A move to curtail the ABC would only 'punish Australian audiences': Michelle Guthrie
"ABC radio and television broadcasts focus on genres that are far removed from the commercial output. We have no interest in reality TV formats, chequebook interviews and the music genres of commercial FM – programming that draws the biggest and therefore most lucrative audiences for commercial media. Nor are we in competition for rights to any of the marquee sports events. Instead, we complement the market as the trusted, independent source of Australian conversations, culture and stories."
EX MURDOCH & GOOGLE EXEC MICHELLE GUTHRIE TELLS IT AS IT IS AND WHAT PEOPLE LIKE ANDREW BOLT CAN'T BECAUSE THEY ARE BOUND BY THE STRINGS OF THEIR PUPPET MASTERS WHO BLINDLY SLASH AT ENEMIES IN THE DARK TO BLAME OTHERS FOR THEIR MISMANAGEMENT. ALL TO APPEASE THEIR SHAREHOLDERS OF COURSE. IT'S NOTHING TO DO WITH THE ABC. (ODT)
It's not about privatising the ABC, it's about destroying it
THE ABC EARNS around $100 million a year from its commercial activities (mainly ABC shops). Its annual operating budget is more than a billion dollars. ( relatively the same as 1985 when it was $475mill)The organisation would not exist without the triennial funding provided by taxpayers (not by Treasurer Scott Morrison, who this week ludicrously claimed that he funded the ABC). You can’t privatise a business that doesn’t make a profit. So let’s call the demand from last weekend’s Liberal Party conference for what it really is; effectively a proposal to close the ABC and sell off its assets, the prime of which would be its broadcast spectrum.
But even that is hardly practical, or likely. Ironically, while the ABC haters with their ideological objections to public broadcasting would like to see it happen, there would be little or no appetite from the commercial television sector for starters.
GUTHRIE LICENCES THE BIAS DESTROYING THE ABC
Geoffrey Luck has observed and worked for the ABC for 70 years. He says ABC boss Michelle Guthrie's speech just justifies the bias now destroying it. Take her definition of her journalists' role: “Their determination to provide a voice for the powerless, the weak and the intimidated; their ability to shine the light on malfeasance and corruption."
"Won't happen, though, even under the Liberal government. Besides, everyone's an activist now. It's so much easier and so much more fun to take a side than to understand an issue."Bolt Andrew Bolt keeps projecting can't help it as it's all about him as a player for his side.
Back to Luck Mike Carlton knows him "I knew Geoffrey Luck at the ABC. He was a plodding dickhead, justly passed over for high editorial command." MC
"This nutter, Geoffrey Luck, was once an ABC journalist of crashing sub-mediocrity. My boss, briefly, and a right dumbfuck he was." MC
Annapolis Massacre: A moment to Consider Trump’s Opposition to Gun Safety Laws, Hatred of Journalists
Many critics of Trump have been eager to tie his well-known hatred for journalists to the mass shooting of reporters at the Capital Gazette in […]Trump’s incitement of his followers against journalists is indeed troubling, and some reporters covering his rallies have spoken of being fearful when Trump turned the eyes of his mob on them.
Andrew Bolt has taken up the crusade against journalists here like Trump. Our gun laws just may have saved us from tragedy. He pushes many hatreds and claims he represents the real Australia and he has incited Australians to push back no fight back without ever qualifying how. He publicly stated he admired the conviction of the Barcelona terrorists and God-fearing Christians need to have as much. What is incitement if that isn't?
Journalists in Britain and Ireland often refer to the summer months as the “silly season.” Little of consequence is happening, the media apparently decide, so we can treat trivia as newsworthy.
I’m not sure if hot weather is to blame but much recent coverage of Gaza is quite silly. Perspective has been discarded as kites and balloons have been depicted as major threats.
These are “weapons that are designed to kill,” according to an Israeli military spokesperson quoted in a Financial Times feature. Fixated on these high-flying incendiary devices, the feature omitted a pertinent fact: nobody has actually been killed by them.
Silly reporting of this nature serves Israel well. An aggressive state that has committed a number of massacres this year alone is cast as a victim.
Intentionally or not, the press is offering pretexts for Israel to launch another major offensive against Gaza. Any such attack would then be presented as an act of retaliation – or even of self-defence.
While every form of Palestinian resistance gets maligned, Israel’s weapons industry is treated with the greatest imaginable respect.
Dozens of Israeli firms took part in a Paris fair earlier this month. Eurosatory – as the event is called – was jointly organized by France’s defence ministry and arms lobby.
UN human rights chief to probe extreme poverty in the UK — RT UK News
Andrew Bolt has taken up the crusade against journalists here like Trump. Our gun laws just may have saved us from tragedy. He pushes many hatreds and claims he represents the real Australia and he has incited Australians to push back no fight back without ever qualifying how. He publicly stated he admired the conviction of the Barcelona terrorists and God-fearing Christians need to have as much. What is incitement if that isn't?
Press gives Israel pretext to attack Gaza | The Electronic Intifada
Australian Press needs inclusion here as well just read Andrew Bolt's commentaries but even more the lack of commentary on Israel. We can imagine just how much attention kites and balloons would get at International arms shows when they are portrayed by Israel's IDF as deadly. Israel is no doubt copying them to sell commercially. (ODT)Journalists in Britain and Ireland often refer to the summer months as the “silly season.” Little of consequence is happening, the media apparently decide, so we can treat trivia as newsworthy.
I’m not sure if hot weather is to blame but much recent coverage of Gaza is quite silly. Perspective has been discarded as kites and balloons have been depicted as major threats.
These are “weapons that are designed to kill,” according to an Israeli military spokesperson quoted in a Financial Times feature. Fixated on these high-flying incendiary devices, the feature omitted a pertinent fact: nobody has actually been killed by them.
Silly reporting of this nature serves Israel well. An aggressive state that has committed a number of massacres this year alone is cast as a victim.
Intentionally or not, the press is offering pretexts for Israel to launch another major offensive against Gaza. Any such attack would then be presented as an act of retaliation – or even of self-defence.
While every form of Palestinian resistance gets maligned, Israel’s weapons industry is treated with the greatest imaginable respect.
Dozens of Israeli firms took part in a Paris fair earlier this month. Eurosatory – as the event is called – was jointly organized by France’s defence ministry and arms lobby.
GLOBAL WARMING WON'T KILL YOU, BUT SBS PROPAGANDA MIGHT
SBS is running a reckless commercial in this very cold winter urging the elderly to turn off their heating to save the planet from global warming. Mind you, green policies already make heating a luxury. Save the planet - no matter how many of the old and frail now die of cold, as we're already seeing. These warmists are idiots.
UN human rights chief to probe extreme poverty in the UK — RT UK News
Visualizing global warming month by month for 137 years - Axios
The Earth is warmer now than at any time since reliable record-keeping began in 1880, and we're continuing to warm at an accelerated rate. In fact, the Earth is warmer now than at any point in modern human civilization.
SHORTEN SIMPLY STUFFED UP. HIS RETREAT MAKES SENSE
Bill Shorten had what I last week called a "word vomit" - a slip which had him commit Labor to repeal tax cuts for businesses with a turnover of $10-$50 million a year. That sparked fake claims that he'd made a "captain's call". Now he's been forced to scrap that policy, a much safer and saner move. But his fate now lies in the polls.
PAYWALL
Just how many spits and how many vomits did Bolt's favourite pollie have the went thundering around the world and Bolt was left in his wake crying "He'll Change He'll Change". When you have to make a mountain out of a molehill you know the desperation is on Bolt's side. As for the Polls does Bolt really believe the LNP will best the ALP in a two-party poll or that Abbott will rise and discover anti-gravity. Bolt simply makes it up as he goes along. Maybe he's found a new career reading books out loud for the IPA. He could do that from a barge in Holland.
CHRISTIANS SLAUGHTERED. YAWN
They are Africans and mostly Christians, so of little interest to the media: "Over 200 people, most of them believed to be Christians, were massacred over three days in Nigeria this past weekend, officials and church sources are saying, as the relentless bloodshed carried out by radicals continues." Islam again.
SOUTPHOMASSANE SLIMES PORTER. RACE-BAITER SHOULD APOLOGISE
Even as he leaves, ex-Racial Discrimination Commissioner Tim Soutphomassane shows his talent for imagining racial slurs where none exist: "I didn’t expect we would have an Attorney-General suggesting people from a racial minority background didn’t belong to mainstream Australian society.” But check the transcript: no such thing was said or implied.
NOT CIVILISATION AS THE ANU KNOWS IT
Sources must be protected, so I can say only that a very senior ANU academic in conversation made clear the ANU's hostility to teaching Western civilisation favourably. So no surprise: "The ANU teaches more than 150 subjects dealing with... Western Civilisation, but ... but many subjects are framed through perspectives of class, race, gender..."
This was unwise, in my view, given the ANU's seeming disdain of Western civilisation and the high likelihood that the money would have been hijacked by the Left to do the exact opposite of the donor's intention."Bolt
Bolt is delivering a character reference for the unwanted approaches of what the ANU regards as a Rapists. Bolt is being insistent that ANU ought to be allowed to be fucked and is missing out.
You have to remember Bolt has the failed credentials as an advocate for fuckers just as he has a failed credential of being educated at Adelaide University. When universities are reluctant Bolt's there trying to up their skirts. He went on for months promoting Dr Bjorn Lomborg as an alright guy to horizontally dance with. Nobody took him on and he hasn't been heard from since.
You have to laugh here is what Bolt thinks of himself despite being degreeless.
"This is the danger with collectivist movements, which tend to attract the weaker, the dumber and those terrified of confrontation by those who could prove them wrong." Bolt's currently reading what he calls Great Books out loud for the IPA. Given Marx was English and his books influenced the planet in greater numbers than some the bible today is bolt going to be reading that out loud for the IPA?
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