The ABC are given millions more in hard-earned taxpayer funds, soon after an extra $100 million in March, but are clueless in how to attract an audience. I believe their ideology is blinding them, from the CEO downwards. Andrew Bolt:
[...] Spreading the state media’s reach into-online publication is a direct attack on Fairfax, which needs the exact same audience to pay for its own product if it is to survive.
Why is Labor starving Fairfax like this? I suspect it’s because they fear it will fall to Gina Rinehart, so can be cut loose already.
Behold, then, the rise of the state media in Australia – the propaganda arm of the Big Government on which it relies. The friend of the Left whose support ensures that Big Government thrives.
This is the Left funding a permanent opposition to taxpayers, using the taxpayers’ own cash.
UPDATE
Tim Blair notes that ABC managing director Mark Scott, who feigned ignorance of the overwhelmingly Leftist bias of his presenters, now says he’s taking inspiration from Left-wing programs in the US:
ABC managing director Mark Scott said he would ask a team of journalists and digital and entertainment experts to find creative ways to deliver news to children and teenagers.
Mr Scott cited the popular US satirical programs The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report as examples of shows that melded news and entertainment in a package that appealed to younger audiences …
Actually, the most popular current affairs show on cable in the US – and by a mile – is not The Daily Show but Fox News’ The O’Reilly Factor. From the ratings last week (which I have cut and pasted):
O’Reilly has more than double Stewart’s audience and nearly triple Colbert’s. Even O’Reilly’s repeat outrates The Daily Show, screening in the same timeslot:
So why did Scott not cite Bill O’Reilly as the model? Other than the fact that his is a conservative show, I mean, and Scott’s preferences are of the Left:[...]
Read the rest …
