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The ABC News 24 sports presenter 'Bridge', tells us this morning we should take more notice of the Socceroos achievements.

Which of course we should.

But poor 'Bridge' can't pronounce the names Postecoglou, Fornaroli (of Melb City) or Rogic.

Only on the ABC.
 

She is probably a tea lady given a "wish" while the regulars are on holidays.

 

I resent our taxpayer monies being spent advocating for soccer. It's a divisive game that attracts low grade people who seem to be looking for a reason to get aggressive. And it seems there has been a rise in violence in AFL and NRL crowds since soccer became organised ....which means deads41ts are leaking into those sports too like disease.
 
With the new broom, Michelle Guthrie, making some sweeping changes to the ABC, our dear friends from the left may at long last lose control of their Fabian propaganda machine.

There are some unhappy little Vegemites whose wings are about to be clipped and not before time....

Get rid of QandA with Tony Jones and Insiders with Bary Cassidy who are so blatantly biased to the socialists.


http://www.theaustralian.com.au/bus...e/news-story/56d60adf68416ad73e48c2e1da89b506
 

:sleeping:

[Joe, any chance of a Yawn emoticon ? ]
 
Behind paywall. But not before time.

The great Germaine herself is on Q & A tonight. But I wouldn't count on her toeing the ABC party line, she occasionally makes a bit of sense these days. There'll be no green landscape-pattern jumper or coiffed sisterhood hair, as we saw on Offsiders last Sunday morning.

Waleed spent a good amount of time correcting this panellist, who still managed to blurt out that The Footy Show is sexist. No examples were quoted, nor (on the ABC) required. Probably miffed she didn't get the gig over Rebecca Maddern. And Waleed had probably given up by this stage.

Not that I'm any fan of The Footy Show anyway.
 
SirRumpole said:
:sleeping:

[Joe, any chance of a Yawn emoticon ? ]
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Poor old Rumpy.....He is not happy things are changing in the ABC......But it will be for the best Rumpy....A change is like a holiday....sit back and enjoy it.

Hopefully we we now get some balance in ABC reporting.
 
SirRumpole said:
I doubt it noco, Barrie Cassidy has had two government Ministers in a row on Insiders. I think he's a Liberal stooge.

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Cassidy likes to have Liberals Ministers on his show so he can grill them in the hope they make a mistake or that they are in conflict with Turnbull.......It is like a GOTHCA event......Of course when he has a Labor Shadow Minister on board, he gives them an easy ride.......It then becomes like a LOVE IN.

Do you get my drift?

It is the unbalanced panel that gets up my gizzet...Most times it is 3 from the left...Best at times it is 2 to 1.
 
Tony Jones owned by Malcolm Turnbull.

(from BOLT)

"
When Mr Turnbull noted that Labor planned to run higher deficits over the next four years, [Q&A host Tony] Jones interrupted.

“They would say ”” I have to jump in here ”” “ Jones said.

“Of course you do. You have got to defend the Labor Party, Tony,” Mr Turnbull responded.

“By raising tax revenue,” Jones continued. “By raising tax revenue. That’s how they say they’re going to do it.”

Mr Turnbull offered another pointed response, albeit with a smile: “I’ve never heard them explain it quite as well as you. You should do more work for them. You’re a very good spokesman for the ALP. Anyway, there you go.”
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The Prime Minister knows that the ABC is biased to the Labor party.
 

Tony Jones gave Bill Shorten a much harder time than he gave Malcolm Turnbull.
 

It was just unsophisticated baiting. Mal could do with a few hours on Brawl Hall to learn how it's done.

I think the ABC is more Greens than Labor and I bet there are plenty of Richard Carltons alive and kicking in there too. Malcolm is merely morphing into the Abbott stable of blame and attack to distract and deflect.

Tony will never get owned by someone of Malcolm's calibre, especially with Tony's imbedded celebrity status. it would take a Keating or Howard to give him pause.
 
Tony Jones once again has shown his true colors on QandA with the invitation of Lebanese born Khaled Elomar who is a prospective Muslim radical, currently under the eye of the of AFP, willing to express his hatred for Australia, Israel and the US.

Last Monday's episode was a pure set up to ostracize and belittle Pauline Hanson.


http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opi...a/news-story/ecb3cd51338249f9d268615dbb8447d3

They sure can pick ’em. We know the ABC’s flagship public forum, Q&A, tends to select panellists more for heat than light — which is a great pity given the paucity of intelligent debate in national affairs. Yet orchestrated set-ups and poor vetting of questioners are what really undermine its credibility. Despite production staffing that some commercial media can only dream of, Q&A is incapable of the most basic Google and social media checks on its questioners or it ignores what it finds for the sake of shock value.

This week’s show seemed designed to harangue One Nation leader Pauline Hanson on her return to the Senate. Host Tony Jones, panellists and, it seems, the studio audience were there not to discuss serious issues of Islamist extremism, Muslim immigration and community integration but to mock Ms Hanson’s simplistic solutions. One of the orchestrated confrontations came when Khaled Elomar asked a question invoking the concerns of his 11-year-old son. He asked if Ms Hanson was motivated by “hate, fear or ignorance” and said he feared for his son’s life.

Yet Mr Elomar’s social media posts are replete with hateful attacks on Ms Hanson, government and Israel. In one post he shows a picture of Ms Hanson in a kitchen and urges her to “go upper cut” herself. He included a mock-up of her in a hijab fronting “One Islamation” and posted a picture of Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie, saying she should wear a “niqab 24/7” because she was “Far Too Ugly”. Mr Elomar said Ms Hanson’s rise had made life in Sydney’s Cronulla more difficult. “Almost every day I get called a Muslim pig because of you,” he said to Ms Hanson. Yet his posts regularly attack Israel, the US and Ms Hanson. The social media posts were available for the ABC to check. They included conspiracies about the CIA and terrorism, and abuse such as “F..k the Australian government”.

There have been many reviews into the ABC, even a specific review of Q&A, there have been restructures and even a new managing director, but the public broadcaster continues on its merry, unaccountable, green-Left way, as often undermining as facilitating sensible national debate. It is sad.

 

Why do you take umbrage at programs that don't follow you politics Noco? Surely you would be the first to champion democracy and freedom of opinions? Pauline can handle herself and we all knew the audience would be primed to give her a hard time, but didn't you notice over the hour how less and less noisy the audience became .... I think she won some support for the novel idea of One Ocker Nation Under the Trinity God.
 

The ABC is paid for with tax payer dollars and should be impartial.....How can it be impartial when it is controlled by Labor and the Greens?

Labor and the Greens use it to spread their lies and propaganda and it is time the Government brought them into line to follow their charter or else get rid of those who disregard the ABC charter.....This all part of Socialism...Control the media and you control the people.

It has nothing to do with me taking umbrage or my politics and yes, I champion freedom of speech and the true values in life but the ABC are just ignoring the charter.
 
Tisme said:
I think she won some support for the novel idea of One Ocker Nation Under the Trinity God.
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She did ok, but the idea of bias is absurd.

If politicians can't answer hard questions then they are not worth their salt.
 

If impartial means censorship, I doubt any ABC charter would incorporate that principle
 
Tisme said:
If impartial means censorship, I doubt any ABC charter would incorporate that principle
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Maybe if they get some balance in the ABC things might be different.

While there is some 41% Greens and 31% Labor journos you can only expect the same.
 
Virginia had guest Steve Silberman on this morning to talk about autism and bothered with his homosexuality instead. I wonder if Hugh Jackman would be asked if he was in the seat?
 
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