusing to broadcast live a literary speech by Tony Abbott — at the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards.

The broadcaster was unwilling to air Mr Abbott’s speech at the awards, one of the nation’s richest literary events, and yet was happy to allow the prize-winning authors to speak live and unedited.

Australian Publishers Association president Louise Adler, the event’s organiser, has revealed that negotiations with the ABC broke down irreconcilably last year because the broadcaster was unwilling to show Mr *Abbott’s speech.

“The ABC refused to broadcast the PM’s speech, which was going to be about seven minutes,” Ms Adler told The Weekend Australian.

“What was puzzling was the ABC’s willingness to broadcast unedited the prize-winning *writers’ speeches but not the Prime Minister of the day.

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“What if a writer had said something defamatory? One can’t but deduce that the national broadcaster was making a political judgment rather than an editorial judgment.”

The ABC’s stance stands in contrast to the corporation’s willingness to give convicted criminal and terrorist sympathiser Zaky Mallah a national platform on its Q&A show.

Instead, Sky and SBS televised the awards, in December last year, with managing directors Angelos Frangopoulos and Michael Ebeid agreeing to broadcast the event live and without alterations.

Ms Adler, the chief executive of Melbourne University Publishing, said there were many other forums on the ABC where citizens were given a live and unedited platform.

“When I go on Q&A, ABC management have no idea what I’m going to say,” she said.

“This is the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards and he intended to make a significant speech in support of Australian writing and writers.

“Isn’t celebrating our literary culture part of the ABC’s brief? It was a very disappointing response.”

The Prime Minister was more than willing to compromise on the length of his speech, if seven minutes was deemed too long, she said.

She also clarified that it was not Mr Abbott’s request to have his speech televised live, but part of the project team’s efforts to ensure the awards became a major event that captured the public’s attention.

In Britain, the Man Booker Prize is broadcast on the BBC and is supported by all publishers, booksellers and the print and electronic media, which promote the long-list and the short-list of finalists to the community. It is an event that engages the public and promotes literature.

“The BBC is the television partner for the Man Booker Awards; we naturally would assume the ABC, our national broadcaster, would be the appropriate partner for the PM’s literary awards,” she said.

During the negotiations, Ms Adler said she made the point that the event was scheduled for early December, a time when many ABC programs take a break.

“But the ABC’s response was that they didn’t want to broadcast the event in its entirety because it wasn’t going to make good television,” she said.

“I suggested they look at the BBC broadcast of the Man Booker announcement at Guildhall. It’s not MasterChef, we’re not talking about millions of eyeballs and we weren’t asking for it to go to air at 7pm during a ratings period.”

ABC management was prepared to run the event as a package during an episode of The Book Club, where producers would decide which comments to air from Mr Abbott’s speech.

Sky and SBS collaborated to broadcast the event live on each network.

They will do so again when this year’s awards are held next month.

The awards, established by Kevin Rudd, were used by Mr Abbott to announce a new Australian Book Council to promote reading.

At the awards night, held in Melbourne, guests on the head table included Mr Abbott, his chief-of-staff Peta Credlin, Dymocks’ managing director Steve Cox, The Herald and Weekly Times’ board chairwoman Penny Fowler and Mr Ebeid.

Ms Adler has published books by politicians from all sides of parliament, including by Mr Abbott.

The ABC did not respond to request for comment.

Read the 200 odd comments which none favour the ABC.
 
noco said:
The ABC are becoming lower by the day...The ABC is a national disgrace for not allowing the airing of the Prime Ministers speech at his own literary rewards.

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Did any other broadcasters televise the speech ?

The ABC can't broadcast every speech by every politician. The Literary Awards are hardly an event of national importance. Maybe if he was going to say something about the economy or defence, but otherwise everyone would be bored stiff.


No big deal.
 

If Andrew Bolt says it should then the ABC has a duty to obey.

Of course the LNP have literary coursing through their veins:

http://www.news.com.au/national/que...y-literary-award/story-e6frfkvr-1226317911447
 

Rumpy to the rescue again of the Fabian indoctrinated ABC.

“The ABC refused to broadcast the PM’s speech, which was going to be about seven minutes,” Ms Adler told The Weekend Australian.

“What was puzzling was the ABC’s willingness to broadcast unedited the prize-winning *writers’ speeches but not the Prime Minister of the day.



The ABC was quite willing to broadcast, unedited, the prize winning "writers" speech but the Abbott haters denied the Prime Minister the privilege....What a crumby lot they are and you and the ABC say they are not biased.

The ABC bias sticks out the dog's perverbials and they continue to do it with the full knowledge of the public..
 

Noco, it's the prize winners who did all the effing work to get their awards, the PM is just there to hand them out.

It's the prize winners night, not his, we can get a gutfull of him any time we like.
 
SirRumpole said:
Noco, it's the prize winners who did all the effing work to get their awards, the PM is just there to hand them out.

It's the prize winners night, not his, we can get a gutfull of him any time we like.
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Rumpy, you have just confirmed you are an Abbott hater and a Fabian sympathizer and you are quite happy to sit there an listen to a corrupt man who wants to be our next Prime Minister, who waffles on and then is able to contradict himself 9 seconds later....He did not know the difference between a Sub Way shop and a 7 Eleven outlet.

You have a man who who stabbed two Prime Ministers in the back within 3 years......Mate what ever you do, do not turn back on Bill Shorten......He turned his back on the Chiquita and Clean Event workers....He ( Shorten) is now trying to turn his back on workers over the CHAFTA.....I think a lot of the public have had a gutfull of the man who wants to be the next Prime Minister......A man who cannot be trusted so long as he is running around and bowing to the CFMEU.....They call and Billy Boy comes running......Even 7 or 8 leading true ALP statesmen think Shorten is a D*** head and should divorce himself from the CFMEU......This union and the TURC will be Shortens down fall.


http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/op...en-comes-running/story-fni0ffxg-1227509956379
 

But the most sinister sign of Shorten’s capture by union heavies is his campaign to smear former High Court judge Dyson Heydon, head of the royal commission into union corruption. Shorten derides this distinguished jurist as “Tony Abbott’s captain’s pick”, so biased that he must be sacked.

Heydon’s crime? To have accepted an invitation from Liberal lawyers to give an annual law lecture, only to pull out when it was sold as a Liberal function.

But on Monday Heydon turned down union demands that he resign.

He noted the same lecture was given last year by former High Court chief justice Murray Gleeson and even the ACTU’s barrister had admitted that “I don’t think anyone would dare suggest what way his political leanings bend”.

So why, asked Heydon, did unions now claim to know his own leanings? Why conclude that he couldn’t put any presumed leanings aside and judge on the facts and the law?

And how could his presumed leanings affect the job he was actually doing — making sure union officials were honest? Hadn’t the ACTU also agreed that it wasn’t saying Heydon was in fact biased?

Yet Shorten is still planning to ask the Senate on Monday to petition Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove to sack this corruption buster. Would Shorten have dared to involve his mother-in-law in this grotesque protection racket when she was governor-general?

But no wonder Shorten is so desperate. First, Heydon is investigating deals Shorten struck as head of the Australian Workers Union, which cut workers’ entitlements but had employers donate to the AWU. In one deal, an employer even paid $40,000 for Shorten’s personal benefit.

Second, Heydon is on the tail of crooked union officials, especially in the CFMEU. Already 26 union officials past and present have been recommended for charges.

Again, conservatives aren’t alone in being shocked that Shorten is protecting union crooks. Yet another former ACTU president, Martin Ferguson, says he “will not damn” a royal commission that “is potentially going to be very important in reforming the trade union movement and the Labor Party”. And Ferguson, a former Labor minister, warned that too many MPs now “wait for the phone call from the trade union heavy to tell them what to do”.

Should such a party really be trusted with the government of this country? Should Shorten?

 
Isn't the PMs Literary Award a load of cash given to Liberal Party sympathisers as judged by Liberal Party sympathisers?
 
Tisme said:
Isn't the PMs Literary Award a load of cash given to Liberal Party sympathisers as judged by Liberal Party sympathisers?
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Absolutely not! It is as impartial as the ABC :
 
The link below typifies how the Abbott haters and the ABC use twitter to expand and exaggerate their lies and propaganda.....No matter how small a piece of news, they will blow it up as some major Abbott catastrophic.....Beware!!!!!!!!!!!!...the Fabians are at work 24/7.

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/...|heading|homepage|homepage&itmt=1441418736250

Fairfax didn’t in fact have the decency to apologise in its correction:

CORRECTION: This column incorrectly asserts that the Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, was involved in the decision to launch a planned Border Force operation in Melbourne. Fairfax Media accepts unreservedly that Mr Abbott was not involved in this decision, and also accepts that Mr Abbott had no foreknowledge of the Border Force plan to stop and speak to people about their visa status.

John Lyons:

[T]he Australian Border Force ... announced in a press release ... “ABF officers will be positioned at various locations around the CBD speaking with any individual we cross paths with."…

During the next five hours, something occurred that typifies the new media world: while central Melbourne was relatively quiet, Twitter went into a frenzy: as many as 200,000 tweets were fired in all directions.

Overwhelmingly, in the world of Twitter, the blame was sheeted home to Tony Abbott who, it seems, was completely unaware of any such operation as he toured Cape York…

The ABF episode was an example of a story where there was more action at computer terminals than there was on the ground at Flinders Street — 200 to 300 protesters commanded widespread coverage.

It illustrated how Twitter is having an impact on traditional news outlets: the ABC led its Friday evening bulletin with the story and The Age led its Saturday paper with it, something it might not have done before Twitter.

For The Age website, controversial Sydney barrister Charles Waterstreet wrote ... Operation Fortitude ... was to be “the perfect storm for perfect storm troopers” and would include a collection of “hitmen,” “bouncers”, “enforcers”, and “heavies” in “an almighty once-in-a-lifetime final crackdown on anti-social behaviour to outstanding warrants”.

In case readers were not *already scared, Waterstreet wrote: “This all-streets sweep is the stuff Mussolini could only dream of.”

On top of this, Saturday’s Age carried articles headlined “Border Force plan surely a crafty feint” and “A bad case of uniformed insanity”.

But given that only an estimated 12 per cent to 17 per cent of Australians use Twitter, it’s possible that many Victorians would have been stunned when they saw the paper on Saturday morning with a headline that warned: “Abbott’s border force coming to a street near you"…

The incident put the spotlight on what can happen when social media such as Twitter runs alongside traditional media.

Even though the ABF took to Twitter to insist that the concerns of the demonstrators were unfounded — “The ABF does not and will not stop people at random in the streets” — the Twitter genie was out of the bottle…

But the problem that was evident this week — and is clearly here to stay — is that Twitter has no filters. Effectively, thousands of people acted as journalists, reporting and “re-tweeting” information that often was wrong.
 
SirRumpole said:
Of course, it's a national crime to be Abbott haters, but not Rudd, Gillard or Shorten haters ?

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The latter three deserve what they got and will get down the track

We have Abbott haters due to the good work of the Fabians.......They never let up in their harmful discredit and the naive believe the crap that they put out...As Richo says. "what ever it takes" to gain votes to convert us to Democratic socialism (Communism)
 
noco said:
The latter three deserve what they got and will get down the track
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And so will the former, who has made so many stuff ups, backflips and lies so as to make himself one of the most disliked and incompetent Prime Ministers this country has seen, as I believe will be demonstrated at the next election.
 

"We have Abbott haters due to the good work of the Fabians......."

Hater is a harsh word. I don't "hate" Abbott but I dislike him intensely. Nothing to do with The Fabians. Nothing to do with Richo. Abbott deserves all the criticism he gets and will get down the track. I see him as a sleezy pollie that will do "whatever it takes" to stay in government.

Why?.... Well it starts with the way he hounded Pauline Hanson to the point of having her Australia's first and only political prisoner. He saw her as a threat and hounded her continuously. He was particularly nasty in opposition and was the most negative opposition politician that I have ever seen. I can't even stand his swagger as he parades before the camera. In my eyes he is morally deficient. He is not the sort of person that you can disagree with but still admire. That is what is needed in a national leader. He doesn't rate even 5 on a scale of 10. The polls too seem to agree with me.
 

Pretty much as I see him even though I would see myself as right of centre.
 
I agree with both Nokia and Noco. Abbott has really only been true to form. Never liked him but was prepared to give him a chance to be a man for the times. He screwed up badly and continues to screw up.

The Fabian/left agenda, propaganda and hate politics is worse however

...and our country is going straight down the schit chute as a result.
 
wayneL said:
The Fabian/left agenda, propaganda and hate politics is worse however
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It just doesn't compare with the hate propaganda of the Right

"ditch the witch"

"Bob Brown's bitch"

"died of shame"

"put her in a chaff bag and throw her overboard"

etc, etc
 
SirRumpole said:
It just doesn't compare with the hate propaganda of the Right

"ditch the witch"

"Bob Brown's bitch"

"died of shame"

"put her in a chaff bag and throw her overboard"

etc, etc
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No there is no comparison. The right is mercurial, transparent, emotional, obvious, more like an inappropriate outburst.

The left iis calculated, sly, duplicitous,treasonous, poisonous.
 
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