Article in the Age show that audiences for 774 in melbourne have dropped by half in the last year .
There are no doubt many causes but one stands out to me as a chicken that has come home to roost .
The presumption they have that this Club produces the most thorough news , and this is, and always was wrong .The truth is hard to find and like our governments they can spend lots of our money making it look like they are out there finding it and funding it
PRIDE has come before the FALL. and only truth will se the people free.
It doesn't matter, as Waugh said in Scoop ( and other writers of true stories know ) how many reporters and resources you dedicate to finding the truth, the full story can be where he reporters don't go .
A lot will change when the 3 ABC channels source material from sites where the ABC angels were never allowed to tread .
Some ABC Melbourne reporters ( eg Feine and Epstein) have been afraid to go west for decades and those of us who are truly local know when the presumption of awareness ( about being truly Local )
You see you can have as many regional ABC offices as you like too, but if club zero and mother priests is full of pride the disease will control it .
The full dimension of how our pride about what we know undermines what we really do know is a matter too big to be dealt with here . Maybe Scott and Waheed will give it a better go , one day ?
We can all get very theoretical about this and most moderns don't now want to leave the deterministic lockup they set up as home so the real spiritual nature of the problem is not going to be discussed here.
When you lose power , as the ABC is over its audience , you get fanatical and are in no mood to accept the change that must eventually come. For the metanoia that threatens deeply the logic and method of work. .
There is little point when the mood is fanatical in playing the old games of pedantry and expecting the leadership to confess to its obvious sin; rationalizing the threats and self righteousness .
After all , the Devil has mastered this in all churches of all kinds; this fantasy
We appear to come here to confess and recognize our abject rebellion and self righteousness and the glory of our Creator's work around us, but really most of us walk out the door without actually doing any of that .We may even think of ourselves as change agents but have never changed ourselves.
So let me give you just one very practical example of overreach by ABC melbourne .
ABC 774 try to do too much. Like emergency broadcasting . They started this after we ( #OCRFM in 1991) started doing it. We wereones with the fires but they, like all commercials were copying us . ; but because they couldn't do it as well their lie ( "its efficient" ) and their power games were not exposed . It suits the powerful ad the city to assume they know things . .
ABC 774 started calling themselves LOCAL when we started EB , when we had all the situation people( 20 or so )and we still are truly local and competing against a local commercial station in a listening area of 40000 people - the ABC are not THERE on ground - infact they are now afraid ( Mr Feine and Mr Epstein ) to go farther west than Torquay.
This is part of the ongoing insult and onslaught of the city against the country Representing South West Victoria Facebook page
Sorry if you don't accept it, but since May 2022 , the city have decided to allow Bandt to run the country :( country peopl lost their vote years ago)
So why aren't thinking people troubled enough about the total unfairness and threat to sound planning of our children's competence , faith in democracy and scientific planning ability.? All too hard until you find the essentail clue for our children asi have restated in RSW , accept regional representation that is fair , not Gough Whitlams simple maths , which is not fair .
Our community radio station, in the highest bushfire zone of all in Vic , used to switch off all other programs and run dedicated loops of up to date local fire news broadcasts through the entire time of the NE SW crisis bush fire period. We locals actually know how to predict and deal with real threats ( like flood fire,drought landslides )not just speculate wildly about them.
We never received a cent to do that work , and still don't . The Lorne fire fronts in 1983 lasted less than a day and biggest impacts are over hours, not days .
You can see some of the maps on http://swearthnews.blogspot.com
other food for thought
The thing thinking people need to recognise is that when we start losing our supposed influence , we risk becoming fanatical - pretending we do know things we don't - and that's a real turnoff ) This is what is happening to all trad media because the internet and our own connections grow the competence these mediums lack .
A crisis tends to show up the agencies weakness of judgment but noone else gets to employ so many adults who have never grown up and got some experience let alone confess to cutting people off . Jon Feine and Tony Jones are examples of the immature…
No one else in our society gets to gaslight people so easily .
He's the hypocrisy about church time in ABC church. A subtle form of gaslighting
Like all churches ABC church has ways of excommunicating attempted communicants .
The priest presenting says to the person on line........ and in the frame ?
Are you angry?
" You, the bad listener are angry ( therefore are sinning according to that church ) SO , we will switch you off . we will do it nicely of course. we are very nice here at the ABC .Gaslighting incorporated
ABC runs like a church even though it would fight to the death to say its not religious . Its largely trying to bring in the kingdom of the secular determinist which like all good priests do,it preaches this simple doctrine .
God is dead and therefore you are your own judge , Don't worry what others think . Do what you feel like and get what you feel like and because you have all these drivers to survive , push to get what nature deserves you to have , More food sex, travel and guess what - you don't have to go to church every week , let alone confess anything . What is there to confess???
( only those we target from monday to friday have to confess anything - polys and big business etc )
