Comments on: ABC enters book deal with Rupert Murdoch. ABC half dies

By: Richard McGuire

Richard McGuire — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Why not go all the way and appoint Rupert to the board. That way there would be less chance of anything undesirable, from Rupert’s point of view, being aired, let alone turning up in book form….. The tiff Rupert had with Chris Patten, over some unkind things Patten said about the Chinese in his memoirs, as the last Governor of Hong Kong, was over ten years ago, ‘ancient history.’ ………And what a formidable combination a Murdoch, Windschuttle, Albrechtsen. team would be.

By: brian pullen

brian pullen — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

I listened to one of Rupert’s Boyer lectures and thought neither I nor Rupert have learned much in 40 or 60+ years. Me for a being such a mug as to think it would be worth hearing anything Rupert had to say - the man is incorrigible he tells lies with the ease of a six year old child and appears to believe what he is saying and has ever been such a man. Then to think any reputable organisation would have him around to advise on policy is laughable. He wants to own the world and there are enough sycophants around to pander to his whims. God help us all and the ABC when he starts to get into the organisation - and I thought things were going to get better when we had a Labour government. No I need another 40 years of learning!

By: Col

Col — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

I too thought a federal Labor government would be so much more astute on keeping the ABC from the clutches of Murdoch. But then Rudd’s team of Queensland Labor graduates isn’t the slick insightful lot we’re used to in the capitals - meaning they probably think the natonal broadcaster is another commercial outlet.