The ABC

[Black Orchid]

The ABC is facing funding cuts but according to the nightly news they still rake in $1 billion of taxpayer money. This article is long but it's well worth a read and I will only post parts of it. This is what we pay for??? ...

MONICA ATTARD RECKONS THE COMMUNISTS WERE, WAIT FOR IT – FASCISTS

Media Watch Dog just happened to hear the “Journo’s Forum” on ABC Radio 702’s Drive with Richard Glover last night. This is what Monica Attard had to say when discussion turned on whether Australia should follow activists in the United States and Britain and get rid of statues of what are called these days ‘dead white males’.

Comrade Attard had a nuanced position on this issue. Fair enough. It’s just that her view contained a historical howler. Here we go:

Monica Attard:…. And there are some cases where you can totally justify it. But I look at what happened, for example, in Russia in 1991. When Soviet communism collapsed and people rampaged around the major cities, Moscow in particular. They tore down almost all the statues of Lenin and Marx and Engels and Stalin and Brezhnev. They tore down this monstrous statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky, who was the first head of the NKVD, which was the precursor to the KGB. People felt great about it. They felt great when they were ripping down those statues. And for a moment, it almost felt like it was the right thing to do, because it was a statement of opposition to the atrocities that they had perpetrated. On the other hand … there was no reminder of what happens when fascism [sic] takes hold.

What a load of absolute tosh – and this from a Professor and Head of Journalism at Sydney’s UTS. The likes of Lenin, Stalin, Dzerzhinsky and Brezhnev were not fascists who established a fascist totalitarian regime in the Soviet Union. They were communists who established a communist totalitarian regime.

It seems that Comrade Attard is into denial about the brand of dictators who ran the Soviet Union between 1917 and 1991 and wants to link them with the Nazis in Berlin and Fascists in Rome. No wonder so many young journalists lack historical knowledge.
Can you bear it?

ABC AM SNEERS AT TONY ABBOTT’S AC

It is customary for former prime ministers to receive Australia’s highest award – the AC. Media Watch Dog understands that not all ex-prime ministers have accepted an AC but believes that all were offered one.

Here’s how the ABC AM program covered the fact that former prime minister Tony Abbott had received an AC in last Monday’s Queen’s Birthday Honours List. After referring to some Australians with a less high profile than Mr Abbott, this is what the ABC’s ace reporter had to say:

Emilia Terzon: There are plenty of well-known people on the list too. Someone who likes this sort of thing is former prime minister Tony Abbott who controversially reinstated knighthoods and made Prince Philip a “Sir”. He’s just one of three people getting the country’s very top honour, making him a Companion of the Order of Australia.

It’s quite an achievement to become prime minister of Australia – only 30 Australians have done so. Yet AM chose to focus on the fact that Tony Abbott had given Prince Phillip an Australian knighthood – an honour he held in such other Commonwealth nations as Canada and New Zealand. By the way, New Zealand also reinstated knighthoods some years ago. It was as if Tony Abbott has achieved nothing else in life but giving Prince Philip a knighthood. Can You Bear It?

MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY’S GAEL JENNINGS CALLS THE ABC “WE” AS SHE BEGS FOR MORE MONEY FOR THE PUBLIC BROADCASTER ON THE ABC

As Media Watch Dog readers are well aware, the ABC TV News Breakfast program is a strong advocate for more funding for the taxpayer funded public broadcaster. Co-presenter Lisa Millar has interviewed Paul Fletcher on two occasions since he became the Minister for Communications – and on each occasion has put in a plug for more money for the ABC.

During the “Newspapers” segment of the program on Thursday, Comrade Millar handed the ABC begging bowl to former long-time ABC staffer Dr Gael Jennings. Let’s go to the transcript where Dr Jennings devoted considerable time to the public broadcaster despite it not being big news that morning:

Lisa Millar: …. we’re joined this morning by Dr Gael Jennings from the Centre for Advancing Journalism at the University of Melbourne. Good morning Gael, we’re going to start with ABC funding.

Gael Jennings: Yes, very interesting article in The Guardian this morning that’s basically saying that the ABC because it’s going to get another – it’s got a $41 million budget shortfall and it’s lost $783 million since the Coalition got into power in 2014 [sic], it’s looking to having to lose 250 jobs – radio bulletins will be cut back, current affairs might go, lifestyle content will be cut. And this is on top of a study that’s just found that the overwhelming majority of Australians don’t want these budget cuts. 76 per cent are against these budget cuts and 49 per cent of people think actually that we should get more funding. When I say “we” I mean the ABC ….

Dr Jennings went on to allege that every decision by ABC management to cut a function here or redirect resources there in recent years is the fault of the Coalition government. Needless to say, co-presenter Michael Rowland concurred. In the process he claimed that there had been a $41 million “budget cut” to the ABC. In fact, this is not a budget cut – but rather a pause in indexation funding. In absolute terms, ABC funding is increasing not decreasing. In real terms, according to MWD’s calculations, the ABC only needs to find a cut of $3 million in the current financial year – not $41 million. Followed by a cut in real terms of around $19 million in 2020-21 and $34 million in 2021-22.

In a brief comment, the Melbourne University academic referred to the ABC as “we” (or a derivative of “we”) on no fewer than ten occasions. Dr Jennings did not mention that Minister Fletcher has encouraged the ABC to sell its inner-city digs in Sydney and Melbourne and move its main buildings to the suburbs as a way of saving money. The problem is that the inner-city types at the ABC don’t want to move to Parramatta or Dandenong.

Also, Dr Jennings failed to tell viewers that the ABC is the best funded media organisation in the country. Instead she threw the switch to begging and claimed that the ABC is “being stripped bare”. And Comrade Jennings did not tell viewers that the taxpayer funded public broadcaster gets $1 billion a year. So the ABC gets over $1 billion a year but has been stripped bare. Can You Bear It?

[Black Orchid]

MELISSA DAVEY CHANGES THE TITLE OF HER BOOK TO FIT THE FACTS – WITHOUT TELLING ANYONE

Thanks to the Melbourne reader who has drawn Media Watch Dog’s attention to the very latest book title change by a journalist and his/her publisher. To wit, The Guardian Australia’s Melbourne bureau chief Melissa Davey and Henry Rosenbloom’s Scribe.

As readers will recall, Insiders panellists Niki Savva and David Crowe had to alter the title of their books in the aftermath of the 2019 election. Both envisaged accounts about how the Liberal Party’s decision to replace its leader Malcolm Turnbull with Scott Morrison in August 2018 would have led to the Coalition’s defeat at the polls the following year. Alas, it didn’t happen. So Ms Savva’s “Highway to Hell: The Coup that Destroyed Malcolm Turnbull and Left the Liberals in Ruins” became Plots and Prayers: Malcolm Turnbull’s demise and Scott Morrison’s ascension. And Mr Crowe’s “Venom: The Vendettas and Betrayals that Broke a Party” became Venom: Vendettas, Betrayals and the Price of Power.

Comrade Davey is well known to MWD readers. She was a key player in the media pile-on against Cardinal George Pell in the lead-up to his trial and conviction in the County Court of Victoria on historical child sexual offences. Ms Davey has consistently described herself as “one of a handful of journalists who sat through the entire mistrial and trial” of DPP v George Pell. In fact, no journalist saw the evidence given by the complainant – Ms Davey just made this up.

Here’s how Melissa Davey last year announced the news that she had found a publisher for her forthcoming book (then) titled A Fair Trial: Cardinal George Pell and society’s struggle to grasp child sexual abuse by clergy.

The rest is in the link and worth a read ...

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commen ... ff261c038a

[sprintcyclist]

When was the last time the ABC run a positive report on Trump?

The ABC are socialists/leftys

[Bobby]

The ABC is dealing with budget cuts: 250 jobs to go.

The ABC makes propaganda videos such as this:




The reality is this:

[Neferti]

Good! Your ABC needs to make even more "cuts". I do not watch your ABC, ever.

[Bobby]

Good! Your ABC needs to make even more "cuts". I do not watch your ABC, ever.

Do you like your money spent on fake ABC propaganda videos?

[billy the kid]

The ABC (or should I say Channel Buttrose) should be disbanded completely....
I read the OP.....
Couldn't help but notice that all the persons mentioned were of the same gender....
Monica, Emelia, Lisa, Gael, Melissa...….
WOMEN.....
But I suppose that's stock standard for Channel Buttrose…..
Men, apparently, are second grade citizens....
Aaah well....moving right along.....

[Black Orchid]

More lies from our ABC ...

In the past week, a rebadged conspiracy theory has been breathlessly promoted by the US President and conservative media pundits: OBAMAGATE!

So as Vox and others have argued, it's not worth discussing at length.

But in summary, the story is essentially an updated version of a long-running fringe theory that the Obama administration and the nefarious "deep state" illegally sabotaged Donald Trump from the very start, partly by entrapping his former national security adviser Michael Flynn in the Russia scandal.

There is no evidence to tether the vague narrative to reality.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-23/ ... y/12270002

The evidence IS out there and it's under investigation and has been confirmed. Will the ABC admit they are full of BS? Don't hold your breath. They should just stick with their outraged comrade Feminazi minority loon arm flapping and fanning the flames of fake racism. Oh wait ... they already are