"think tanks" would be able to take on the job. Funny they never have done, or at least if they did they found the data to prove the hypothesis wasn't there. That "leftist" claim comes invariably from right wingers with an agenda, who only want to hear their own views played back to them and any dissenting views stifled. If Rinehart gets Fairfax even the weather forecasts will be written by old neocons in case some revolutionary subliminal message gets out. Merve: 14 Jun 2012 12:39:00pm This so called 'left' bias is just an absence of a right wing bias. When you look at where ex journalists from the ABC go when they get a job in politics, there are just as many joining the Liberal Party as the Labor Party. bring back kev: 14 Jun 2012 3:01:37pm Merve - that would be a very misleading statement as to where the ex journalists go - the one you can name who joined the Libs is known because she went against the trend. Vast majority of ex ALP journos in politics end up as an ALP or Green If we went the other way & looked at current ALP journos who used to work for the political parties Do you want to go that way too? Hello Kerry & Barry - which ALP leader did you each work for (so the former main political journalist on the ABC in Kerry O worked for Bill Hayden, Barry Cass worked for Beazley) Best