On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Michael Scott <luv@inoz.net> wrote:
They have radio and television stations and their radio stations are also varied.
They may well be on the left of centre, but at least those left of centre offer an intelligent, if biased, argument.
I have zero interest in any argument about whether ABC/SBS are left or right. Frankly, I don't care. They can be outright Fascist or Communist and I still wouldn't care.
The ABC and SBS produce nothing that is of interest to me. I get my news from Reuters and Quartz and NY Times and Atlantic and the Economist and a few other sources. They all have websites that give me "world news" that I care about. Reuters and Quartz are free and ad-supported and I pay for NY Times and Economist monthly. There is no shortage of quality news sources on the web, free or paid.
I get my TV by paying $8 for netflix, which gets me all the TV shows and movies that I could ever want to watch. And when I want "intelligent documentaries", I go to the Smithsonian, or watch some TED Talks.
Now my taste is my own and not everyone shares my taste, but in this modern world there is this thing called the Internet, which amazingly has something for everyone, whatever their taste! The "public broadcaster" argument used to be valid when the BBC and ABC and the likes initially started, but the nature of broadcast has changed and there is no justification for their subsidised existence anymore.