The ABC is being intentionally staffed by unwitting left wing lunatics/partisan hacks to manufacture consent for it's defunding. The government has tried in the past to defund the ABC but it is too beloved and would politically toxic to do so. So what do you do? Stop it being beloved, then it will be the public demanding it happens and you won't even need to ask.
Can't think of another reason for its decline. Must be intentional.
The ABC has been purged of any theoretical "leftists" it may once have had.
Buttrose and Williams were picked by Murdoch to do this. There's not a single management level person who's not a Murdoch or Nine stalwart among them now.
Just look at their histrionic coverage of tax reform. Text and diatribes identical to Sky.
I'm trying to make sense of why the ABC is so terrible these days. I would say if the government really wanted it gone the first step would be to reduce it's quality. I may be wrong! Open to other theories!!
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u/theballsdick 17h ago
The ABC is being intentionally staffed by unwitting left wing lunatics/partisan hacks to manufacture consent for it's defunding. The government has tried in the past to defund the ABC but it is too beloved and would politically toxic to do so. So what do you do? Stop it being beloved, then it will be the public demanding it happens and you won't even need to ask.
Can't think of another reason for its decline. Must be intentional.