“With commercial business models — whether print or broadcast — failing, newsrooms shrinking, drama budgets dwindling, funding the ABC to tell Australian stories is more essential than ever.”
Jonathan Holmes, former host of Media Watch.
The ABC has never been under greater attack in its long and storied history than it is now. Almost $340 million has been cut from its base funding since 2014.
Programs have been axed, locally produced drama is way down, foreign bureaux have been closed and hundreds of years of journalistic experience has been lost.
ABC journalists simply doing their job are attacked on an almost daily basis by Coalition politicians.
Attacks on the ABC are nothing new, but Quentin Dempster says the current hostility is “the worst we’ve seen”.
On top of funding cuts, “fair and balanced” legislation, a steady stream of politically-motivated complaints and inquiries, we now have the Liberal Party federal council voting 4:1 in favour of selling off the ABC.
But the ABC isn’t theirs to sell. It belongs to us, the Australian public, and it’s time to start fighting back.
Jonathan Holmes, former host of Media Watch.
The ABC has never been under greater attack in its long and storied history than it is now. Almost $340 million has been cut from its base funding since 2014.
Programs have been axed, locally produced drama is way down, foreign bureaux have been closed and hundreds of years of journalistic experience has been lost.
ABC journalists simply doing their job are attacked on an almost daily basis by Coalition politicians.
Attacks on the ABC are nothing new, but Quentin Dempster says the current hostility is “the worst we’ve seen”.
On top of funding cuts, “fair and balanced” legislation, a steady stream of politically-motivated complaints and inquiries, we now have the Liberal Party federal council voting 4:1 in favour of selling off the ABC.
But the ABC isn’t theirs to sell. It belongs to us, the Australian public, and it’s time to start fighting back.
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