Staff writers
National broadcaster the ABC has shot itself in the foot yet again when head of news and current affairs Gaven Morris claimed 70 per cent of the population liked the ABC.
A poll published by the Institute for Public affairs revealed Auntie’s popularity rate was just 32 per cent among its home-grown audience. Thirty-eight per cent of respondents had no view. A whopping 30 per cent said the organisation was out of touch with ordinary Australians.
When it comes to Trump, the ABC is blatantly way out on the left side with its comrades in CNN, Washington Post and The Guardian. Every news clip the ABC runs about Trump is negative. Conversely any news about the Democrats or presidential hopefuls Creepy Joe Biden or Marxist Bernie Sanders is positive.
Then there is the mass infection of ‘climate change’ which oozes out of the Sydney news HQ like sewerage.
Almost to every man and woman (woops they won’t like that) ABC commentators have been brainwashed by the climate cultists. It is embarrassing and no wonder most viewers switch off when faced with a sonic barrage of climate disinformation.
Liberals like Tony Abbott had the audacity to suggest the federal government stop funding the Bolsheviks at the Ultimo Centre in Sydney. He should have known better. He lost his seat at the last election.
Let that be a lesson to interfering politicians who want to upset the Marxist status quo. Notably Prime Minister Scott Morrison soon changed his tune after Abbott was tossed out.
Where to from here? The easy way out is to ignore but what about its 3.16 billion dollar budget?
International visitors would be horrified after viewing a typically jaundiced ABC news story about Donald Trump, whose approval rating at home is about to hit 50 per cent and growing.
ABC Chairman Ita Buttrose recently was reminded of her corporation’s sordid treatment of closely-aligned Trump. She said she noted the comments. Mmmmm what did she do with the notes?
Will the ABC change its stars and stripes discord when the Chinese or Indonesians start banging on the front door of parliament house?
Just another arm of the enemy..
But Tony, as PM had the opportunity to trim the sails of the left-sailing ABC…but hardly touched them with a minuscule budget reduction. The ABC leftist latte drinkers just laughed and carried on their socialist way, at huge taxpayer expense.
And I’ve been waiting for Ita to actually stand up to them, really sort out the Marxists running the ABC..but not a word. She is the ultimate disappointment – and imo, coward.
It’s disgusting that (in Sydney) my radio choice is to listen to the rabid lefties on the ABC until I vomit…then turn to 2GB and listen to banks of ads interspersed with a few remarks by ego driven ‘shock jocks’ until I vomit again.
We badly need new ‘talk’ stations. There were some good things on 2UE but they took 2GB’s money and ran….and their purchaser laughed all the way to the bank with no competition in sight..
Clive Palmer (isn’t he quite popular in QLD?) has deep pockets; someone should suggest to him that he start a talk radio station. He could go into politics again, self- advertise and employ some of those ex 2UE people…it would be fun and give the self-satisfied, smug 2GB execs a run for their advertising dollar..
When funding is reduced it makes it difficult to expand so what do you expect I have always enjoyed the programs of the ABC and would like it to be funded appropriately
Stop funding their bloody ABC and SBS. So left they don’t have a right side.