your prejudices. LOL at the talk about 'Groupthink'. Good luck building an intelligent society on that basis. Judging by most of the comments here that's already a lost cause in our wonderful right-wing bogan mining colony down under though. Why not just give up, let Abbott transfer all the middle and lower class wealth to the richest few in the name of 'rewarding excellence', open all national parks to stripmining for Gina's pleasure and we can all work for Chinese level wages without any social safety net. Returns service over the net: Did the ABC have on-air a cousin of the US President who called the 2000 US election for his own cousin, thus swaying political debate at a crucial moment? Did the ABC have 175 separate publications that all called for war in 2003, encouraging the West to turn Iraq into a bloodbath? Does the ABC have external business interests, such that it can run its major publication (ie like The Australian) at a loss, so as to put political pressure on the government to help its business interests elsewhere? Does the ABC have a head that a British parliamentary committee described as "not fit" to run a major corporation? And as for a "level playing field", come on up to Queensland, where Mr Murdoch's orcs shut down two newspapers (The Telegraph and The Sun), so his remaining paper The Courier Mail could make more $. The "Curious Snail" is also the paper that refused to carry ads for