how to be relevant in a world where meaning, substance and gravitas is being sucked out of everything. One recalls Michael Leunig's brilliant observations in The people's Treasure. Mark, if something is quality it will endure. A race to the bottom is not the answer, IMO. NNN27: 14 Jun 2012 8:45:03am Now that we can access news organisations from around the world we can now see the extent that news/current affairs is filtered and editorised by the ABC. Some examples: the mainstream media in the US completely ignored the GOP hopeful Ron Paul even when he was pooling over 20%. Why did the ABC do this as well? The ABC gave coverage to other mainstrem GOP nominees who pooled a lot less. Is this because ABC journalists get spoon feed stories and it saves having to write your own stories? And by the way are we starting to see a series of soft stories on Obama and how nice Michell Obama is?? Julian Assange gets alot of coverage in Europe and you would have to say a household name. We get snippets of news about his extradition but nothing else,, we also get the odd snide remarks from the insiders program. If I had the NBN I could watch Julian's interviews on RT.com As another commentor noted: we want information, we don't want journalists to think for us. I believe in the concept of the ABC - that is, unbiased, fair reporting where both sides of issues get aired. Unfortunately