I wrote before about the ABC’s bias and the real cost of the ABC to the Australian community. Since then the Abbott government has announced reasonable budget cuts but the ABC has sunk further into its betrayal of its Charter and of the Australian community.
How could you trust an organisation which lies like that and distorts public information?
You can’t. So when on page 6 of its report the ABC gloats that 84% of the Australian people think it provides a valuable service you cannot believe this.
The ‘lady’ in the photograph is Whitney Fitzsimmons host of the ABC’s Business Today. Would you want to do business with her?
Trioli was a supporter of Bin Laden after 9/11.
Even old Quentin Dempster can’t help but get into the act: he calls the ABC cuts “a piece of Tony Abbott/Rupert Murdoch bastardry”.
The point is: why doesn’t the ABC show the same commitment to plurality that Murdoch does, when, unlike Murdoch, it is actually legally obliged to?
The answer of course is that the ABC has not been brought to heel but allowed to continue on its path of betrayal by ALP governments which it favours and also weak coalition governments.
In a mature democracy where anyone can start their own media outlet it is a nonsense that a hugely expensive media outlet which is palpably biased towards one section of the community should have its funding provided by all the community.
That the ABC views the community with contempt is clearly shown by the actions of Mark Scott, who has admitted he cannot control the ABC, and his cuts to those sections of the ABC which may impact most on the conservative section of the community.
Such contempt should not be rewarded by further funding.
The T-shirts are ethically produced, printed in Melbourne and Ford is going to direct profits to towards just three organisations that she says will be worse off under an Abbott government: The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, The Aboriginal Legal Service and The Council for Single Mothers and Their Children.
This is for all the pro-Abbott folks out there who hate my t-shirts. I’ve made around $4500 in profit in two days … Some profits going to charity though!
So, from profits to date, that’s a lousy $300 each to the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, the Aboriginal Legal Service and the Council for Single Mothers and Their Children, while privileged Clementine pockets a handy $3600 – including, no doubt, some cash from gullible buyers who believed the Age‘s line about profit donations.
As an antidote to the crushing reality of a Post-Abbott world she’s created some cathartic T-shirts with slogans that include ‘Abbott is not my Prime Minister’ which can be bought online.
This article is where your education starts.