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ABC Breakfast surprisingly not mentioning that Margaret Court is still 4 games ahead of Roger and she's been out in the lead for 48 years, so it's not like they don't know.
 
ABC currently dedicating more coverage to Abbott's sister's "marriage" than less important things like the destruction of habitat, of our heritage, of our leisure, of our morality, of the family, etc.

While our children are being turned into drones to serve a global kumbaya, we (them) are feeding on a diet of shallow soapyesque news ourselves.
 
Tisme said:
ABC currently dedicating more coverage to Abbott's sister's "marriage" than less important things like the destruction of habitat, of our heritage, of our leisure, of our morality, of the family, etc.

While our children are being turned into drones to serve a global kumbaya, we (them) are feeding on a diet of shallow soapyesque news ourselves.
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And another half hour will be wasted on Australian Lesbian Story tonight. :eek::vomit:
 
The ABC has gone Chinese.

Bloody hell, do the Chinese have to have a finger in Our ABC ??

On their online news page

Click the link and you get a whole news story in Chinese.

http://www.abc.net.au/chinese/2018-03-02/australian-zombie-economy/9498932
 
SirRumpole said:
The ABC has gone Chinese.

Bloody hell, do the Chinese have to have a finger in Our ABC ??

On their online news page

Click the link and you get a whole news story in Chinese.

http://www.abc.net.au/chinese/2018-03-02/australian-zombie-economy/9498932
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The article title: [Analysis] Is there a "zombie economy" in Australia that runs the risk of economic collapse?
 
bellenuit said:
The article title: [Analysis] Is there a "zombie economy" in Australia that runs the risk of economic collapse?
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This is a link to the article of a similar title in English, but I just wonder about the reason for printing it in Chinese also. What about Russian or Nordic ? I just think that we a pandering to a certain nationality for some reason. And how do we know the articles are the same ? They may as well write it in code.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-...my-sleepwalking-into-danger-gfc-china/9492868
 
Copy and paste the text to a translation website. Maybe you missed what happened in John Alexander's by-election. High level of chinese speakers, some don't know english and a lot of the election material was produced in mandarin. I'm sure if you look for various pictures in John's campaign office at the time you'll see them.
 
Driving the last nails in:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2...tories-michelle-guthrie-says?CMP=share_btn_tw

ABC news should cover more human interest stories, Michelle Guthrie says


Managing director endorses review which calls on ABC bulletins to cover less political and national news

Amanda Meade

Fri 16 Mar 2018 13.46 AEDTLast modified on Fri 16 Mar 2018 15.22 AEDT

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ABC managing director Michelle Guthrie wants news bulletins to cover more hip pocket issues. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP
The ABC’s main television and radio news bulletins should cover more human interest stories, local news and hip pocket issues, the managing director Michelle Guthrie has said.

Guthrie was endorsing an internal editorial review which found the 7pm ABC TV news and the 7am radio news bulletins assumed public broadcasting audiences were more interested in major national and international events than they were in their own community.

“To characterise it crudely, an ABC bulletin might leave an anxious viewer sleepless over global instability, while Channel 7 will leave them more worried about crime or violence at the end of their own street,” the Diversity of Broadcast News Stories review found.

Led by editorial policies director Alan Sunderland, the review of eight weeks of broadcasts asked whether the ABC was failing to design a bulletin for the widest possible audience due to unconscious cultural bias.

“The question is not whether we should also be running footage of individual house fires or escapee animals, but whether there are some thoughtful, unique ways we could add more local, human interest and hip pocket stories to our coverage, possibly through better use of our regional resources,” the review said.

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A pie-chart showing the subject matter of ABC bulletins in Sydney. Photograph: supplied
The review did not find any breaches of editorial policy in the ABC stories and found that even the shortest of news items was balanced. Across all the broadcasters sport and weather was a priority.

However, the ABC’s story selections were often substantially different from those made by the commercial newsrooms, in particular there were many more international stories on the ABC and SBS than there were on channels Seven, Nine and Ten.

The breakdown of the commercial and public broadcasters’ bulletins found the most space given to federal politics (16%) on the ABC; international politics (23%) on SBS; general interest (23%) on Seven; crime and sport (18%) on Nine and general interest (16%) on Ten.

“The ABC is also much less likely to cover celebrity news, human interest stories, including minor mishaps, or to include stories solely on the basis of spectacular (or sometimes not that spectacular) footage,” the review found.

The review recommended ABC journalists spend more time talking to everyday Australians about health expenses, public transport, wages and child care and increase the number of general interest stories “without trivialising or ‘dumbing down’” the bulletins.

“Handled well, this could become a defining and promotable feature of our bulletins, especially on TV but also on longer radio bulletins. This is already happening on occasion to good effect, but should be expanded.”

Regional reporters should be used more to localise state news bulletins and make them more directly relevant to the community.

“These recommendations do not amount to wholesale change, but rather to strategic means of tweaking the mix of content here and there, or to shift the treatment of stories (away from the political and/or national) to increase the relevance and usefulness of news at a local level while maintaining our strong commitment to reporting the issues and events that matter.”

In the introduction Guthrie said the review, which is the 15th since the board introduced a series of audits under former ABC chairman James Spigelman in 2013, was a useful reminder of the importance of the ABC’s impartiality in story selection.

“The recommendations suggested to improve our diversity should be prioritised by our teams namely to cover economic/hip pocket issues more often and in a different way; drawing on our regional and rural reporters for more human interest stories; and for our local news bulletins to be even more local and community based,” Guthrie said.

The background to the review was to ask whether the make-up of the ABC’s bulletins needed a rethink and whether the story selection was adequate to equip audiences to make up their own minds.

“The ABC is frequently accused of overlooking systemic gaps in its news coverage,” the review said. “This criticism takes many forms, but tends to coalesce over the proposition that the left-wing bias allegedly prevalent among ABC staff leads them towards stories which accord with a world view which is both progressive and ‘elite’. Another common and related criticism levelled at the ABC is that it ignores the ‘cost of living’ stories important to ordinary Australians in favour of progressive social causes.”

Guthrie and Sunderland will face a second round of questions about their handling of the Emma Alberici tax stories at an additional Senate estimates hearing next month.
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If they are going down fewer social justice roads, that would be good.


hip pocket stories are common to everyone not just minorities.
 
TheirABC needs to be unfunded and removed.
Absolutely repulsive.

From Andrew Bolt:

The ABC is meant by law to be impartial, because it is taxpayer-funded. It is also meant to be culturally enriching. Instead we get foul-mouthed "comedians" ranting how an Australian Conservative politician and former SAS soldier is a "c..t".

How does ABC boss Michelle Guthrie excuse this?


 
dutchie said:
TheirABC needs to be unfunded and removed.
Absolutely repulsive.

From Andrew Bolt:

The ABC is meant by law to be impartial, because it is taxpayer-funded. It is also meant to be culturally enriching. Instead we get foul-mouthed "comedians" ranting how an Australian Conservative politician and former SAS soldier is a "c..t".

How does ABC boss Michelle Guthrie excuse this?


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Here’s another 4 letter word starting with C
 
dutchie said:
From Andrew Bolt:

The ABC is meant by law to be impartial, because it is taxpayer-funded. It is also meant to be culturally enriching. Instead we get foul-mouthed "comedians" ranting how an Australian Conservative politician and former SAS soldier is a "c..t".

How does ABC boss Michelle Guthrie excuse this?
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https://www.acma.gov.au/

Television complaints
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If you see something on TV that you think breaches a code:

  1. Complain directly to the station

  2. If you don’t get a response within 60 days, or aren't satisfied with the response, you can complain to the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA).
The ACMA cannot accept complaints about the quality or scheduling of programs, the content of advertisements, or advertising on the ABC.

If you see something that you think breaches a licence condition or a standard, you can make a complaint directly to the ACMA. Standards applicable to television include:

  1. Children’s television standards

  2. Anti-siphoning rules
Not sure where to address your complaint? Find out more .

You can access the broadcasting complaints form via the ACMA website


Pages: 5,6,7,8


Standards:
  • 4.1 Gather and present news and information with due impartiality.
  • 4.2 Present a diversity of perspectives so that, over time, no significant strand of thought or belief within the community is knowingly excluded or disproportionately represented.
  • 4.3 Do not state or imply that any perspective is the editorial opinion of the ABC. The ABC takes no editorial stance other than its commitment to fundamental democratic principles including the rule of law, freedom of speech and religion, parliamentary democracy and equality of opportunity.
  • 4.4 Do not misrepresent any perspective.
  • 4.5 Do not unduly favour one perspective over another.
Also, parts 5 (Honest and Fair Dealing), 7 (Harm and Offence) and 8 (Children and young people) should get a look at.

I tried to put all links in green above....
 
I object to taxpayer-funding the Steve Vizard Show.

It presents as light skit comedy. It is anything but. Nothing but an offensive juvenile anti-conservative rant, from beginning to end.

Then there's The Drum, which presents as a current affairs program. But The Drum presents every news item through the prism of Left-wing politics. It is news re-interpreted.

Where are the centrist versions of these shows on the ABC?
 
Logique said:
I object to taxpayer-funding the Steve Vizard Show.

It presents as light skit comedy. It is anything but. Nothing but an offensive juvenile anti-conservative rant, from beginning to end.

Then there's The Drum, which presents as a current affairs program. But The Drum presents every news item through the prism of Left-wing politics. It is news re-interpreted.

Where are the centrist versions of these shows on the ABC?
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It isn't going to happen, the media is full of chardonay socialists, who smuggly sit back and bleat how unfortunate the poor are, while sitting on their balconies overlooking the harbour.
 
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