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The Worm Factory

Jonathan Holmes, the ABC’s supercilious presenter of Media Watch is stepping down. I suggest only rusted-on supporters of ABC bias will miss his pompous leer and greasy persona.

While the ABC has many excellent and well-researched programmes I point to Media Watch and the appointing of presenters that flag their leftist ideology from the Worm Factory rooftop. Media Watch has cycled a muster of seven presenters, all of them cloned in like ideology beginning with Stuart Littlemore, Richard Ackland, Paul Barry, David Marr, Liz Jackson, Monica Attard and, Jonathan Holmes.

Trying to broach the subject of bias with anyone inside the ABC’s Worm Factory incubator is futile. Sidetracking the tunnel-visioned political correctness would be like  converting the Pope to Islam. No amount of complaining or lobbying bears fruit or consideration from the executive, including managing director Mark Scott as all seem programmed to ignore the corporation’s own Editorial Policies to “… support the diversity of perspectives.”

Scott is quick to defend all epithets of bias by wheeling out his host of Counterpoint, former Liberal minister Amanda Vanstone as would a pathologist present his favourite specimen, a shrivelled appendix in a bottle of formaldehyde, That an enigma like Vanstone is permitted to tread the corridors of Labor greats must have countless production managers gagging on their mung bean wraps.

White Virginia Trioli doesn’t get it

Peter-Ben Terpstra exposes the Absolutely Bias Corporation's (ABC) presenter Virginia Trioli as little more than a prejudiced croupier who deals the race card for effect. Personal bias is fine, but ill serving when delivering news shaped to fit. GC.Ed.@L.

In response to a bloody terrorist attack, “our” ABC pulled out the race card. Or as one divisive headline shouted, “Indigenous Australian runner safe in Boston.”

Seriously. 

I was also offended last Tuesday when “our” taxpayer-funded ABC News Breakfast presenter, Virginia Trioli, casually injected her politics into an important news story. Or as she editorialised, in response to two major explosions in Boston, “It seems to many we are overly focusing on what happens to rich white people in the West, versus what happens on a daily basis in those countries” (meaning Iraq and Afghanistan). 

So, where did Trioli’s “many” assertion come from?  No source was provided. And, what is meant by “we”? I’m confused. 

Moreover, “our” ABC didn’t emphasis the following:

ABC not biased - Turnbull

Tony Abbott can ill afford Turnbull's undermining bleats in this election year. Something needs to be done. GC.Ed.

Abbott wants ABC to flush out bias but Turnbull does not see its stacked deck

In an exclusive interview with The Australian Financial Review shortly before Christmas, Abbott said that ''there is still this left-of-centre ethos in the ABC'' and expressed hope that the managing director of the ABC, Mark Scott, ''continues to address it''. Abbott commented that there is much about the public broadcaster that he likes and admires.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/abbott-wants-abc-to-flush-out-bias-but-turnbull-does-not-see-its-stacked-deck-20130107-2ccq2.html#ixzz2HK3h1UWy

Imposed Censorship!

Allan Essery contends that commenting on opinion pieces in leftist media is waste of time. Dissenting comments don't make the grade. More fool them as they preach only to their ilk - no new customers. Maybe that's why such publications suffer plummeting sales.

If you contribute comments to opinion pieces and editorials in the Sydney Morning Herald or The Age, it doesn’t take long to work out that their ‘Moderators’ work outside their own rules to assign comments that they deem inappropriate to the rubbish bin.  God forbid you should criticize one of their leftist journalists, regardless of what tripe they dish up in the belief that they are being fair, honest and balanced.

They also disregard their own rules when it suits them to publish comment that is so obviously a breach of those rules, but so obviously supportive of their leftist agenda.  This in my opinion constitutes a form or unreasonable and inconsistent censorship and removes your freedom of speech.

There is a little club of regulars, and very much left-leaning contributors, who can be found in the comments sections every day, all day.  They take over the comments sections and prattle on to each other with, in the main, pure drivel that has little to do with the subject at hand.  They are rude, offensive and intolerant of anyone from outside their little clique who dares to have something to say.  These people, who are all pro-Labor, are given the freedom to say what they like, but try and serve it back to them and you will be rejected.