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The reason it is NOT the story, is that it is not in the ABC,s interest ( or other medias interest ) to acknowledge there has been a culture of political bias in the ABC for decades. It is this political bias that is at the root of this issue, including calls made to the ABC by Malcolm Turnbull to express concern about factual errors resulting in politically unbalanced reporting. It is widely accepted that both the ABC board and many of its leading reporters have not followed their respective legislated charters for many years in regards to impartiality of reporting.
Maybe it is time to have a royal commission into the ABC to find out how it came to this and to recommend changes that will in future restore the organisation to its proper purpose. Simply plastering over the current cracks will not address the structural changes that need to be made to restore the publics confidence in the organisation. The ABC board has been asleep at the wheel and needs to go.
The Right claim the ABC is to far Left and the Left claim the ABC is to far Right. The Right’s idea for the ABC is to use the IPA template and Lefts idea is anybody’s guess. You only have to recall Liberal Senator’s Richard Alston’s notorious rant in 2003 about an ABC interview with a US “embedded” reporter in regard to the welcome Coalition forces would receive in the invasion of Iraq to get an idea of what the Government expects of the ABC. If you don’t recall The US (and Australian) Government was telling the troops and public that the coalition forces would receive a reception of roses and cheering, instead they received abuse, booing, rocks, night soil and any other rubbish the locals could throw at them.
Both Howard and Abbott both tried to re-shape the ABC board/management to suit their own political beliefs as required by the IPA .
