Here’s an amusing game to play… Listen to any ABC News bulletin – television or radio – and after each story, say the words, ‘And the government should do something about it!’ Unsurprisingly, you’ll find that nine times out of ten it will make perfect sense.
This, more than any survey of how much airtime is given to one political party or the other, is an excellent way to unearth the unconscious bias of our national broadcaster.
ABC News has become The National Whinge, containing story after story of everyone with a problem that has yet to be solved by the State, written...
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