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Following the appearance of a 30 metre banner of communist icon, Joseph Stalin, accusations of bias have been levelled at the broadcaster – with an efficiency review announced to assess its operations.
Former prime minister, Tony Abbott, said the ABC took “everyone’s side but Australia’s” and should show “some basic affection for the home team” – and stop being so blatant about their fetishisation of the former Soviet dictator.
He also criticised the ABC for collaborating with Guardian Australia in reporting that people light themselves on fire in offshore detention and that the barrier reef is going to be dead in ten years if we don’t stop trying to ship coal through it.
Conservative commentators have gone further, accusing it of being biased towards the left side of politics.
Sky News’ vaguely recognisable TV presenter, Paul Murray, says as a no-nonsense millennial who likes to smoke cigars and drink expensive scotch – he finds the banner appalling, but was quick to change the subject to bail conditions of repeat offenders in Western Sydney.
2GB’s Ray Hadley was also quick to level accusations of left-wing bias towards the public broadcaster, before changing the subject to welfare fraud in Western Sydney and his outrage surrounding how easy it is for repeat offenders to get bail in Western Sydney.
Former international commercial network journalist and current ABC darling Stan Grant says it’s important to not to act out of emotion in discussions around what may or may not have been draped from the roof of Ultimo this afternoon, before referring to our reporters as comrade and asking if we felt like joining him for a trip to Sydney’s Chinatown for some communist-era blackbean beef.
