ABC gets into bed with a new partner
Dr Mumbo notes the fervour with which The Australian has attacked the ABC in recent months and in particular its focus on the decision to partner with the like of Fairfax and more recently The Guardian.
It’s a point often mentioned in The Australian’s news stories, not to mention its editorials (for anyone wondering of the last 30 editorials five have been about the ABC) as inappropriate for the public broadcaster.
Take this one from January 31 which quotes Tony Abbott on how the partnership with The Guardian over the Edward Snowden story ABC showed “very poor judgment”.
It then goes on to bemoan: “The infiltration of Leftist political and cultural activists, the proliferation of platforms and the de-skilling of staff… the ABC’s collectivist, inner-city clique of broadcasters, bloggers, latter-day Trotskyites and inked hipsters, but it should chill the blood of taxpayers and a broad audience seeking reliable, factual and comprehensive news and current affairs.”
Anyway Dr Mumbo wonders what The Australian’s editorial writers will say about the ABC newest partner…
Oh – so that explains it – Murdoch and his merry men are all just jealous lovers – ABC is too liberal with *her* favours!.
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Notice that Abbott and crew have suddenly gone quiet on the burnt hands affair? Anyone who read the recent SMH interview, with the interpreter who witnessed the event ,will have been be left with the impression that Abbot’s Navy did in fact burn the hands of 3 asylum seekers. So it’s a witnesses word – some one who was there and has everything to lose, against a Prime minister’s and his media mates. The whole incident proves why we need the ABC to keep the bastards, and their media mates, honest. Most of us expected that with enough rope, Commander Abbott was going to hang himself, but so soon?
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