AUS RADIO BROADCAST 4 RE TIME TO SELL THE ABC
From: lookaboutsearch@no-spam (http://www.aussieseek.com)
Subject: Re: time to Sell the ABC
Date: 23 Jun 2003 21:13:50 -0700


You can't believe somethings you hear on radio. Like the supposed offer by Alston appealing to the democrats and greens..............
to give extra funding to the abc if the media deregulation ownership bill is allowed to pass the senate........... huh?

Of course the abc is the publicity machine for the dremocrats and greens and the labor party. So the offer may prove to be attractive to the loopy left.

The sheer diversity of other media available to the public for free speech in 2003 means that the bill should be passed.It will strengthen our media and build more jobs
As for the abc, whilst i appreciate the sentimental opinions expressed here, you would not lose the programs you like.

The body to replace the ABC which I have called Austalia ON AIR (like the nz model) would not have its own transmitters but would produce programs like the 730 report, 4 corners and landline for showing on sbs,commercial and community television.

Program buried on the abc would have the opportunity to reach a much wider audience
You have seen some of the Film Australia content shown on the abc so creativity would actually be enhanced
radio australia would be run by foreign affairs as well as asia pacific television
It can be done
It will save a billion dollars a year. we could use the money to build our northern cities (broome-kunanurra-darwin-mt isa- cairns-cooktown)
on nuclear defense, medicare, or to be able to keep paying old age pensions etc
the sale or tender price would be massive and could help the telstra shortfall. It would be interestig to see what it woulkd bring
all as simple as abc
keitha
lookaboutsearch@no-spam (http://www.aussieseek.com) wrote in message news:<560da5b9.0306151226.3a7e9ce8@no-spam>...

> SO..................The Independent Complaints Review Panel of the > Australian Broadcasting Corporation has found the ABC's Littlemore > Program to have been biased and to have repeatedly lied in its > comments about the Institute of Public Affairs in the program > broadcast on 9 April 2001.
> But in a bizarre decision, the panel agreed with the ABC that, as a > 'program of comment and opinion', it was meant to be somewhat biased > and unbalanced.
> > In other words, the ABC not only accepts bias as a matter of policy,
> but is untroubled if that bias is itself based on misleading and false > claims....................
> > what sort of a national broadcaster is this? > > oh no one killed the aborigines.. why? the abc told me so > > get it? > > keitha