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Now this is how the ABC should be.

An excellent episode of Q&A on euthanasia. Good panel. Good questions. Polite and minimal interruptions, even from Tony Jones.

No bias!!

Andrew Denton was brilliant.

Dr Rodney Syme - brave and compassionate.
 
Very impressed with Denton last night.

He might be heading for "figurehead" territory, along with Dr Phillip Nitszchke.
 
In Australia you can have a long drawn out euthanasia experience via palliative care but your not allowed to have a short euthanasia experience even if you want one. Crazy.
 
More political bias by the ABC....they just cannot help themselves with this Global Warming crap.

They are still persisting with that Flannery dud and other cohorts who are not climate scientists.

Why didn't the ABC invite some skeptics onto the program just to have another opinion and a good debate after all the Alarmist are now in the minority.

The Paris summit will be another dud event with no international agreement being reached.



http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/...ents/the_abc_a_soapbox_for_warming_alarmists/
 
MrBurns said:
Jones has a hard job and does it well IMO
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I agree. I don't think most people realise how hard a job it is to keep the discussion going while giving everyone a fair say but not letting them ramble on, and also deciding when to invite more audience participation.

Having seen Tony Jones on Lateline with his incisive interviews on any number of subjects, I think he's one of the best TV journos around.
 
Is anyone else getting peeved at the obvious bias in favour of the LNP?


I see Kerry O'Brien has pulled the plug on his regular activities at the ABC ....... another guy vilified for being a professional journalist who doesn't take fools easily.
 
Tisme said:
Is anyone else getting peeved at the obvious bias in favour of the LNP?


I see Kerry O'Brien has pulled the plug on his regular activities at the ABC ....... another guy vilified for being a professional journalist who doesn't take fools easily.
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The ABC has swung to the LNP somewhat, probably due to the fact that Turnbull is more kindly disposed to it than Abbott was.
 
The ABC has not changed particularly in regards to Climate Change and Border protection.

They are desperately trying to white wash the government over kids in detention again.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opi...ink-out-of-step-with-reality/story-fn8qlm5e-1

RN Breakfast host Fran Kelly famously told us she was “firmly of the view that a price on carbon is the way forward” and that “we have to get into this”. Rather than admonish her, we should applaud her honesty. (She later said she regretted sharing her political views so openly.) The ABC’s charter obligations demand its presenters and journalists are objective; so they have to pretend to be political eunuchs. It doesn’t work. We knew from listening to Kelly day in and day out that she is fully on board with the ABC groupthink of climate alarmism and the Greens/Labor prescription that says extra costs in Australia can somehow contribute to a global solution.

Insiders host Barrie Cassidy wrote in The Drum on Friday that the change in prime minister had not altered our treatment of asylum-seekers — “the government is still capable of being cruel to the children of asylum-seekers”. He said this even though asylum-seekers are no longer arriving, and are being ushered only in one direction by this government, out of detention rather than into it. Still, we are not surprised either, that Cassidy subscribes to the ABC groupthink against strong border protection.

“On that issue,” he wrote, “we remain an international embarrassment.” One person’s exemplar — secure borders, no deaths at sea, removing people from detention, and a record refugee intake — can be another’s embarrassment.

ABC groupthink is prevalent across other issues — universal embrace of indigenous recognition, suspicion about national security laws, support for gay marriage and greater concern about Islamophobia than Islamism — but let’s designate global warming and border security as the standout issues. After all, they have been pivotal domestic political issues for the past decade or more, playing crucial roles in election and leadership results. And the ABC view on them has been wrong.

Soft border protection has proven disastrous while stronger measures have worked. While the climate has failed to match frightening models, carbon pricing has been and gone, direct action has done what was intended, and the ABC still hasn’t bothered to inform us about the globally inconsequential nature of Australia’s policy decisions.

Besides, for an organisation that is supposed to reflect the plurality of community views, it is worth noting that the ABC’s preference for soft borders and a price on carbon is out of alignment with the majority of Australians as expressed in opinion polls and election results.

Media Watch Watch would like to offer a public service for those determined to demonstrate the ABC is not ruled by groupthink. This column will list those journalists, hosts and producers from the broadcaster who are willing to publicly endorse Operation Sovereign Borders and offshore processing.

The same offer applies to those prepared to endorse Direct Action and the current emissions reduction and renewable energy targets. These positions are the prevailing policies at the moment, they are working, and they won endorsement from mainstream voters, so it wouldn’t be too much to expect strong support among Aunty’s crew. Drop MWW a line — it will be a pleasure to trumpet your mainstream views.

Another observation occurred after reading Cassidy in The Drum on the Mal Brough affair. “Why has Malcolm Turnbull not heard the deafening alarm bells around the Special Minister of State, Mal Brough?” he asked. “It’s troubling enough that he failed to see the risks in bringing Brough into the ministry even though the James Ashby/Peter Slipper affair was still to be resolved. But not understanding that the situation for Brough had this week dangerously escalated brings his judgment further into doubt.” Fair enough; Cassidy saw a politician digging in during a scandal, so sounded alarm bells for his boss.

But check out Cassidy on the same site more than three years ago when former Labor MP Craig Thomson was digging in against corruption allegations. “The politicians and the media first heard the alarm bells ringing early one morning in October 1997, when senator Nick Sherry was found on the floor of his Canberra flat in a pool of blood, having tried to take his own life.” Cassidy was ringing alarm bells not for the prime minister or government but for the pressure being placed on the Thomson. “Now — 2012 — the alarm bells are ringing again,” he wrote. “Liberal MP Mal Washer, a doctor, told the ABC’s 7.30 this week that MPs had a duty of care to make sure that former Labor MP Craig Thomson ‘is not at risk of self-harm’.”

Cassidy’s concern, no doubt, was heartfelt — most journalists would have discussed similar concerns over issues and people they have covered. Friends and colleagues need to be aware of personal vulnerabilities when people are under intense pressure. It goes without saying we all want people to exhibit resilience and keep their trials in perspective. But political journalists can’t be expected to make judgments about personal wellbeing; perhaps it is better for them to stick to the political issues and hold everyone accountable to the same standards.
 
SirRumpole said:
The ABC has swung to the LNP somewhat, probably due to the fact that Turnbull is more kindly disposed to it than Abbott was.
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The fact that interviewers can engage Malcolm in conversation is probably a factor, Tony's rhetoric and 3 word slogans didn't make for good viewing.
 
Now they've got Malcolm's 100-word slogans :D

For balance, Aunty has hired Ms Harmer and Ms Bowditch.

Watch out Lefties, these two will chase you down all your foxholes!
 
It's official, the ABC is not bias. :)

ABC review said:
A review of ABC panel program Q&A has found former prime minister Tony Abbott’s criticism that the program is a “lefty lynch mob” is not substantiated, but warned that host Tony Jones should be careful not to “overreach” in his questioning.

The editorial review, commissioned by the ABC, was conducted by television journalist Ray Martin and former SBS managing director Shaun Brown.
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http://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2015/12/17/qa-lefty-lynch-mob-review/
 
Tisme said:
Unnecessary expenditure in the first place. It must be nice for them these days not having to respond to juvenile demands from a prime minister.
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Nice work if you can get it. Get paid to say "Nothing to see here folks, move along"

Ray and Shaun must have been watching po..... Well, they couldn't have been watching Q&A.
 
drsmith said:
I remember Ray's public commentary from July.
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At the risk of spawning a "year that was" vine, I too remember Ray's extraordinary foresight, his appointment and continued support for his role by the then Prime Minister. I also remember some bloke who thought he was important as Australian of the Year throwing virtual spears at fans of another team .... polarised nation along political and social lines it seems.
 
“Play School is not the place for the ABC to run agendas.

Parents should be able to trust their toddlers to the ABC’s Play School program without worrying if they are being exposed to controversial political and social agendas,

“Parents should not be forced to explain to little children how it is that two men come to have a baby

Play School yesterday announced it would feature two men raising a child in its popular Through the Windows segment.

“It is disappointing that the ABC is seeking to impose rainbow politics on toddlers when millions of their parents do not agree with redefining marriage in law.

“Millions of Australians also do not agree that two men should be allowed to deliberately deprive a child of its mother. This does not mean two men can not love a child, of course they can. The issue is whether or not it is right for the child to be deprived of its mother and whether this should be taught as ethical to toddlers.

“The ABC should also not assume that producing children through harvested eggs and a rented or donated woman’s womb to meet the desires of two men is a public good.

“Unsupervised watching of Play School was always considered safe by generations of parents. Now parents can’t be sure if their children are going to be exposed to contested social and political agendas.

The Australian people will be deciding whether or not marriage (and with it parenting) is redefined in a national plebiscite after the federal election, should the Coalition win.

“Many parents will be disappointed with this, particularly as this is a taxpayer-funded program that should refrain from pushing confusing adult messaging to our children.

“Parent’s shouldn’t be forced to have adult conversations about sexuality and bioethics with their kids at such a young age and it certainly should not be the government broadcaster raising the subject with them.”

The nature of the ABC as a taxpayer-funded broadcaster meant that it should maintain its objectivity on political issues, particularly when matters crucial to the definition of marriage and family are subject to a national vote.

“ABC Kids in particular should be particularly sensitive to what it shows to young impressionable minds and refrain from introducing contested social concepts into their children’s programing


Play School segment to feature gay fathers
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/play-school-segment-to-feature-gay-fathers-20160204-gmlko0.html
 
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