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That need explains why a growing body of distinguished former ABC journalists has been voicing concerns about the public broadcaster in recent years.
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The need for a robust, independent and fearless public broadcaster is more urgent than it has ever been. Sky News has already announced that it will try to spoil the party with an upcoming documentary helmed by anti-ABC commentator Chris Kenny, promising new examinations of those perennial News Corp questions: Is the ABC is still fit for purpose, is it effectively serving mainstream Australians and does the public broadcaster unite or divide us?Īmerican journalist Masha Gessen argues that we live “in a time when intentional, systematic, destabilizing lying … lying as a way to assert or capture political power – has become the dominant factor in public life”. The sight of popping corks might otherwise unleash a Murdoch tirade against “champagne socialists” running amok.
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Notwithstanding its enormous contribution to Australian identity and culture, and its exalted status as the most reliable source of news in the country, the celebration of the ABC’s milestone birthday will be muted. This was followed by more good news in the form of a pledge to establish a proper system to appoint ABC board directors on merit. The incoming communications minister, Michelle Rowland, publicly committed to a new five-year funding term from 2023, a move intended to provide the public broadcaster with financial stability beyond the three-year election cycle and, in Rowland’s words, “safeguard against those arbitrary cuts and political interference that we’ve seen”. On the eve of its 90th birthday, the ABC received some unambiguously good news. Years of government attacks over funding and balance have left the national broadcaster in desperate need of repair