Oh please. Cry me a river. Australia’s right-wing government ran a decade-long ABC smear campaign which included multiple government-mandated enquires, of the government’s design mind you, to try to prove and weed out bias at the ABC.
1. They didn’t really find anything of note.
2. The whole exercise has scared many at the ABC into not doing good journalism
3. The decade of budget cuts which had a negligible effect on the bottom line but were a fantastic way to virtue signal to the party’s right-wing fan base took away from, among other things, the quality of the ABC’s journalistic output.
You’re looking at a news org that was run under a right-wing government for a decade, including them installing one of their own at the top, and telling me that there’s ‘left-ring bias’? The assertions you’re making about things “never happening” don’t reflect journalistic content I see being pumped out of the ABC ALL the time.
1. They didn’t really find anything of note. 2. The whole exercise has scared many at the ABC into not doing good journalism 3. The decade of budget cuts which had a negligible effect on the bottom line but were a fantastic way to virtue signal to the party’s right-wing fan base took away from, among other things, the quality of the ABC’s journalistic output.
You’re looking at a news org that was run under a right-wing government for a decade, including them installing one of their own at the top, and telling me that there’s ‘left-ring bias’? The assertions you’re making about things “never happening” don’t reflect journalistic content I see being pumped out of the ABC ALL the time.