the arrogance and laziness of journalists have made the ABC disfunctional. peter of mitcham: R.Ambrose Raven: 14 Jun 2012 8:51:15am What of the ABC (and SBS) in this New-Capitalist-Consumerist world in which entertainment is ever more present but information is ever less so? "Some, like News 24 and the streaming services, are a very major financial investment for us" - it would be better were they quality as well. On the few occasions I've looked at it, ABC24 is shallow and mediocre - no intelligent collection or scrutiny, just infotainment diahorrea. Yet Radio National - exactly the reverse - is ever more cut. Far from the limited model forced on the BBC, and now also accepted by the ABC CEO and its Board, to have an excellent, independent, full-service public service broadcaster would seem especially important. So we should condemn the appalling performance of such as ABC CEO Mark Scott, then ABC Chair Maurice Newman, and the Board, far from being the excellent, independent, full-service public service broadcaster that it should be, what was Our ABC has degenerated into Their ABC - little more than a shell used as a cash cow for the profit-seeking media production sector, Macquarie Bank's apparently lucrative transmission monopoly, and a promoter of Hard Right views. By starting his executiveship with a speech to the Hard Right Sydney Institute, he made it clear that it was the master he was to serve. Even the ABCs perennial underfunding is not the straightforward issue that it was