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Influence and the ABC board: A short history
Public broadcasting appointments became a sort of extended in-joke by John Howard’s office, writes Bernard Keane.
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Albrechtsen breaks her ABC rule
Conservative columnist and ABC Board member, Janet Albrechtsen, has breached her promise not to criticise the ABC in public after yesterday taking a swipe at Melbourne’s 774 presenter, Jon Faine, writes Andrew Dodd.
How will the new government handle ABC funding?
ABC Managing Director Mark Scott returns to his desk next Monday to face, among other things, the most crucial challenge in the ABC’s calendar – the preparation of the triennial funding submission, writes Margaret Simons.
Who should join the ABC board in 2008?
Two ABC Board positions become vacant early in the new year. This represents a quarter of the Board, and could shift the centre of gravity of the organisation. So how will the new Government prove itself in the making of these vital appointments? asks Margaret Simons.
Essay: The taking of the ABC
John Howard’s legacy will include an Australian Broadcasting Corporation Board packed with rightwing radicals, linked to industry funded think tanks hostile to public enterprise, writes Friends of the ABC spokesman, Professor Alan Knight.
Lazy ABC dropping the ball with early holidays
Tonight Australian Story, Four Corners and Media Watch finish up for the year. Tomorrow night it’s Foreign Correspondent. That’s disgraceful, writes Glenn Dyer.
Rupert and Howard – parallels aplenty
As the News Ltd press, albeit with some notable individual exceptions, collectively finishes off the Prime Minister by withdrawing their support, the parallels between John Howard and Rupert Murdoch get even more interesting.
No to ABC ads: 8c a day is enough
I welcome ABC managing director Mark Scott’s public declaration that the ABC will not be taking advertisements on ABC websites, says Quentin Dempster.
Berg on the ABC, Simons on Berg
What role is there for public broadcasting in the new media age of plenty, asks Institute of Public Affairs fellow Chris Berg in The Australian today. It’s a fair question – indeed the most important question facing the ABC, writes Margaret Simons.
