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Flying Binghi Senior Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 252 Australia Gender:	Sell ABC TV and Radio Jul 6^th, 2011 at 9:21pm . Why does the Australian Government have an interest in a TV and Radio network ? Time to flog it off perhaps ? Would it be worth anything ? .
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Flying Binghi Senior Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 252 Australia Gender:	Re: Sell ABC TV and Radio Reply #1 - Jul 7^th, 2011 at 9:40am . Hmmm.. .
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Dnarever Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 62414 Here Gender:	Re: Sell ABC TV and Radio Reply #2 - Jul 7^th, 2011 at 10:05am Almost as stupid as selling Telstra.
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Flying Binghi Senior Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 252 Australia Gender:	Re: Sell ABC TV and Radio Reply #3 - Jul 7^th, 2011 at 12:05pm . Quote: via Dnarever: Almost as stupid as selling Telstra. Why do you think that Dnarever.. .
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Reply #4 - Jul 7^th, 2011 at 12:09pm

Flying Binghi wrote on Jul 6^th, 2011 at 9:21pm:

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Why does the Australian Government have an interest in a TV and Radio network ?

Time to flog it off perhaps ?

Would it be worth anything ?

The government is there to do the bidding of the public. It's a necessity that the public be informed on national affairs by a media that is independent and unaligned to any political faction. One only has to be aware of the corruption scandle currently embroiling the Murdoch media group to understand this.

It's also very good for brand Australia to have a TV network that's committed to producing quality drama made locally. Every Australian actor, director, writer and cameraman of international renown got their breaks on ABC dramas.

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Reply #5 - Jul 7^th, 2011 at 8:19pm

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via Grey: It's a necessity that the public be informed on national affairs by a media that is independent and unaligned to any political faction.

You is joking there Grey, surely ?..

'Our' abc just put out a very miss-leading programme that has cost the Australian people 100's of millions of dollars and caused huge grief to many Australians and grossly insulted Indonesia.

abc media is not working for Australia's interests.

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via Grey: One only has to be aware of the corruption scandle currently embroiling the Murdoch media group to understand this

Poor attempt at a distracter there Grey. Though, do tell me about this corruption in the Murdoch Oz media interests..

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via Grey: It's also very good for brand Australia to have a TV network that's committed to producing quality drama made locally. Every Australian actor, director, writer and cameraman of international renown got their breaks on ABC dramas.

Every other Australian business must compete globaly, why should any Australian media organisation be any different ?..

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Reply #6 - Jul 8^th, 2011 at 12:25am

A moronic idea; ABC is the only channel worth watching in regards to news and Current Affairs, and that's because it's owned by the Government.

We don't need yet another channel falling to the agenda driven tripe train. The day ABC put the Bingle/Clark bullsh!t before other clearly more important issues is the day Aussie T.V becomes useless.

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Reply #7 - Jul 8^th, 2011 at 1:35pm

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A moronic idea; ABC is the only channel worth watching in regards to news and Current Affairs, and that's because it's owned by the Government.

Actually it's independent of government but receives public funds.

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'Our' abc just put out a very miss-leading programme that has cost the Australian people 100's of millions of dollars and caused huge grief to many Australians and grossly insulted Indonesia.

abc media is not working for Australia's interests.

It certainly was not misleading. It broadcast facts about the slaughter of animals that most Australians found very disturbing. How the public and parliment responded to those facts is not the responsibility of the ABC.

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Poor attempt at a distracter there Grey. Though, do tell me about this corruption in the Murdoch Oz media interests..

If you know nothing about the scandal embroiling the Murdoch media empire then you have no business here. Try googling Murdoch+phone taps+police bribes.

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Every other Australian business must compete globaly, why should any Australian media organisation be any different ?..

Different from Britain, America, Canada, France, Germany...virtually every other country in the world which all have publicly funded television stations? You tell me. I've already explained why they all have them.

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Reply #8 - Jul 11^th, 2011 at 9:15am

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Actually it's independent of government but receives public funds.

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The government is there to do the bidding of the public. It's a necessity that the public be informed on national affairs by a media that is independent and unaligned to any political faction

Hmmm... in my daily life outside of forums i'm yet to hear anybody claim the ABC is impartial.. Huh

Yer always need to go to the internet to double check anything from the Oz ABC.

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It certainly was not misleading. It broadcast facts about the slaughter of animals that most Australians found very disturbing. How the public and parliment responded to those facts is not the responsibility of the ABC.

Thats looking to be incorrect. Those meat workers portrayed in the programm are now known to have been paid by the film crew... were it an admitance cost, or something else ? Looks like more to come yet...

WA Liberal Senator, Chris Back, the only experienced veterinarian in the Federal parliament, said there was a major cloud hanging over the ABC program and associated footage supplied by Animals Australia.

The extreme animal rights group has an uncompromising agenda to end the live export trade altogether, despite unprecedented work from industry to improve animal welfare practices in foreign markets.

Senator Back said he is pushing to find out more about the vision's origins.

He said more than anything else, "I want to know about the integrity of that footage".

http://www.charters-towers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=322

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If you know nothing about the scandal embroiling the Murdoch media empire then you have no business here

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Try reading my post again Grey... "do tell me about this corruption in the Murdoch Oz media interests"

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You tell me. I've already explained why they all have them

Repeat - Every other Australian business must compete globaly, why should any Australian media organisation be any different ?...

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Grey Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 5341 Gender:	Re: Sell ABC TV and Radio Reply #9 - Jul 11^th, 2011 at 9:51am http://www.abc.net.au/corp/pubs/ABCcharter.htm
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Flying Binghi Senior Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 252 Australia Gender:	Re: Sell ABC TV and Radio Reply #10 - Jul 11^th, 2011 at 7:56pm . Hmmm... sounds a bit suss to me.. "...Lyn White ...from Animals Australia ...said she had no idea her driver had paid the workers for the access." http://www.charters-towers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=329 .
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Grey Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 5341 Gender:	Re: Sell ABC TV and Radio Reply #11 - Jul 13^th, 2011 at 6:34pm Give it up Flying, it's my ABC and i'm just not selling
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Flying Binghi Senior Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 252 Australia Gender:	Re: Sell ABC TV and Radio Reply #12 - Jul 19^th, 2011 at 9:57pm . Quote: it's my ABC and i'm just not selling Good oh. You can pay fer it to.. .
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Flying Binghi Senior Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 252 Australia Gender:	Re: Sell ABC TV and Radio Reply #13 - Jul 19^th, 2011 at 10:47pm . ... "Can't touch me, I work for the ABC" Until the election, sweetheart. Until the election. http://bunyipitude.blogspot.com/2011/07/missing-link.html .
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Flying Binghi Senior Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 252 Australia Gender:	Re: Sell ABC TV and Radio Reply #14 - Jul 20^th, 2011 at 9:57pm . "ABC managing director Mark Scott was sent a government warning last week about the conditions of the $223 million tender for Australia's overseas broadcasting service..." http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/abc-warned-on-approaching-minis... .
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