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If the ABC didnât exist, conservatives would have to invent it
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If the ABC didnât exist, conservatives would have to invent it. It provides two vital functions to the right side of politics: it is the foe which unites the army, as well as a decoy which distracts progressives from the main game.
The ABC once again stands accused of bias. This is a familiar pantomime. A new incident sparks conservatives to condemn ABC bias and roll out a well-worn script insisting it is time to defund the national broadcaster. The ABC denies all charges and periodically appoints a fellow traveller to conduct a review. Naturally, the review finds the ABC to be largely impartial, to the satisfaction of the ABC management and no one else.
If the ABC didnât exist, conservatives would have to invent it
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If the ABC didnât exist, conservatives would have to invent it. It provides two vital functions to the right side of politics: it is the foe which unites the army, as well as a decoy which distracts progressives from the main game.
The ABC once again stands accused of bias. This is a familiar pantomime. A new incident sparks conservatives to condemn ABC bias and roll out a well-worn script insisting it is time to defund the national broadcaster. The ABC denies all charges and periodically appoints a fellow traveller to conduct a review. Naturally, the review finds the ABC to be largely impartial, to the satisfaction of the ABC management and no one else.
ABC chair Ita Buttrose (Image: AAP/Dan Himbrechts)
The ABC has handed to the Senate an internal review looking at bias in its election coverage. The public broadcaster objected to producing the report. This is chair Ita Buttrose’s letter to the Senate president explaining why.
10 December 2020
RE: Notion of Motion 934
On 9 December 2020, the Senate ordered that there be laid on the table by the minister representing the minister for communications, cyber safety and the arts, by no later than midday on 10 December 2020, the report by Kerry Blackburn (the “Blackburn Review”), commissioned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), in relation to the ABC’s coverage of the 2019 election (the report).