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Logique said:
Too many General Chat posts from me this weekend.

However could I say, not every part of the ABC is bad. The ABC radio Classic FM - Classic 100: Baroque and Before is running this weekend, it's ..beyond description. Link: http://www.abc.net.au/classic/classic100/

What would our lives be without this national ABC classical music station. Week days Classic Breakfast with Emma Ayres, this excellent program has to be heard to be believed. When you hear the Kookaburras call at daybreak, turn on your radio, it will be Emma with some classical music.

No I don't work for the ABC. But you'll see me on the barricades if any of these programs are attacked.
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Yes there are some good programs on ABC and nobody can deny it......I like Macca on a Sunday....have listened to him for years.
 
Duckman#72 said:
Gullibility and this all pervasive creeping sense of entitlement that is washing over the country, and the reluctance to take responsibility for actions.

We want the Government to take control of the finances, but we don't want any negative effects.

We want the exploding Centrelink payments reined in, but we don't want the pain.

We point the finger at the whinging Greeks and their austerity measures, but won't move in that direction ourselves.

We want the best medical services, but we demand they be free.

Such an environment is tailor-made for someone such as Palmer who just jumps from wave of dissent, to the next wave of dissent, "fighting the good fight" for the "battlers and underdogs".

He is the perfect role model for the disenchanted, as Clive doesn't believe he needs to be accountable to anybody either.

Duckman
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+1 hear hear and so say all of us......well a majority of us.
 
So agree, Logique. Even the measured tones of Classic FM presenters, along with the interesting stories they provide about the music, calm the soul of those of us driven to despair by the political machinations of politicians and media sensationalists.

I love Julia Lester on Drive. That woman has a voice which would melt the hardest heart.:)
 
According to the unbiased ABC
The evil of Unions and Gillard --

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According to the Department of Communications yesterday, media rules are being reviewed er being cleared for Murdoch.
Not only will the rules for public TV stations be relaxed allowing foreign owned News to own Foxtel, 10 (or 9), newspapers and radio stations but the cross ownership rules for the country will similarly be relaxed allowing ownership of a country station e.g. Southern Cross/Win etc by companies that own the city stations.

As Turnbull is in charge of this process, it should stand him in good stead with News Limited and therefore increase his chance of gaining the Prime Ministership in the future.

Along with the reviews (er competition being removed for Murdoch) of SBS being merged into the ABC and the ABC budget being slashed further, we can look forward to a sad future where ABC foreign correspondents will be further removed from the world increasing reliance on foreign news sources for all our international news. I am confident ABC24 will not survive this process.
 
The ABC is hoping. praying, advocating that Abbott's meeting today with President Obama will be marred by their differences on climate change. This is just wishful thinking.

On November 12, 2012, a journalist asked Obama if the political will existed in Washington to legislate “some kind of a tax on carbon”.

The short answer was no, but this is what Obama actually said: “….that if the message is somehow we’re going to ignore jobs and growth simply to address climate change, I don’t think anybody is going to go for that. I won’t go for that …. we’re still trying to debate whether we can just make sure that middle-class families don’t get a tax hike.”

Abbott couldn’t have put it better himself.
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So suggestions that US-Australia relations are threatened by Abbott’s approach, or that Australia will be humiliated if climate change is not placed prominently on the G20 agenda are so much gaseous emissions.
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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opi...e-in-obama-talks/story-fnahw9xv-1226951170451
 
The ABC itself, on 7.30 last night, featured one talking head who said it was simply not done to have any sort of confrontation in these meetings, a mutual respect for different views taking precedence.

Also, for all Mr Obama's rhetoric, from what I've heard about his 30% reduction it just sounds to be aspirational.
If that's wrong and he has managed - despite the Republican objections - to legislate something which makes it mandatory - then I'm sure one of our resident climate change enthusiasts will quickly correct me.

Possibly more likely that he wants to go down in the history books as having made some placatory noises to appease those who believe we're doomed before his term is over.
 
Here are some truths about how politically biased the ABC is with there current affairs programs.

The ACMA have received more complaints about the ABC than any outlet media outlet.....So why are the ABC so biased towards the Green/Labor socialist left wing?.......It is all about socialistic control of peoples minds to indoctrinate them into socialism and away from conservatism.......you know, make the conservatives look bad and greedy....I like the philosophy of Abraham Lincoln which I posted some months ago.


http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...-from-tv-viewers/story-e6freon6-1226959204755
 
What truths? Details are not released in that story except all complaints dismissed. Is it a case that ABC is more likely to talk more deeply about social and political issues? The mainstream commercial channels have nothing comparable in coverage as the ABC.

Was there a complaint that the ABC did not push Turnball enough on the NBN?
 
boofhead said:
What truths? Details are not released in that story except all complaints dismissed. Is it a case that ABC is more likely to talk more deeply about social and political issues? The mainstream commercial channels have nothing comparable in coverage as the ABC.
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+1. Absolutely correct.

A media outlet is much less likely to have complaints when they resort to cheap populism and discuss nothing contraversial or outside the boundaries of the general interest of the majority of populace which is usually sport or sensationalism.

Possibly more likely that he wants to go down in the history books as having made some placatory noises to appease those who believe we're doomed before his term is over.
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That would seem pretty pointless if he knew that AGW is phony.
 
boofhead said:
What truths? Details are not released in that story except all complaints dismissed. Is it a case that ABC is more likely to talk more deeply about social and political issues? The mainstream commercial channels have nothing comparable in coverage as the ABC.

Was there a complaint that the ABC did not push Turnball enough on the NBN?
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Yes and there is a good chance the ACMA is loaded with lefties planted there by the Labor Party.

It is a bit like putting the fox in the pen to look after the chickens,
 
We’re talking of course about the union royal commission, which last week was one the biggest shows in town:


"SANDRA SULLY: Tonight, in the hot seat, Julia Gillard’s former boyfriend faces the music at the union’s Royal Commission.

”” Channel Ten, Eyewitness News, 12th June, 2014"


"ADAM WALTERS: The former strong-man of the Australian Workers Union recently attacked a photographer but today he was targeted outside the Royal Commission into union corruption.

MAN: That’s what you’ve done, you took money from the worker.

”” Channel Seven, News, 12th June, 2014"

The story has allegations of
Fraud.
Corruption.
Political slush funds.
And lying to a Royal Commission.

And tangled up in the middle of it is former Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, who in the 1990s was lover and lawyer to this man, Bruce Wilson.

He’s a former boss of the Australian Workers Union in Victoria and a man who could be charged with fraud, according to counsel assisting the royal commission.

On Friday, Wilson’s evidence to the commission was front page news in The Australian and the Telegraph.

But it was nowhere to be seen on the cover of these Fairfax papers.

And amazingly it was missing entirely from the previous evening’s 7pm bulletins on ABC TV in Brisbane, Adelaide, Hobart and Darwin.

The day before, when evidence was given about wads of cash being handed to Ms Gillard to fund her home renovations ... ABC TV’s 7pm bulletins in three of those capitals also failed to report the news.

While in Sydney it was down the bottom of the bulletin just before the sport.

The Australian’s Hedley Thomas has been leading the charge on this story for a couple of years.

The ABC has done little and has long been accused of refusing to investigate.

And it was under attack again last week.


"ANDREW BOLT: The ABC has run absolutely dead on the Julia Gillard slush fund scandal, absolutely dead. It’s been not a story, it’s been terrible. The rare time say, in Melbourne, the 774 presenter Jon Faine, has ever talked to reporters covering it , it has been to yell at them and heckle them ...

”” 2GB, Nights with Steve Price, 10th June, 2014"

Up till now, perhaps, one might have given the ABC the benefit of the doubt.

But with sensational evidence being given under oath last week to a Royal Commission there is surely no justification for ignoring it.
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http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s4026504.htm

I was pleasantly surprised to see this covered by Media Watch this week. As the ABC is funded by all taxpayers, it would be good to see all the newsworthy topics of the day covered. When I was a child the ABC was the only tv station that we received, goodness only knows how that may have shaped my political views if it had been my only source of political commentary. In retrospect, I don't recall there being anywhere near as much cherry-picking of what was or wasn't newsworthy, or as much of a political slant put on coverage way back then.
 
"ANDREW BOLT: The ABC has run absolutely dead on the Julia Gillard slush fund scandal, absolutely dead. It’s been not a story, it’s been terrible. The rare time say, in Melbourne, the 774 presenter Jon Faine, has ever talked to reporters covering it , it has been to yell at them and heckle them ...

”” 2GB, Nights with Steve Price, 10th June, 2014"

Up till now, perhaps, one might have given the ABC the benefit of the doubt.

But with sensational evidence being given under oath last week to a Royal Commission there is surely no justification for ignoring it.
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Ignoring it ?

ABCNews24 has been running live broadcasts of the Royal Commission, except when they cut to media interviews by Tony Abbott or Scott Morrison, and occasionally Shorten and Milne.
 
ABC’s managing director Mark Scott and the broadcaster’s chairman James Spigelman hosted controversial MP Clive Palmer on their table at the press gallery Midwinter Ball in Canberra last night.

Mr Palmer, who has vowed to vote against many of the government’s budget measures, was invited onto the ABC’s corporate table so that Mr Scott could establish a good relationship with the Queensland MP, who already is a fixture on the ABC’s news and current affairs channels.
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Scott and Palmer have a lot in common. They share a hatred of Abbott and the Liberals. Now they are cosying up. Not a good look.

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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...t-midwinter-ball/story-fn59niix-1226959194160
 
Calliope said:
I assume you mean Senator Conroy. Actually it's perfectly normal that the ABC would cover up his gross incompetencies.:rolleyes:
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I mean Turnball. He has not been hardpressed this year about the NBN his party wants to roll out. Delimiter/Renai had a story about it recently. Seems NBN is not to be discussed with Malcolm while in ABC studios.
 
DocK said:
I was pleasantly surprised to see this covered by Media Watch this week. As the ABC is funded by all taxpayers, it would be good to see all the newsworthy topics of the day covered. When I was a child the ABC was the only tv station that we received, goodness only knows how that may have shaped my political views if it had been my only source of political commentary. In retrospect, I don't recall there being anywhere near as much cherry-picking of what was or wasn't newsworthy, or as much of a political slant put on coverage way back then.
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SirRumpole said:
Ignoring it ?

ABCNews24 has been running live broadcasts of the Royal Commission, except when they cut to media interviews by Tony Abbott or Scott Morrison, and occasionally Shorten and Milne.
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Perhaps, rather than an all-encompassing ABC groupthink, it's actually dependent on the producers/presenters of the various programs what focus is taken?

As someone who finds quality information on radio is much better than that on TV, I have no complaints about, eg, the coverage of current events on "PM" which runs for almost an hour 6 - 7pm weeknights. They have covered the Royal Commissions into Institutional Abuse and the one on the Unions in sequential detail, including direct testimony. I suppose the additional available time helps.

"The World Today", about one hour at lunchtime tends to go more for subtle anti government stuff, nothing really overt but continuous implications and guests who support the Left agenda.
 
Perhaps, rather than an all-encompassing ABC groupthink, it's actually dependent on the producers/presenters of the various programs what focus is taken?
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I think that's probably true.

From what I've seen of "Inside Business", Tikki Fullerton takes a more right wing view than some others might.

Just a guess but as the pay on commercial stations is usually better than at the ABC (at least in the halcyon days of Kerry Packer maybe not so much now), it wouldn't look good for a prospective presenter wanting a higher paying job at a commercial station to take a Left wing approach.
;)
 
That is surprising as Tikki in the past has presented more strongly green views - especially with her time on Landline.
 
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