EVER, arry: 14 Jun 2012 9:25:05am And how does one deal with a hopelessly biased low quality public broadcaster? Can we stop paying taxes and feeding this cesspit of government funded lightweights who still thing they are writing for university newspapers? ugh carnaby-sirius: 14 Jun 2012 10:31:06am "And how does one deal with a hopelessly biased low quality public broadcaster?" Remove all the right wing influence from it's board and all the right wing reporters from its ranks (starting with Uhlmann). Then it will have a hope of returning to its previous position as a quality unbiased broadcaster. jerrybrookman: AT: The Australian is already an unprofitable enterprise. If it was answerable only to the marketplace, as many advocate the ABC should be, The Australian would long ago have been dead and buried. Not that it's gonna trouble anyone doing Rupert's bidding, but The Australian is not speaking on behalf of a massive readership, their advocacy does not have the imprimatur of the "masses". And yet they still wield a level of influence disproportionate to their lowly standing. You have to wonder why Mark Scott and The Drum expended so much energy fending off the bleatings of such a trifling and petty outfit? Well, the answer's pretty obvious, really, the ABC is fending off that old bull, the rampaging Rupert, not some considered, reputable and principled lobby. Mark James is right, without Rupert, The Australian might actually be a quality rag. aelious: Alpo: 14 Jun 2012 9:58:28am That's true, aelious, but