"He should stop complaining about media coverage and start behaving like a Prime Minister."

[i-need-a-martini]

My thoughts exactly Tanya Plibersek.

He spent the morning having a love-fest with Hadley and ripped into the ABC. He said: Mr Abbott also said that it ''dismays Australians when the national broadcaster appears to take everybody's side but our own'', adding, ''I think that is a problem''.

I suspect that the ABC's professionalism doesn't dismay Australian in the least. Does he think he is running an autocracy? Or perhaps a Communist country where the media only says what the government allows it to say?

Is he even listening to himself?

What Australian would want a national broadcaster that doesn't investigate, ask questions, report truth? What is the medias role if not to do exactly that.

And doesn't he have more IMPORTANT things to do? Like a country to run? Or some policies to create? The latter would be a novel idea.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/tony-abbott-blasts-national-broadcaster-abc-ta...

[polksaladallie]

Listen to this interview with Lib Ian McDonald aired this morning.  Typical of the narrow views of the government.

http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2014/01/bst_20140130_0735.mp3

[twyngwyn]

http://www.smh.com.au/comment/blogs/blunt-instrument/somebody-call-the-waaaambulance--the-abc-has-be...

[boris1gary]

excellent article

[***super_nova***]

Actually, ABC goes into an extraordinary trouble to provide opposing views in every program they produce; they never could afford to do anything else.   If LNP does not get more airtime that is often because they refuse to come to programs they are invited to.

However, providing this sort of 'balance" is not really balanced at all.  Even when vast majority of qualified people are sure that it is our CO2 emission that is responsible for climate change, if you have to drag out one of the lunatic fringe   every time you have a somebody who knows what he is talking about, it leaves impression that for every YES there is one NO.

[spotweldersfriend]

No surprises with Newman.Howard used Ray Evans of Western Mining Corp.to write his climate change denial rubbish. The IPA in Australia took funding from Shell,Mobil,Philip Morris,BAT and Woodside Petroleum to push the anti global warming barrow.

[the_great_she_elephant]

The Prime Minister said yesterday that the ABC, like all media organisations, was entitled to report "credible evidence".

But "you shouldn't leap to be critical of your own country".

Credible means capable of being believed. it doesn't mean proven...

 If  someone steps  off a boat with burns to his hands (burns which can plainly be seen in video footage) and makies a claim as to how those burns were inflicted, I would have thought those burns would constitute credible evidence that he might telling the truth.

I don't recall the ABC ever stating whether or not they believed the evidence - merely that it existed and should be investigated.

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