Defund the ABC

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I rarely visit the ABC these days. This is ridiculous, given it is my job to visit news sites.

It has nothing worth reporting on, so there is no point.

Instead, it is overrun with tripe:

The ABC has tasked one of its senior journalists with investigating how to create “culturally safe newsrooms” as the public broadcaster reels from allegations of racism levelled by Antoinette Lattouf, who was removed from air last month.

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In a lengthy email to staff, the public broadcaster’s news chief, Justin Stevens, urged the newsroom to “pull together” and “stay united” after weeks of acrimony about whether senior managers were protecting ABC staff from accusations of bias.

“We cannot change societal issues but what is in our control is our workplace culture and how we treat each other,” Mr Stevens wrote in his note to staff.

Diversity targets are steadily transforming the ABC from a news organisation into a creche for the culturally vulnerable. A woke playschool that shuts out the real world as an unsettling fiction.

This is openly ludicrous for a news organisation. The truth is not “safe”, and trying to make it so will only consume its reason for being.

The ABC is already doomed as young audiences switch it off to choose whatever tailored reality they enjoy.

Now, the ABC will kill off its legacy viewership as it cancels itself from existence.

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We might as well kill it ourselves now and save a few billion.

About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.