When I was watching it, it seemed significantly left by American standards, but I have not watched much American TV for many years. I could be wrong.
Isn't there some attempt to make ABC more neutral toward politics?
Yes, it is - taxpayer funded.
When I was watching it, it seemed significantly left by American standards, but I have not watched much American TV for many years. I could be wrong.
Isn't there some attempt to make ABC more neutral toward politics?
Under its charter, the ABC is obliged to be politically balanced - specifically contrasted with private media organisations which are allowed to be partisan.
But the ABC is not balanced, and hasn't been for a long time. It is a left wing leaning organisation, most specifically leaning towards the politics of Australia's Green Party.
The problem is, the ABC denies it is unbalanced, and keeps commissioning studies to show it is balanced, by selecting people who share its biases to conduct the studies. And the left wing media in general supports it in this.
The government is not supposed to interfere with the independence of the ABC, which makes it difficult for a government to rein it in and get it back under control.
Yes, some of us want the balance of the ABC restored - but whether that will ever happen... no idea.
It's a shame, because the ABC really does serve an important role in Australia, especially in isolated areas. And its pure news coverage is among the best around - it's just when it moves away from simply reporting the news, towards opinion pieces, its biases immediately become obvious.