Andrew Bolt: Budgets deliver plenty to our biased ABC
The ABC is now so big and lethal that political parties effectively have to bribe its news division before an election but the Liberals know this biased organisation must be cut drastically to size, to allow more freedom for debate, writes Andrew Bolt.
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The ABC is now so big and lethal that political parties effectively bribe its news division before an election, hoping to keep the state broadcaster sweet.
In 2013, for instance, the Gillard government notoriously announced just months before
the election that it would give the ABC $10 million above its budgeted funding, and all of it for reporters and regional news gathering.
This year, the ABC’s love does not come so cheap.
SHORTEN PLEDGES TO BACK ABC IF LABOR WINS
Labor leader Bill Shorten has promised the ABC, which already gets $1 billion a year, another
$84 million over three years.
Even the Morrison Government paid off the ABC in Tuesday’s Budget.
Under pressure and just a month before the election, it agreed to give an extra
$43.7 million over three years, again to the ABC news and current affairs division.
Have you seen clearer evidence that the ABC is too big and biased for a healthy democracy?
Just about every Liberal MP will privately admit the ABC is overwhelmingly anti-Liberal.
On Wednesday morning, Prime Minister Scott Morrison repeatedly accused ABC host Jon Faine, a vehement Leftist, of even “lying” about the government’s funding of the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
The fledgling NDIS has already expanded to a $17.5 billion a year behemoth, yet Faine falsely claimed the government was deliberately starving it of cash so it could post a Budget surplus, and he talked over Morrison’s attempts to correct the record.
Really, if the Liberals found a cure for cancer, the ABC would accuse it of putting
doctors out of work.
Also on Wednesday, Sabra Lane, host of the ABC’s flagship AM, accused Treasurer Josh Frydenberg of offering tax cuts that were too small — “Twenty bucks a week? That’s not even a schnitzel and a beer” — before accusing Frydenberg of offering tax cuts that were too big: “That is an awful lot of money being doled out very quickly.”
Yet this is the ABC the government thinks should have even more money, when it already dominates political debate with its four national TV stations, five national radio stations, and
online newspaper.
The truth, as Liberals also know, is this biased ABC must be cut drastically to size, to allow more freedom for debate.
In fact, the Liberals have just proved how dangerously big the ABC is.
Do you think they wanted
to hand over that cash to their enemies?
Originally published as Andrew Bolt: Budgets deliver plenty to our biased ABC
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