Jon Faine interviewed Rudd this morning. One of his questions was inevitably..now that Obama has the job, do you now regret supporting Hillary? Or something close to that. A good thing Ken has left the country and missed it.

http://www.roadtosurfdom.com/2008/06/06/abc-complaint/

This line is now repeated as a mantra at the top of the ABC news bulletin every night, as a sort of product guarantee (trying so hard not to be seen leaning left, that it falls over to the right).”
……….Mr Denmore @7,

Jon Faine, on local ABC Melbourne, had a chat with Barry Cassidy this morning. “The Rudd honeymoon is over”, apparently. Yep, those famous words again.

The negativity towards Labor and Rudd was most obvious while caller criticism of the former Howard government members, actively discouraged. The brainwashing of all but a few Aunty hosts is quite breathtaking. It obviously extends well beyond the so called, “7PM news”, Mark.

Secondly, it’s vacuous and ultimately unsatisfying to read about what might happen, rather than what has happened or does happen. It can be comforting to live in a world where your own urges and prejudices are refracted back at you, but it doesn’t prepare you for events which affect you but which you and your equally narrow-minded “leaders” can’t foresee in the hall of mirrors.

Insofar as this is important, it’s how “our leaders” react that is where the news really is. How the delivery of government services is affected by the “Rudd honeymoon” is unclear to me - perhaps I need to start reading different media.

You might need the bricks for building at some time in the future. So don’t waste them. And adrian, there is a bit of a rumour around of merger plans for ABC and SBS. Both boards would then need to be dismantled as a result. Hooray.

I agree you’ll probably get fobbed off, but I guess you can try!

It’s almost as if Juanita Phillips is saying “See…we’re not a nest of lefties after all”.

This went all the way through the world’s second longest election campaign last year, too, with the bug-eyed Michael Brissenden appearing nightly on the 7.30 Report to provide the boilerplate analysis: “What happens next is anyone’s guess. But for now, one thing is certain - the Rudd honeymoon is over.”

This line is now repeated as a mantra at the top of the ABC news bulletin every night, as a sort of product guarantee (trying so hard not to be seen leaning left, that it falls over to the right).

Someone needs to tell them that the election was decided seven months ago. And the other guys lost.

BTW, why doesn’t Rudd make some strategic changes to the ABC board? The Opposition Organ may get a little hot under the collar, but so what? The ABC just gets worse and worse!

This morning’s headlines about Rudd being ‘Keatingesque’ complete with big picture of Keating headlined arrogant was appalling.

They do have a feedback form though no one has ever responded when I’ve sent feedback or complaints to them.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/contact/feedback.htm

Not sure if to will do you any good, however.

Does anyone know how to make a complaint to the ABC?

You’re better off asking that question at Catallaxy, although the amount of bitching done about the ABC is probably inversely proportional to the amount of considered complaints they make.

I’m not sure the Australian is all that interested in qualitative polling - after all, they’re after fodder to keep the spin engine rotating, not actual facts.