Here is why #theirabc is fake news - @abcnews is pretending it’s funding was cut and they assume you’re too lazy to look at the budget for yourself #auspol

CPI was 2.2% last year, was 1.8% year before and RBA projects inflation will be under 0.5% for the foreseeable future

Taxpayer funding
FY19/20 - 1,045,911
FY20/21 - 1,073,395 (+2.6%)
FY21/22 - 1,087,970 (+1.4%)
FY22/23 - 1,095,778 (+0.8%)

Annual average +1.6%

Abc fact-check:

There are some amazing people at ABC - but they’re drowned out by the propagandists hiding in the sheltered workshop. It’s time to acknowledge the organisation kills media diversity - it has literally twice the journalists in the Canberra Press Gallery as everyone else combined

As soon as a small plucky website starts serving a community and gaining traction, #theirabc aggressively goes after that audience - seeking clicks - usually putting said plucky Indy voice out of business, then management kills the project and that community is left with nothing.

Don’t believe me? Consider what @oz_f wrote in @GuardianAus - where he outlines the KPI model for going after these audiences (he also confesses that #theirabc intentionally targets marginal seats with a “progressive political agenda”) https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/25/closing-abc-life-is-more-about-politics-and-appeasement-than-good-outcomes

I want ABC to emulate SBS’ fairness - I want more deep investigation like @stephenstockwel - pieces that challenge my world view - I want to have no earthly idea how journalists vote - like @PatsKarvelas. I want #theirabc to go back to its charter. #auspol

But no - somehow Barrie Cassidy, former press secretary for an ALP prime minister is still there, and so is Kerry O’Brien - another former ALP press secretary and Virginia Trioli- who has listed after ALP senate preselection for a decade are what you hold up as “fair elders”

Let these fossils go and give the kids their shot - they’re talented, hungry, ready and fair minded - and want to inform and investigate - not campaign and editorialise.

No one wakes up and turns on the TV looking for Michael Rowland, who I am sure is a reasonable and affable chap, they turn on the television looking to be informed through inoffensive wallpaper. I assure you he is not drawcard.

I await flaming from the Alp “friends of the abc” AstroTurf accounts

I’m honestly surprised Greens aren’t more up in arms about this - they get screwed by #TheirABC’s ALP fixations even more than Liberals.

Let me debunk some of the replies to this thread. “Transmission & hosting costs for #theirabc are going up”
Yes - and so is funding for program 1.2 “ABC TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION SERVICES” which funds transmission, websites & iview hosting