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  1. kerrari

    kerrari Two Time F1 World Champ
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    Watch ABC channel 24 ('international' ABC) news - it has none of the crap 'we can reveal...' 'in an exclusive...' gotch junk that is creeping into the normal ch 2 from 9 and 7.
     
  2. knocker

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    Good grief
     
  3. Steve355F1

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    Still horribly biased and compromised in what they choose to show and the way they show it, and in flagrant breach of their own charter.

    But apart from that, worth a watch occasionally.

    If only it wasn't taxpayer funded...
     
  4. kerrari

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    It's still way ahead of any of the 7, 9 sky crap...
     
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    It’s ahead of 7,9, and 10. Agreed.

    At the end of the day, Sky is a subscription service. It lives and dies by whether people want to watch and pay for it.
    Therefore it has every right to be biased one way or the other.

    The ABC is funded by the taxpayer. If it wasn’t taxpayer funded, its blatant bias wouldn’t bother me at all.
    However, The ABC’s charter obliges it to be balanced and present a variety of views, and it fails that test miserably.

    Let me put it this way; would you be happy if the taxpayer funded Sky News to the tune of over $1B per year?
    Would it bother you if Bolt, Jones, etc. we’re being paid by your taxes?

    Another question: Can you name one conservative presenter on the entire ABC (TV or radio)? One real conservative?
    You can’t, of course.

    Funny how they carry on endlessly about “diversity” yet they're totally unable to accept diversity of opinion.
    Particularly odd considering that the majority of people aren’t hard left.
     
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    I like the 730 report
    Leigh Sales gives both sides grief
     
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    You must be watching a different one to me then.


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    What I find particularly annoying about her interviewing style is that she constantly interrupts any Liberal polly before they're 1/3rd of the way through answering, but lets the Labor/Green people finish their sentences.

    And of course when she attacks a labor person, it's because they're not left enough. Meanwhile, the Greens always get soft questions.
     
  10. Extreme1

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    We’re all being fed lies by the media. The news media has a responsibility to report the truth,but they don’t. The difference is the people that take their garbage as gospel and the ones that know they are liars.


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  11. kerrari

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    Look I agree the ABC reporting has diminished badly over the past few years, but I still see them *mostly* reporting in a bipartisan way - politicians from both sides get hammered pretty whenever they step out of line.
    I rarely watch 7:30 these days because I can’t stand Leigh Sales’ commercial style ‘gotchas’. Like I said, watch the ‘international’ of ABC news version on ch 24.
    I don’t want to see ‘Left’ or ‘Right’ reporters - I want reporters NOT commentators (which is what Bolt , Jones etc are).
     
  12. FazzerPorscheman

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    Well Karen, I want “journalists” not talking heads.

    Sadly there is SFA of them left.

    And on the commercial channels, it is very obvious 99% of the females are hired for their looks not their jornalistic abilities.
     
  13. Aircon

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    Then why are they all ugly?
     
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    D'yer think...:D
     
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    As the publically funded broadcaster, the ABC must provide news, not opinions and be entirely neutral on issues. It's not the ABC's role to lead discussions and provide opinions. Needs to be cleaned out, defunded, whatever. They are using taxpayer resources to push their viewpoints. It started to to happen 30 years ago, before that the ABC prided itself on its neutrality and impartiality.
     
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    Can you answer my question?
    Can you name ONE genuine conservative presenter on the entire ABC network?
    Or ONE show which ever presents Conservative viewpoints (other than for the explicit purpose of ridicule)?
    Considering that Conservatives are actually in the majority in this country, it’s pretty amazing that there is NOT ONE on the taxpayer funded broadcaster. It’s not like it’s 60/40, or 80/20, or even 90/10.

    It’s 99/1!

    Yet the ABC fall over themselves to present “diversity” for the 2% of gay people, or endlessly carry on about the mythical gender wage gap, or the tragic joke that is the climate change religion.

    Absolute joke. And the sooner that pack of clowns are defunded and made to stand on their own merits, the better.

    If lots of people really consider the ABC valuable and worth paying for, great. Let them fuchsing pay for it.
     
  17. kerrari

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    Actually it started the same as every degradation has when a government ‘service’ is suddenly a ‘business’ and is judged by it’s profitability - think education (especially technical ed), airport terminals and parking, post office services. Hand in hand with the great business concept of ‘outsourcing’ and here’s where we get to.
     
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    Reporters should not be identifiable as either! They should be neutral. By the same token, can you name one Non-conservative presenter on Sky? And Sky doesn’t even pretend to ‘report’ - it’s just opinion and garbage.

    Do you not ever see Compass, Australian Story, Backroads, Landline, The Business, great dramas like Mystery Road, Buffalo Project, Redfern? As far as free to air, ABC and SBS are the only tolerable channels left. And the pay services are just as bad.
     
  19. greg246

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    Stephen Conroy is a regular panellist, Graeme Richardson, many more....
     
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    Sorry Karen, that's a classic diversion argument.

    The ABC's decline to left propaganda started in the 1963 with the appointment of Allan Ashbolt as executive producer of 4 corners. He went on to a succession of senior administrative positions.

    Ashbolt was a maverick broadcaster at the ABC, then a largely conservative organisation. Ashbolt managed to find jobs for a small group of Marxists and radicals like himself. In the ensuing thirty years that group, its appointees and values, have captured the organization. Ashbolt’s views have not only survived, they have built a house culture that even the appointment of a board now dominated by conservatives has been unable to displace.

    You can't change the culture of the ABC. It should be privatised for $1 (give every staff member shares) then let them run it. If it is so "beloved" by all Australians, as they keep telling us, then enough people will pay a subscription to watch it, just as happens with Netflix, Foxtel, CNN, etc, etc. Meanwhile, take the billion dollars we save and give it to police, nurses, firemen and teachers.
     
  21. moretti

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    They're crooks so they fit in well :p

    Self opinionated puffed up jolly boys, never liked them

    Richardson and Jones could write the rules for cash-for-comment, despicable human beings
     
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    You forgot that other idiot Latham. All this shows is they are ‘equal rights’ for idiots.
     
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    A black rapper can fill his songs with disgusting mysoginist abuse like "Ho" and be rewarded for it.

    Any white male who objects is called a racist.
     

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