Sounds like every middle manager I ever met.
Hopefully a pushback against the more recent apathy towards the LNP’s antics.
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Yeah, … but also, Guthrie has been pushing really hard into the Digital space & platforms, … and Murfuch has been very very upset by it.
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In a simplistic sense, the Coalition have the numbers on the ABC board by now, don’t they?
Debatable whether this helps them PR-wise though.
As an old pharte, I’m very dependent on the ABC. I don’t mind what they provide on the radio and TV generally, except that sacking Red was very “unfortunate”, not that I’m awake early enough.
And I can never see this left-wing bias. They’re certainly not troglodyte fascists like the Liberal National right, but ■■■■ them…who cares about them bar Sky News?
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Were you one of one of the sensitive folk who lost their mind when Red was installed, replacing I-don’t-remember-his-name, who had been there forever? There were some quality meltdowns at that time.
I miss Red. The newbies are soooo bland.
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This at least, is very good newz, … get fcked Rupert.
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I heard the Comcast deal included Ricky Dyson and a third rounder.
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ABC left-wing ?
Maybe in late 1970’s, but today they are a right-wing bunch of channel 9 wannabes. Probably all MCC members.
I think that was Francis Leach’s missus who didn’t resume the gig after mat. leave.
The current pair are pathetic!
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No…I used to like Evans the Wireless and Red is a curmudgeon like Evans the Wireless. I’ve even been called a curmudgeon myself, if you can believe that. But Peter Evans dropped off the twig whilst still the man. And always a Skyhooks fan, because I was Living in the Seventies.
Who preceded Red? I used to listen to Fox FM back in the days of How Green was my Cactus and Brunswick Heads Revisited.
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Yeah I’ve never been able to work that one out.
Best I’ve got is anyone saying they have a left wing bias really means “I have never had anyone explicitly tell me that they have broadcast something I agree with.”
There’s a name I haven’t heard in a while
A curious googling tells me it’s still going!
Even if it’s a silly as I remember it being in the 80s-90s, it probably seems like highbrow political analysis in today’s dumbed-down political landscape.
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Peter Evans, ah yes. Seriously old-school.
I only remember their take on the Combe-Ivanov affair…Ivanov telling his KGB handler about Australian language…two axe-handles across the ■■■■ = big woman.
At this point, any journalist who does their job presenting facts and asking hard questions of those in power, is considered left-wing.
If anything the ABC is so concerned about appearing left-wing that they go harder on Labor for the sake of ‘neutrality’
The fact the ABC is considered left-wing tells you how far right the FTA networks are.
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It is pretty funny hearing them try to find neutral sounding words when reporting on Trump Twitter tirades.
“Some… uh… emphatic?..words from the president describing his thoughts on the matter.”
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Time for Virginia Trioli to pull some Barnaby Joyce hi-jinks with the circular motion of the finger next to the ear signifying her thoughts on the other’s mental stability.
