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Post by pim on Mar 4, 2013 23:41:43 GMT 10
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Post by caskur on Mar 5, 2013 0:29:30 GMT 10
Ugh... I always make serious typos, leave out words, misspell... ugh!!!
That is because I can't type and multitask at all.
I think I have ADD.
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Post by caskur on Mar 5, 2013 0:32:38 GMT 10
"which'd"
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Post by caskur on Mar 5, 2013 0:34:35 GMT 10
"bunning"
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Post by caskur on Mar 5, 2013 0:57:19 GMT 10
I should write about how valuable it is to write about milk in my diary.
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Post by matt on Mar 5, 2013 9:05:58 GMT 10
I am a massive fan of the ABC, and think funding should be increased through a TV licence.
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Post by caskur on Mar 5, 2013 14:26:02 GMT 10
I am a massive fan of the ABC, and think funding should be increased through a TV licence. I agree 100% |
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Post by caskur on Mar 5, 2013 14:32:52 GMT 10
the ABC is our greatest news source that is threatened through lack of funds....
they should be funded by the public topping it up... then journalists could keep their jobs instead of losing them.
One of my nieces switched from being a ABC journalist last year to being a school teacher.
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Post by pim on Mar 5, 2013 14:33:28 GMT 10
I am a massive fan of the ABC, and think funding should be increased through a TV licence. So I guess you're a big government conservative, Matt. |
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Post by caskur on Mar 5, 2013 14:38:30 GMT 10
A license would cover iview.... why not?
And who said anything about policing it? If a household has a working TV set, it should have a license.... it worked in the old days when I was growing up...
The main commercial stations are pretty much unwatchable today due to them cramming us RELENTLESSLY with commercials. They even do 30 minute commercial overkill during the night on every channel.
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Post by caskur on Mar 5, 2013 14:51:44 GMT 10
Milk carts drawn by horses worked in the old days too. (Yes, I am old enough to remember those!) My Grandfather owned a bakery and had horses to carry the bread... my mother and her sister were two of the bread carters.... and I am old enough to remember it too... since my mother nor my aunty are dead yet! |
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Post by garfield on Mar 5, 2013 18:36:44 GMT 10
I like the ABC and SBS, a lot of conservatives go on about the ABC being biased towards the left, I don't think they are too bad, maybe a little bit biased but not a lot, their news does seem to be going down the tabloid path a bit which is disappointing, they should aim to be different, not copy the commercial crapola.
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Post by caskur on Mar 5, 2013 19:24:21 GMT 10
Media Watch is a great show...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2013 21:01:31 GMT 10
ABC and left is an oxymoron
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2013 21:04:24 GMT 10
Actually, the most common phrase heard on ABC 24 is "The opposition says...", it spends more time obsessing about Tony Abbott, and sources most of its material from The Australian.
The way that it toes the Murdoch line renders it irrelevant.
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Post by matt on Mar 7, 2013 12:52:48 GMT 10
With the NBN we could stop transmitting over the air and enforce the TV licence through the signal going through the NBN network. No licence = no signal or internet.
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Post by volk on Mar 7, 2013 12:57:50 GMT 10
With the NBN we could stop transmitting over the air and enforce the TV licence through the signal going through the NBN network. No licence = no signal or internet. I think you should suggest it to your local members, both State and Federal. Maybe let us know what the response is? |
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Post by pim on Mar 7, 2013 13:32:08 GMT 10
Not sure I agree with Matt's bureaucratic solution. If the only justification they can come up with for the existence of the NBN is that it would make revenue raising easier, then that would be a giant free kick to Tony Abbott. In any case I thought that the gravamen of the Liberal critique of the NBN is that rather than raise revenue, it is a giant drain on revenue - as well as constituting a de facto re-nationalisation of the electronic media. Maybe Matt is more into Big Government than he realises!
But in amongst all of Matt's tendentious stuff there is a valid point which is that the ABC has to be placed on some sort of sustainable financial footing rather than being subject to the whims and the politics of the annual Budget process. Pre-Whitlam there had been a licence but, as Earl Grey implied, that was in the Dark Ages before the welter of IT options we have available today. The fact that SBS has advertising provides a model for the ABC. I'm not against the idea of the ABC carrying ads. It already does carry ads! Even if it only carries ads for the ABC! It'll happen one day - maybe it's what an Abbott Government will do. I won't be too upset by it if it does. As long as the ads are at the end of programs and don't interrupt programs. The PBS in the United States has corporate sponsorship and invites people to contribute directly. There are models ...
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Post by sonex on Mar 7, 2013 15:58:47 GMT 10
Nooo no commercial adverts for the ABC please, it is the station I watch nearly all of the time. In any case we taxpayers are already paying for it, $1 billion in the last financial year.
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Post by caskur on Mar 7, 2013 16:06:34 GMT 10
Newspapers closed down all over the USA... last I heard it was 180... I have no idea of the figure today. That is a lot of unemployed journalists...no wonder people have become hooked on celeb news since that is all we get on commercial stations. I mean really... it's far easy to chase a poor celeb around the streets snapping them without make-up on than it is to go to closest frontline battle, innit? OK, the net saved the trees... less paper is used supposedly producing tabloids... however, annoying ads have joined the net and they take up download time... AND give YOU viruses. I for one cannot stand ads of any kind.... right now, the ABC still offers ad free news...yippee... but rather than using ads to top up their ABC broadcasting as I have heard them say they might do, I favour a license idea.... it was very expensive in the old days when my mother paid for one but I cannot see how a nominal fee of $30 a year...or $50 a year could hurt Aussies. BRING BACK TV LICENSES.. PLEASE. TYIA. Nooo no commercial adverts for the ABC please, it is the station I watch nearly all of the time. In any case we taxpayers are already paying for it, $1 billion in the last financial year. We pay for it but if we want journalists in field, which we do, they have to be paid well. Many are underpaid. Some are changing jobs. |
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