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I think she would make a good politician. Tell the audience what they want to hear.
That is surprising as Tikki in the past has presented more strongly green views - especially with her time on Landline.
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.
Additionally, though they show balance, is there any ABC program, TV or radio, that has a right wing agenda (like, for instance, the Bolt Report).
I don't want to sound too conspiratorial, but could it be that overall they may appear somewhat balanced, but when it comes to audience reach, the most popular shows are far more to the left. So their prime time TV shows like the 7'OClock News, Q&A and Insiders clearly show an anti-government bias, the radio programs, which are probably only listened to by a more discerning audience, show balance. Additionally, though they show balance, is there any ABC program, TV or radio, that has a right wing agenda (like, for instance, the Bolt Report). Left orientated and balanced when taken together is still tending to the left on average.
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What do you want, balance or bias ?
Why should any ABC program run an agenda ?
Balance of course. But my point was that if there wasn't an overall left agenda and if any bias was because of purely human factors that are difficult to eliminate, then we should expect to see that bias going both ways. But any bias when shown is to the left, at least 95% of the time.
No, I cannot think of even one.I don't want to sound too conspiratorial, but could it be that overall they may appear somewhat balanced, but when it comes to audience reach, the most popular shows are far more to the left. So their prime time TV shows like the 7'OClock News, Q&A and Insiders clearly show an anti-government bias, the radio programs, which are probably only listened to by a more discerning audience, show balance. Additionally, though they show balance, is there any ABC program, TV or radio, that has a right wing agenda (like, for instance, the Bolt Report).
Yes, agree. I do think, though, that Leigh Sales on 7.30 is good. She delivers the hard questions to both sides which is what a host should do. Hope her maternity leave is not much longer.Left orientated and balanced when taken together is still tending to the left on average.
Again, I can only comment on radio, but definitely not on late evening radio on both major networks.Yes, this had occurred to me also. I would assume that the bulk of the ABC's news and current affairs audience would be its prime time slots on ABC1 - and this is a different demographic to that of the daytime and radio audience I would think. I'm assuming that coalition voters outnumber labor/greens in the over 50's age group but the opposite possibly applies for under 30's?
I don't quite understand what you mean here. You have to actually devote time to watching TV. With radio you can be doing other things while listening. I have PM on in the evenings when doing meal preparation etc.Many busy working people only have time for tv of an evening.
The main reason I avoid watching ABC TV news.It would be nice to be able to rely on at least one news bulletin to be free of any political agenda, and one would expect that the station funded by the people for the people should be that one.
At long last, the ABC is in for a long awaited shake up with the appointment of Janet Albrechtsens and Neil Brown to the ABC appointment panel......Tony Jones should be the first to go......The Green/Labor bias is about to be cracked.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/med...c-and-start-over/story-fna045gd-1226977124062HE is just one member of an influential four-person panel responsible for appointing future ABC board directors.
But, if it were up to him, former Liberal Party deputy leader Neil Brown QC would sell off what he describes as the overly commercial and unnecessarily expansive ABC and start the process of publicly funding a news organisation from scratch.
In an interview yesterday, Mr Brown, a former communications minister, said there was a significant waste of public money at the ABC and questioned why an organisation designed to deliver news was conducting opinion polls and expanding into magazines.
In the meantime, I think the chance of the ABC being sold or privatised are very remote, so in that context, where it is unlikely, the next question is, Do you want to make it better? And that means you should have good people on the board to make sure it has good management and to make sure it fulfils its functions.
“I think it should be sold,” Mr Brown said. “The best thing to do might be to start again.
the long and slow migration of the ABC from news organisation to political mouthpiece reminds me of the frog in boiling water analogy. We, the silent majority have not noticed the slow creeping take over until now and its too late.
It's a pity the ABC didn't heed the rising tide of discontent with regard to their biased one-sided reporting and editorials, because it now seems that they may have shot themselves in the foot, and things beyond their control will be put in place to redress their continued unbalanced representations. I would just love to see Q&A with a truly balanced panel where we could hear a range of differing views and arguments. We do ourselves a disservice by pandering to the one-sided argument.
The following are a couple of examples of the Comments following the article in The Australian:
Malcolm Turnbull was subjected to very aggrieved and aggressive questioning on "AM" on RN this morning over the appointment of these two people (both of whom I welcome). Mr Turnbull was polite but entirely firm, saying it was nothing to do with him that as Minister he has no responsibility for and was not consulted about the appointments.
I can just imagine the collective outrage at the ABC. About time.
The following are a couple of examples of the Comments following the article in The Australian:
Malcolm Turnbull was subjected to very aggrieved and aggressive questioning on "AM" on RN this morning over the appointment of these two people (both of whom I welcome). Mr Turnbull was polite but entirely firm, saying it was nothing to do with him that as Minister he has no responsibility for and was not consulted about the appointments.
I can just imagine the collective outrage at the ABC. About time.
They are just pissing into the wind.
I think that's right, banco. But since those times the ABC has become significantly more a political mouthpiece and probably the present government is more serious about effecting some change in the Board than John Howard was, or needed to be, at the time.Howard tried similar things and they had close to zero impact. They are just pissing into the wind.
(b) the boat transfers that may or may not be occurring with the Sri Lankan asylum seekers, where they have interviewed pretty much every Left refugee advocate available (and there's no shortage of them) to demonstrate that Australia must be in contravention of the refugee convention etc. Their outrage is palpable.
The principle of non- refoulement is so fundamental that no reservations or derogations may be made to it. It provides that no one shall expel or return (“refouler”) a refugee against his or her will, in any manner whatsoever, to a territory where he or she fears threats to life or freedom. Finally, the Convention lays down basic minimum standards for the treatment of refugees, without prejudice to States granting more favourable treatment. Such rights include access to the courts, to primary education, to work, and the provision for documentation, including a refugee travel document in passport form.
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