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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Was there a complaint that the ABC did not push Turnball enough on the NBN?
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.
"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.
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.
I assume you mean Senator Conroy. Actually it's perfectly normal that the ABC would cover up his gross incompetencies.
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.
Perhaps, rather than an all-encompassing ABC groupthink, it's actually dependent on the producers/presenters of the various programs what focus is taken?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.
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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