be writing comments in The Drum damning Labor, but when its a Liberal government the silence is deafening. But then you can always blame the previous Labor government for the deficits - that's how the political game is always played: blame the previous government. Accept there are incompetent dingbats on all side of politics and all deserve our justified condemnation. Shebs: 14 Jun 2012 9:19:22am The issue for many is that the ABC is still biased, if not in the alleged pursuit of profit and power, and we all pay for it yet it represents, as Keating intended when he funded the ABC's expansion, the views of only one side of the political spectrum, by and large, and this covers social issues too. To say, as many on here do, that the privately run media needs an opposing viewpoint is still not reason to fund the ABC from everyone's pocket. This is especially since private media enterprises come in all persuasions. Murdoch is often hounded by the Left, but employs a far more diverse team than Fairfax, a Lefty mouthpiece. To say that private media has no concience (sic) may be true or not, and who cares? I doubt Fairfax has any better a conscience than News Limited, especially as they are they only organisation (The Age, specifically), to have engaged in misusing information, ironically from the ALP. I don't especially think the ABC differs, conscience-wise, either. ugh carnaby-sirius: 14 Jun 2012 10:02:25am "The issue for many is that the