One example where an article is not quiet as premium as we have been advised,Perhaps consider that some of us actually like the hard copy delivered, especially the large Weekend Australian.
I just don't get it every day of the week, and am not going to subscribe just for the occasional article I might miss on the days I don't see the whole paper.
Noco has recently taken the trouble to copy and paste the entire article to which he is referring which is much appreciated. Hope this doesn't infringe any copyright?
The government was successful in reintroducing TPV's. They were then subsequently disallowed by the Labor/Green majority in the Senate.LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER:The move follows the failure of the Government's bid earlier this week to reintroduce temporary protection visas, which give would-be refugees short-term protection without granting them asylum. That was blocked by Labor and the Greens.
Boat numbers don't add up
Immigration Minister Scott Morrison not telling the full story on asylum seeker arrivals
Yes most comentary today hasn't mentioned the cost of FTTP. WeirdAn interesting insight on Tony Delroy's Nightlife show this evening (first hour).
The essential point was that if you listen (or read) to something enough times, you'll be inclined to believe it regardless of the quality of the source.
On ABC radio, I heard how much extra the Coalition's NBN plan was now estimated to cost on the 6pm news, PM and the 7pm news. No mention though of the dollar figure on how much extra Labor's FTTP version will cost in any of the above.
I always like to read through the comments after the opinion articles.
ABC comments are extended researched, factual and informative. Discussions tend to be civil except for the odd troll.
Liberal Daily News comments are in the main with little exception are angry rhetorical rants with no factual base and really quite boring.
Just an observation.
Of course if I want the facts I always check with the ABC.
Prior to the election, the ABC had practically nothing on the 50,000+ boat arrivals. Since the coalition got in they now keep a tally and don't they broadcast every arrival several times if just one boat arrives?
It's a real problem the ABC isn't it ? It offers intelligent programs on Science, Arts, History, the Environment, childrens shows. The drama and comedy from the BBC are excellent
It doesn't (generally) have a host of vapid, ridiculously overhyped dancing/cooking/reality programs.
In the current affairs area it is one of the very few stations that will challenge politicians from all parties who try to offer up half/complete untruths.
The producers doesn't have to keep an eye on owners who want their particular projects supported or at least not attacked. And it doesn't have to be wary of offending big advertisers who would pull out their money if the wrong stories are covered.
And finally I don't have to put up with myriads of mind numbing ads that destroy any semblance of continuity in programs and turn the brain into mush.
Go figure..
THE ABC will undertake a series of sweeping reviews of its content after chairman Jim Spigelman conceded the public broadcaster needed to address allegations of bias and rebalance the airtime it gave to left-wing issues such as gay marriage, to focus more on mainstream concerns such as electricity pricing.
IFocus, when something agrees with your political bias you are likely to see it as fact. If the ABC were as biased to the coalition as they are to labor/greens, you would not be happy.
Can you accept that so many people see the political bias of the ABC to the left as blatantly obvious. Just because it confirms your own bias doesn't mean there is none.
If Abbott were the centre of something like the AWU scandal, I think there is a high possibility that the ABC would have broadcast the court case on Monday several times a day and still be going. But next to nothing on this from the ABC.
Prior to the election, the ABC had practically nothing on the 50,000+ boat arrivals. Since the coalition got in they now keep a tally and don't they broadcast every arrival several times if just one boat arrives?
How can you possibly say there is no bias? That's just two examples. There have been many more like Insiders where it has been reported there might be one guest from the coalition against the rest from labor/greens.
ABC has many good shows that are not political and it would be a shame to see them go, but something needs to be done about the clear political agenda that seems to be coming from the ABC which is paid for by ALL Australians. It should represent ALL Australians. For example, they should have been reporting ALL boat arrivals for the last six years and not just started now. Where is the consistency for ALL Australians?
Quite frankly the ABC broadcasts to community's at large which the right wing is never involved in other than to strip money off so I guess its always going to be called left wing as there is a certain social conciousness about its programming some thing that will never exist under a Coalition government or from its supporters.(not trying to include at you of course)
So how many of your rentals do you lease out to the needy ?
A bit catty, but I hate chardonay socialists.
The political middle ground is not screaming bias against the ABC but certainly those with vested interests and political agendas do.
One of my clients is a freelance journo and from knowing her, she is about as middle ground as you can get. Her opinion is that some sections of the ABC (not all) are most certainly very left wing dominated and ergo, biased.
It's a grim Christmas here in the ABC trenches. Ordnance whistles overhead, and the whine of the air-raid sirens has become a normal feature of daily life.
One minute it's Miranda Devine strafing Behind The News. The next, it's a devastating artillery assault centring on the fact that Kerry O'Brien was paid - PAID! - to do his interviews with Paul Keating.
The column started as a perfectly ordinary light-to-medium ABC-gumming on the usual theme of organisational leftist propaganda and generalised wickedness. But then, this: "Even the cartoon character Peppa Pig pushes a weird feminist line that would be closer to the hearts of Labor's Handbag Hit Squad than the preschool audience it is aimed at."
This is a serious allegation. Of all the programs watched on the ABC's iView platform, Peppa Pig is the most popular by a long straw. Between January and November this year, the show was watched 25 million times. That is correct, 25 million times; impressive, even when you factor in the possibility that several million of those might have been Mr Akerman, monitoring the cartoon piglet round the clock for signs of latent man-hate.
http://blogs.news.com.au/dailyteleg...lytelegraph/comments/abc_bias_plan_laughable/
...Far better is the Ray Evans solution, to decentralise the ABC by splitting it into competing state organisations.
That would disempower Left-Green inner-city elites who control the culture and help the ABC fulfill its charter to “reflect the cultural diversity of the Australian community”...
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