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The ABC reporters will end up losing us an icon, on behalf of the unions.IMO

Why can't they just present unbiased news, what they were renowned for.

Who cares if it is bad for Labor or Liberal, as long as it is factual and not embelished with personal bent.

That would be nice.:xyxthumbs

If they can't provide that service, it isn't a service. Just a public funded agenda.:eek:
 
The ABC has featured this shot of Abbott looking sly and plastered it over the fron page of their web site, I'm developing a genuine dislike for these bludgers.

This was deliberate absolutely no doubt about it.
 

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Looks like Tony Jones has been sin-binned for the rest of the year (or has sin-binned himself).

Last night the "Tony Rabbit" faux pas, tonight Jones announced he was taking the rest of the year off ... interesting!
 
Chris45 said:
Looks like Tony Jones has been sin-binned for the rest of the year (or has sin-binned himself).

Last night the "Tony Rabbit" faux pas, tonight Jones announced he was taking the rest of the year off ... interesting!
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Yes that was sudden and unexpected,
Couldn't he just be a bit impartial without needing to be taken off air?
I expect there was an argument and his ego took over.
 
sptrawler said:
The ABC reporters will end up losing us an icon, on behalf of the unions.IMO

Why can't they just present unbiased news, what they were renowned for.

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When were they renowned for this? At least since the seventies they've leaned noticeably to the left.
 
Chris45 said:
Looks like Tony Jones has been sin-binned for the rest of the year (or has sin-binned himself).

Last night the "Tony Rabbit" faux pas, tonight Jones announced he was taking the rest of the year off ... interesting!
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Did he fall or was he pushed? .....As GG stated, "there will more to go".

Tony Jones has been blatantly biased towards the Labor Party for some time and I not surprised he has seen the writing on the wall..
 
noco said:
Did he fall or was he pushed? .....As GG stated, "there will more to go".

Tony Jones has been blatantly biased towards the Labor Party for some time and I not surprised he has seen the writing on the wall..
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I bet he was told to back off and didn't like it so stepped down for a while.
 
MrBurns said:
I bet he was told to back off and didn't like it so stepped down for a while.
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He may have been joking about the "Rabbit" nickname with someone off air and then let it drop in a Freudian slip and I suspect it was suggested that it was time to take his long service leave. He said he'll be back in the chair next year.

As a leftist ABC interviewer, he hasn't been too bad and certainly not as bad as Kerry O'Brien became before he was switched to 4 Corners soon after his obnoxious "gotcha" interview with Tony Abbott over the NBN Mbps and peak speed stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWAN5zkEaok

I bet O'Brien studied all day to get his head around Mbps and peak speed and he thought he could nail Abbott on the NBN technical details and I thought Abbott acquitted himself reasonably well considering.

Maybe the ABC will recruit David Marr again to fill the Lateline chair in Jones' absence ... or better still David Marr and Andrew Bolt co-hosting. :rolleyes:
 
drsmith said:
Interesting take on the ABC and Clive Palmer,
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7.30 last night featured Clive lining up his new senators-elect in a comical stilted rehearsed performance where they introduced one another.
Each, including new recruit, Ricky Muir whose connections now to his original party seem somewhat tenuous, nervously delivered their lines. A couple of journalists attempted questions of individuals but Clive quickly put a stop to that nonsense!
They're a joke, but no doubt a dangerous one with the potential to cause considerable mischief, not on grounds of genuine policy, but in order to avenge Clive's old antagonisms.
 
Julia said:
A couple of journalists attempted questions of individuals but Clive quickly put a stop to that nonsense!
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I don't blame him! The media attack dogs would tear those four greenhorns apart if given the chance. I imagine Clive will be tightly managing his little flock as they move forward and there will be much rehearsing of lines in the party room before they make their media appearances. I wonder if any of them will make lone appearances on 7:30 or Lateline.

I can see Joh Bjelke Petersen's influence in Clive's media style and I wonder when we'll hear the first, "Now don't you worry about that"? :D
 
I'm sure it didn't take Janet Albrechtson's article for anyone other than the most devout fan to feel pretty scornful about Barrie Cassidy offering the odious Slipper such an uncritical platform for his whining.
I don't know how Mr Cassidy isn't overcome by embarrassment at his own performance.
 
Julia said:
I'm sure it didn't take Janet Albrechtson's article for anyone other than the most devout fan to feel pretty scornful about Barrie Cassidy offering the odious Slipper such an uncritical platform for his whining.
I don't know how Mr Cassidy isn't overcome by embarrassment at his own performance.
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Julia, Have you forgotten the findings of my peer reviewed PhD thesis "The Impossibility of Objectivity in Leftist Thought and Ideology"? It has now been accepted into scientific canon and known in rarefied intellectual circles as "wayneL's Law".

Ipso facto, there is 0% probability that Cassidy feels any sort of embarrassment at all, or any recognition by a large proportion of ABC devotees of any academic impropriety on his part. :rolleyes:
 
wayneL said:
"The Impossibility of Objectivity in Leftist Thought and Ideology"
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To get them to start reading it, you might need a more politically correct title. ;)

"The Challenge of Objectivity in Social Progressive Perception and Context"
 
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