Edited by Lee Duffield
Freedom and Truth
Monday, July 27, 2020, 11:53 pm
The start of August means three months to the American election on Tuesday 3 November, a contest watched more closely than ever before following Donald Trump’s recent reversal of fortunes.
Saturday, July 25, 2020, 3:28 pm
Last month’s announcement of 250 more job cuts, out of 4650 staff at the ABC, highlighted the organisation’s problems keeping up standards demanded by its charter. Is the professional broadcaster in danger of getting turned into a bull-ring of amateurs and squabbling ideologues?
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The war on the ABC and its options for survival
Wednesday, July 29, 2020, 4:37 pm
Reported by Lee Duffield
Official Australian state policy on its public broadcaster, ABC, since 2014, has been to throttle it through withdrawing its budget by stages, while abusing it through Liberal-linkaged commercial media – Newscorp newspapers, 2GB radio network and Sky News pay television. There is also a sub-plot that involves, while the ABC survives, pressing it to deliver positive messaging for the government of the day.