Andrew Bolt: Shows reveal extent of ABC bias
The ABC is meant by law to provide balance. Instead, it seems determined to whip up hatred of the kind shown so shockingly on Q&A last week, writes Andrew Bolt.
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It’s now a week since the ABC broadcast calls for political violence, including arson and murder, but the ABC’s boss still can’t say that was wrong.
Managing director David Anderson just says: “We … will investigate whether the program met the ABC’s editorial standards.”
Investigate? The ABC still needs to investigate whether its Q&A program was wrong last week to broadcast — unchallenged — no fewer than four panellists defending political violence, with one urging women to “kill” men they thought were rapists and another suggesting Aborigines “burn stuff”?
But when even the boss can’t immediately say that inciting murder and arson is against the ABC’s “editorial standards”, you know our taxpayer-funded national broadcaster is totally captured by the radical Left, and no conservative is safe.
One small sign of that came a week ago at the ABC’s annual Andrew Olle Lecture, this time given by Leftist Peter FitzSimons.
On the broadcast you can hear the ABC’s hand-picked audience laugh and clap as FitzSimons tells with glee how one of his mates assaulted a conservative journalist, Piers Akerman, throwing a glass of wine at him.
The hypocrites. This same ABC was outraged last July when a man threw yoghurt at ABC star Leigh Sales. Sales’ attacker was charged; Akerman’s attacker is cheered.
But a more troubling sign of the ABC’s agenda came last week, when it unveiled next year’s programs.
The bias is astonishing.
For a start, there will be two series on global warming from eco-warrior Craig Reucassel.
But why two? Why not one series from Reucassel and the second from someone with a different perspective?
Answer: because Reucassel is guaranteed to push the ABC’s global warming hysteria.
He will present Fight For Planet A, on how to cut our emissions, and Big Weather (and How to Survive It), which is actually based on a false alarm.
No, Craig, we’re not in more danger from dying from weather disasters. That risk has instead plummeted 99 per cent over the past century, according to the International Disasters Database.
What’s more, we’re getting fewer cyclones, bigger world grain crops, a greener planet and longer life expectancy.
But the ABC’s head of factual and entertainment, Josie Mason-Campbell, seems to me to speak for an ABC that prefers activism to information. She boasts that Reucassel will “change attitudes”.
The ABC will next year also step up its attack on the Catholic Church, with a series on child sexual abuse — but only abuse by Catholic priests.
Why won’t it instead present a series for once on how Cardinal George Pell was convicted of child abuse when, as I’ve shown here, he could not possibly have committed the crime as alleged?
Why not a show on how the ABC helped to railroad Pell, not least by devoting an entire 7.30 program to allegations against him that were so thin they never made it to trial?
The ABC will also devote no less than two series — Maralinga, a documentary, and Fallout, a thriller — to feeding the myth that atomic tests at Maralinga caused terrible radiation sickness among Aborigines.
The ABC persists in this green mythmaking even though the 1984 royal commission into the seven tests at Maralinga and Emu Junction couldn’t find a single cause of death, let alone illness, that could be convincingly blamed on radiation.
There will also be a series on another ABC obsession — a refugee drama, starring Cate Blanchett. Let me guess: Australia racist, refugees good?
More startlingly, the ABC will help amateur historian Bruce Pascoe, who says he’s Aboriginal, to reinvent Aboriginal history in ways that appeal to anti-Western activists.
Pascoe will present a series based on his book Dark Emu, which claims Aborigines were more developed than historians claim, allegedly having extensive farms, stone houses, large villages, big granaries and even democracy.
Having Pascoe present this ensures we won’t hear from historians who might point out that he misquotes sources, exaggerates and extrapolates wildly.
This will be history as the ABC wishes it had been — one that fosters resentment against an Australia the ABC imagines as hopelessly racist. Oh, and it will have Stan Grant push that line with his own documentary.
The ABC is meant by law to provide balance. Instead, it is uniformly hostile to conservatives and to Western culture, Australia’s especially. It seems determined to whip up hatred of the kind shown so shockingly on Q&A last week.
The ABC is not simply too biased and big for a healthy democracy. It’s now at war against it.