Trying to be nice

 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 it was humble and disciplined like a sound profession of reporting can be.

Paradoxically most of learnt from Jesus to never trust to the 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 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.