The ABC will go down in history as a group of failed science class members who then failed to teach science

Don't get me wrong. There are some areas of reporting in the ABC where  they have been doing an OK job  ( eg some areas of medicine and health science )  but the respect for sound full science reporting is now rare and even the good studies of health reporting are not helping in the maelstrom of simplified nonsense that the club have agreed to over the last 40 years in particular .





Thanks in part to neglected reporting by the ABC , the profession of ecological economists ( the new progressive edge of resilience science  EE's ) who work with the real resource issues, is now defunct .

In labelling the green side of politics the good side, the ABC have become too political and lost their independence there. 
Compare that with medical profession which is still in a strong position to defend its territory.  Many competent health care professionals struggled through the political takeover of COVID risk by politics and  must regret, like we do,  that proper discussion of interference medicine and health care  ( edgy science stuff that  needs testing )  is increasingly difficult, very draining ( defence of our profession is   not what most of us want to do )  and sometimes just impossible - we go silent and go back to work .Hijacking of science is not new and was the sort of concrete danger and threat that Whitehead and Ellul anticipated over 100 years ago; few know 
There are now many silent and silence competency associations who the ABC don't even know about. Let's call them the "zipped "club .   Zipped and tight lipped ZATLOP's   

The problem Australians now have is best illustrated by the fact they cannot trust the ABC to report on ecological economy and environmental risk ; and haven't been for decades, This arrogant incompetence , has of course made most of Australia's most productive citizens on the land go mad.    The ABC is no longer welcome in the country for its arrogant incompetence on matters of conservation science and practice in particular.  (apparent exceptions like Landline , Back roads and Gardening Australia should be discussed later in their proper contexts)
The whole EE profession has become too political and a proper discussion too long winded to properly engage the wider audience.  Maybe the baby has been thrown out with the dishwater?

It is the ABC and our inadequate education and mentoring system that are largely responsible for this massive distraction from a much-needed goal. Our children's failure to enjoy the idea of a career working with people who work with nature is one of the consequences of this.  Australia could and should be a lead trainer of people in resilience and ecological economic EE science; instead of bench testers we have screen testers.  Instead of training foreign students to help them manage their own land (eg  the old Columbo plan) we offer our land to foreigners.  Like Romanians, the slow East , the failed USSR , the authoritarian  states, and all those who are too slow to move with history and new industry ( including EE ) we will reap the poverty rewards of too much focus on land alone. 

A lesser known reality is that by taking the lead in science classes where they are not qualified to do so ,  the ABC club have dumbed down the issues and left our children with more fear and confusion than anyone of us who knows their territory in sound scientific planning would have ever expected. . This is a huge area of importance for the future, but one that has little proper focus on it. 
The ABC , when not doing kindergarten science offer us razzamatazz and quick fiz .Someone like Todd Sampson and ABC producers, just don't get it.   

The fact that  so many western children know so little about how the world works is deeply disturbing and I  encourage you the reader to not give up in pursuing the full set of answers  so that our children can enjoy designing and working with nature rather than simply fearing the consequences of man's inevitable failures to properly engage with  it .  Don't ever dismiss the misanthropes either 

So how could this be ? There is nothing the ABC like to talk more about than applied science . 
The clue is the leadership within the organization and the culture of nature and science worship ( some would say scientism)  that has largely replaced the respect for true reporting of edgy science arguments. Australia needs a very robust independent science association that builds from the regions up.  

A driver for so much fearmongering in the ABC seems to be simply the clubs denial that they really understand its role in developing and promoting advances in scientific understanding. They know Shoemaker ( communication of innovations ) but little else . Like many of the commercial media they understand enough science to be dangerous ; being more techno tragics  than patient testers as Ellul put it ;  and are selling solutions that have not been tested . The ABC need to run a lot more programs on the scrapheap challenges of history .   


This distracted agency is nothing new .Regional people are seen by the city as backward. Children think they know more than their parents and teachers.

Who should the public trust ? 
Inexperienced people often think that wisdom origins itself at University , I am a member of an international science agency and the biggest  problem with the many academics in that organisation is that  they cannot easily commit to real world decsion making : They say nothing or nothing that hasn't been through the rocky horror show of citations
.If the ABC knew what they were doing they would realize that experienced professionals face risks everyday and learn and develop confidence by testing theory on the ground;  the things that most academics are not really responsible for 
 Most Academics are so specialized that they can say nothing edgy because they know so much about such a small area, Careless one who get their faces on the media should not be easily trusted because wise trustable ones are aware of the limitations of their brief .  Wise ones can be Zatlops too! 

The people should trust the locals, who know the country
 Regional people are seen by the city as backward. This old perception still dogs better understanding of modern reality for many reasons.
It's now the dependant and distant wage city based earners who are distant, Their connection with real world risk is through unreliable mediums. They see bt do not understand and are very vulnerable to the media link person 
 The bloke who turned the world upside down was dismissed by many because he came from  the country - Nazareth . 


Australians need to commit to understanding where confidence , knowledge , ecological economics and competence  is really built.  

Trying to be nice

Funny or Serious ? I wonder if they know? 

 Many of us oldies grew up with the ABC , It was a tougher and more disciplined beast than it is now .
Our parents taught us correctly that going to church there was better than going to church anywhere else . And so it used to be when we all went to the ABC  . When it was humble and disciplined like a sound profession of reporting can be.
When the class of failed scientists didn't try to educate us about science, like they have been trying to do for 30 years. 

Paradoxically most of learnt from Jesus to never trust in mere authorities. That includes any church majority as the history of it trying to please people was what would destroy any good church in a day. 

But times have changed, and the world view the ABC is trying to appeal to has moved on. Instead of  a rugged Christian worldview of the search for truth and the evil inside , the audience is content with the old dark age and sentimental fearfilled views that any evil, should it exist,( not sure are we?  exists in something external. The problem is not in you but around you ,  



The robust idea of reporting all individuals has gone.  Maybe some reporters ( not ABC of course ) are trying to trick us ???
Those of us who know things, know we can't trust the ABC to know very much. The ABC  clearly to this day edit what goes to air to suit agendas and club commentary themes. Like the people, they are actually afraid of knowing too much.  We all have to weigh up how much prejudice is around . We still want it tight,  but every bit has to be right or we switch off -- and we are switching the ABC off  because it is not tight. 

 Not that we would ever expect the ABC staff to know much anyway. It's early reporters like Elizabeth bond , and Randall McDonald would not cut you off but really welcome the diversity, Diversity of opinion has only grown in the real world . Is there not  now the restricted world that only no knows heaps of facts and because it could never cope with sound science ( which science where ) it does not yet know  it needs a back road to come home through.

Pleasing Todays world view means trying to please the wind .The world view has returned to the worship of the superficial. Popular imagery, as McLuhan says, determines the message.   There is no longer any need for origins of evil because according to the new innocents, it doesn't exist .

Worse still the staff fail in science and so we are left with their incompetent speculations on superficial feelings, worship of tech heroes and Compassion and Nature as the gods of choice ( which clearly Nature having compassion is does not) .C&N are in conflict . 
Conflict is inevitable in nature which means the ABC is often useless in helping us  understand and deal with conflict.   

Since there is no expectation of the evil within , everything is perceived good on the outside. 
This pathetically shallow sentimental remnant of the tough nature of the beast that  is what makes us some of the most thin and pathetic groups in the modern  world,

Somehow we think we can change the world - the very atmosphere infact. 

We are rich, live on an island, and fancy ourselves as some of most fair-minded people in the world; . This  feeblemindedness, based as it is on a simple self-righteous feeding game where we the threatened, agree that we are all good blokes, is no doubt what Mr Chamberlain represented when he left his country naked for war in 1945.

ABCTV is such a mixed bag -----its unwatchable

 In trying to please everybody, the ABC is pleasing nobody. Many clearly commentate when they should just report, which makes them worse than much Commercial media. Young reporters are not well trained when old hands add adjectives and write what they feel and like to say and fill their reports with feelings. 

The incompetent United Nations may support gas lighting or the stupid tyranny of silencing anyone  who elicits anger,  but God help us if we stop people speaking freely on that basis ; None of us would remain married.  

A childlike reactionary lot 
I am sure that ABC Melbourne, ABC NEWS and QANDA did not , for example, realize their respectful thinking audience were switching them off well before the stats came in.   
Many thinking country people were switching them off a decade ago , but the comfort club did not know .
I feel for all those in the country who relied on 3LO and Radio National . Sky news is not perfect but The ABC is now untrustworthy ( esp on matters that affect big picture ECO) and country people are listening to other sources; Not ideal . 

Toward a more sustainable Independant Broadcaster 
Most of the old club should retire; they have had their chance to perform .The competency levels required to report on economy and environment MUST move with the need for higher competency and gravitas in those areas.(I talk about how it might survive its own self destructive comfort zone commitment to careers elsewhere) . 

If the ABC is to have a future it must focus on mature communication and ditch the commentariat of incompetent inexperienced careless cynical and feebleminded noisemakers  

The ABC, even when visiting back roads with Heather has little sense they are kindergarten entrants in the tough game of making a living out there. Muster dogs  ( where at last we have some humility to the fore)  and landline are good programs but they often are only made to please the patronisers in the city.

Opportunities to do good comedy are being missed 

While it is not always "the city selling us solutions as if  we are stupid"  our ABC has missed the chance to do in COMEDY terms what "Clarksons farm" has done for the world.
It's the city SmartA's who should be laughed at.  Absolutely. 

Time to go to confession. Jeremy has gone to confession and done the worlds farmers in one episode what the ABC and other media have never done in decades. 

Imagine how much more the ABC could sell to the world if it wasn't so religious and arrogant about its ability to solve the worlds environment problems . Imagine the excitement amongst young people to do physics and chemistry  if real world scientists  were explaining how we already feed the world in many relatively sustainable ways  on this dry continent !
Imagine the ABC doing something even better and more robust than " A Country Practice " 

SEPTEMBER 2025   13th
There were to be fair some good young reporters taking to the protests in Melbourne  today but the producers clearly have this bad habit of selecting  what suits them. A celebration for the assassinated Kirk by thousands trumps the hundreds repeating the same old on our streets.
That poor reporting and training of young staff should get producers sacked !

Clearly there are people in the management of the ABC who think we are stupid . We know that many in there who are old, tired and predictable and should be told their appointment ends.  And yes they are being punished in some cases for incompetent reporting and very poor leadership in their field.   


The main point is

1. There is no discipline in that place that works.
2. No respect much for interviewing people who have lots of life experience or reporting well. 

Writers don't get trained to cut out careless defamatory adjectives and commentary because older staff add their favorite adjectives and lines like the incompetent Alan Kohler,  who will obviously read anything that's put before him. 

No media group ever get it right.

 But the worst are those who never go to confession on their prejudices and the way their cynicism  and powerlessness ( yes its true ) is clouding their awareness of their own incompetence.
As a competent earth scientist i have had to switch off the preaching from the pulpit on the environment.
I mean you would think these inexperienced pew sitters would use their reporting budget to reach out to all voices on controversial subjects. You would think after listening to the Greens for decades they would want adults with some understanding to be standing in the pulpit .
Instead they let the childrenthe children read the simple lessons that make them seem like fire lighters and bringers of the light , when all they do is bring a new tune of contempt for those outside the building .


With so many old Labor and media people like Chris Uhlmann  joining the chorus of those clapping the OUTSIDE  street party of blistering speeches by  Jacinta, Nova Peris and many others Hollie Hughes , how many before Parliaments STOP THE ROT in the ABC news commentariat. 
Bad luck Richard Marles - you will never be PM because your collegues are not only incompetent but because they are like ALBO - silent and silenced  They sit quietly in the pews no longer exercise the voices we gave them.
As the Senate estimates  demonstrated today. Silenced but out their cancelling those who actually speak the truth or ask the hard questions .
Nothing is more abhorrent than leaders like

@Albo

who can't say NO - simply+ directly. That weak man can talk glibly on "Never again ", but like the ABC's

@latingle

they're mute + mere puppets of minorities + extremists

@AuSenate

ABC Making up their own news

 Instead of making up stories to attack things ABC staffers don't like,( like their fake news story on 4WD's ; damage to dunes this last week of March 2024 ), we should insist that our broadcaster /investigator find out why a vast bunch of government departments have stuffed up the dunes, the beaches, the swale and the near shore wave zone at Apollo Bay.

just for example carparks , access along the top ( creates erosion) tree tunnels ( create erosion ) but no grass on the dune ,

Excessive drainage through the dune and swale no longer providing stormwater storage , parking and access for the public .

And increasing fill and development of the swale in recent years

The subtle force of the wind on 60 metres of bare but flat sand has been largely ignored by recent managers.     

The large amount of sand dumped in recent days on the beach at Marengo will quickly move DOWN into the tidal zone creating bars and rips .

What makes the sand move UP to build the dune? The sand only moves UP and settles when there when there is a CLEAR long surface and grass vegetation to trap it on the higher end of this necessary but subtle set of flattish curves.The old large trees in North Apollo bay allow wind tunnels under them,  making the erosion worse when there is no low vegetation under them. 

The Minister for local government should be asked what COT have done with the 13% POS tax they impose on developers and where they have acquired the Public open Space on the coast that they are required to do under the provisions of the Subdivision Act.

Why fake news ? No particular sites of offence by 4WD were named and the particular ecologists drawn in the lottery of lucky winners this time around wandered around the subject like the journos involved . The Science and integrity unit of the ABC ( should they exist ) should provide the discipline required to reduce the subtle agenda and catastrophic creating that has eroded sound practical peoples trust in the inexperienced ABC.

ABC can do great things -

 When it reports what is happening and not interprets the facts for us.
After decades of deep disappointment with the above problem, and the failure of the club to recognize its dogged determinism (eg own lack of real life experience, its immaturity, rejection of conservatism,  its commitment to some idealistic goal of progress and its quite clear growth of cynicism within the ranks.

Just some examples 
1,. Reporting some of the reasons why border closures are not always Israel problem  ie protests.
Still no questions from you on why the Palestinians allow so many women and children in the war zone -- do you think we are dumb?  Do you think your quiet cancelling of sources will meet with passive acceptance?
We are not stupid and simply don't watch or listen to ABCTV news or 774 or whatever.   There are some good reporters on RN but I won't mention them here . 


YET POSITIVELY   I  have noticed what I consider longer and more extended reports on protests and demonstrations say even on this Easter weekend.
For too long we haven't been able to trust ABC news because the producers have not encouraged unsavory pieces of news.
I am a competent environmental planner and simply cannot stomach the simplicities on all your channels on risk management in environment -

SIMPLY  none of you know enough to know who to talk to and the dumbing down we as competent professionals, always knew was real in academia, grows like muck . http://misplacedconcreteness.blogspot.com   Robin Williams must go.   

 

BACK ROADYANS would sack the incumbents ---in the news service

In the interests of the earth and our children's opportunity to study it and manage it .


This weeks example. 
The ABC 's recent focus on floods in the Goulburn is the latest in the decades of years when the lefts agenda , fear and ignorance dominates the news and the interpretation of events outside the building .Fires floods  are catastrophic - they have to be to make the preachers sermon real .   

The river is actually flooding because for the first time in eons , the dams are full and the stream flows  are more natural . Nothing to do with CC . And the hypocrisy is that its these sorts of big floods that do what the 20 billion spent of the Murray Darling Plan can never do -- regenerate the wetlands . And  dear Auntie plays wet nurse to those who need to move so they don't keep getting wet feet . Its not a joke its madness .Children entertaining the children - insisting that no mature truths and big picture be put - asking that no funeral dirges be played. 

The ABC think it's their job to WARN people of the dangers of climate change and unlike true
 MUSTER DOGS --they have no maturity about how to herd the sheep . 
And worse,  they have no idea where they are taking the sheep . 
MUSTER DOGS  a great program because we get to meet real people without agendas  and not one word of CC is mentioned amongst these productive earth working "hayseeds"( who mostly watch SKY ) .


The only way our children can avoid their desperate cynicism and fanaticisms in their news services is if they went back to reporting practical scientists who do know the ground truth ; Those who can tell the aweful truth about who is denying the truth ,which party is  withholding it when ,  or as mostly happens - those who fly with the wind, fear and arrogant ignorance  and hypocritical accusations against hay seeds and the thieves , murderers and rapists who inhabit big institutions . True science trumps the ace of prejudice from the reactionaries. 

RETIRE all the old ones at least .    Noone is learning anything new with them telling their same old stories ,  Adams the farmer who isn't  one. Robin Williams the science show leader who isn't a scientist and people like Doogue who runs a program on belief when she has never believed anything .
This is a club full of arrogant, inexperienced  cynical reactionaries who don't KNOW very much and could not inspire our children to do anything but be like them .Why should any broadcaster have more than ten years tenure?      

The challenged we face must be dealt with in humility if our children are not to be burdened with the arrogance of some of our institutions. 

The ABC club has been convinced for decades it knows something, but is not really sure what it is . 
It sells something like Climate change so easily because the answers are always changing  
The ABC have,  like so many powerful institutions  got into a fanatical mood because its right to exercise power in choosing what we see has been being lost in a big way for decades.
Everyone has an agenda. The authorship inside the ABC must not be hindered by the producers  choices.