Why I love the ABC

I also enjoyed this story & photos when I saw it yesterday.....thanks ABC

Let's sell it off so we get added advertising bonus content? I can't wait for that.

What do those of you who think the ABC has a leftist bias think about the Murdcoch Press, Sky News and and the slobbering shock jocks who pollute the airwaves?

Is bias in a public broadcaster, be it real or imagined, not okay when radical bias in a privately owned media organisation somehow acceptable?

Just sayin.

Well, there you go. I really didn't think my post would provide an opportunity to have a go at the ABC. What was on my mind was that I can't think of another broadcaster who would have produced such an interesting, clear and beautiful explanation of the Cooper and Diamantina systems.

I'll be more careful in future.

Be in no doubt. We pay for very word, every column inch and every screen minute of private media though the price loading that they have to place on their products to pay for advertising.

But that doesn't make them bad. But I am guessing, perhaps wrongly, that the aggregated cost is lot more than the cost of the ABC.

Some of the investigative journalism we have seen has been ground breaking. But where did it come from? Murcdoch? Sky News? The shock jocks who just read the newspapers on air?

Think about it. Would Q&A survive on commercial television? Or Four Corners? Or Radio National? Or News Radio? Listen to them and then decide.

And go the inland rivers. Thanks John and Min. I had to get this off my chest.

The ABC is ok if one is very Selective about the shows you view - and you can stomach the nauseating lefty agenda bias in between. Q&A is the epitome of socialist ABC propaganda. But as you mention, there are many interesting shows that you won't see on the dreck that passes for commercial TV.

I don't think there's a media outlet of any type that doesn't have a bias, or a barrow to push.

We know the ABC is full of lefties, that doesn't make them any lesser people, or less capable of producing satisfactory articles/documentaries/news programmes.

I think most of us who have been around for a while, can see any bias by reading between the lines, in most articles or shows.
I for one, thank the good Lord we still have an advert-free national broadcaster, even if it does occasionally produce some extreme leftist drivel.

I rarely watch commercial TV now, because the constant and rubbishy stream of ads, would drive one to drink.
In a popular commercial programme, the ads seems to be non-stop. I reckon they must frequently disobey broadcasting limits.

I for one, don't want anyone commercialising or dismantling "Auntie" - as the media barons and corporate CEO's would dearly love to do.

We've already had the Commonwealth Bank sold to the highest bidders - an event that was nothing short of a national disgrace - and an event still being celebrated with clinking champagne glasses in the corridors of the Big 4 Banks boardrooms.
King O'Malley must be spinning in his grave. Not to mention what the Australian Govt has since lost in income from the Commonwealth Bank.

It will be a sad day for Australia if some scumbag PM gets together with a bunch of corporate mates, and they work out a plan to get rid of "Aunty".

Thanks, Min, for the link to that well-put-together article - and thanks to the ABC people who put the effort in, to provide it.

Cheers, Ron.

May we please remind people to avoid the temptation to hijack a post with political comments which can spoil the good intentions of a post and further discourage people from posting in our Forum due to fear of starting an unintentioned debate. Cheers folks!

Thanks Min. I thoroughly enjoyed it and have sent the link to friends who have responded likewise.
It is a good example of the many things the ABC excels in doing, like the amazing documentaries they did on Lake Eyre some years ago and that the commercials won't touch because it would not attract a big enough audience to make it viable.
Cheers
Andrew