“hang on, hang on, I’ve got one”…

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Maybe he means a brain, furious balancing, although the evidence for this is rather scant.

Oz @115, I started to read Pearson’s article, but as I can’t stomach him, I couldn’t get past the first paragraph. Another merchant banker, methinks.

(I know I’ve made the joke before, but it bears repeating. Often.)

Pearson also takes a shot at Larvatus Prodeo, deriding it for declaring the culture wars are dead when, as the discussion about phonics apparently demonstrates, they clearly aren’t.

What has concealed this and allowed some to depict the ABC as being biased to the left is that state and federal labor governments have adopted whole scale the economic neo-liberal dogma (which is, in reality, a justification for the looting of our economies by corporate thieves).

From the 1980′s until about 1996, Pru Goward blatantly abused her position as journalist including on the “The 7.30 Report” to peddle her extreme economic neo-liberal anti-union views and to promote the career of John Howard.

In the early noughties the ABC blatantly pushed privatisation. As an example, in 2003 the ABC Radio National’s Morning Show presenter Vivian Schenker, even as the Estens Review was supposedly considering the overwhelmingly anti-privatisation submissions and, form that supposedly, deciding the fate of Telstra, told her audience that the only think left to decide was haw the proceeds of privatisation were to be divided up.

For years, the ABC has abysmally failed to hold either Labor or Liberal Governments to account. Kerry O’Brien left Howard almost completely off the hook in one critical interview with him prior to the start of the Invasion of Iraq in 2003 and idiotically referred to the war as ‘ethical’ whilst assuring John Howard that no irony was intended. I complained of this in a letter that was published in the Canberra Times.

More recently, Brisbane’s ABC has given Premier Anna Bligh an astonishingly easy ride during the course of the recent rigged state elections and since then when she has attempted to foist the policy of “Shock Doctrine” style privatisation and public sector cutbacks on the Queensland public.

I have written of this in the articles “Brisbane ABC suppresses alternative candidates in state elections despite listener dismay with major parties” of 30 Apr 09 and “Brisbane’s local ABC radio fails to hold Anna Bligh to account over privatisation” of 28 May 09. I have invited ABC journalists to comment on my articles, but none have taken up my offer. Anyone who wants to defend the ABC, here or there, is most welcome to do so.

I had to turn the tv off when Joe hockey was on Q and A, what a bombastic fool…I think at some point he actually said out loud, “hang on, hang on, I’ve got one”…i don’t recall if the ‘one’ he was referring to was an idea or a comeback, but whatever followed was daft. The guy is embarrassing.

As for the ABC, I love the Chaser, Dr Who and Media Watch. However, why should the rest of the Australian public (some of whom probably earn less than me) subsidise my taste in entertainment?

I doubt it Razor. If your area of employment is giving an opinion and you are up front and clear about making that known, there is no prob. It is when you blur the distinction between what has become a kind of editorialising and the facts that you deserve the sack.

Presently that is even happening in the news gathering department.

The government’s print network closed without the general public batting an eyelid, whereas any party that went to an election on a platform of privatising even an arm of (say radio perhaps?) the ABC would be guaranteed to lose that election.

That’s one definition of relevance to a modern society for you.