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Climate Catch-22

Watching last night’s Four Corners, it occurred to me:

When there was no plan for agreement in Copenhagen, the government was insane to go it alone.
Now that there is a chance of agreement, it’s One World Government.

Just saying.
Feel free to discuss the program, the emissions trading debate, or climate change in this thread.

Ease up on the cross-promotion, Aunty

Tonight’s episode of Four Corners is about James Packer. You probably know that already, if you have watched or listened to an ABC station during the past week.
I already knew, because I had seen ads between programs while watching ABC1. But I was reminded again this morning – not through an ad, but because of [...]

Is The Punch helping build ABC Online?

One of the coups pulled off by News Limited’s fledgling group blog The Punch is inarguably the inclusion of regular posts from ABC presenters Leigh Sales and Mark Colvin. Not only have these high profile ABC identities provided some fantastic content to The Punch, Leigh Sales Well read-head is a personal favourite, they have also [...]

Annabel’s Been Captivated

The news that Sydney Morning Herald reporter and columnist Annabel Crabb will not be renewing her contract and will instead move to work at the ABC opens up another interesting area of conversation in the subscription based online media discussion, the role of public broadcasters.
There’s a long tradition in the Australian broadcast media of journalists [...]

Rape in the headlines redux

Following last week’s two cases, the ABC publishes this headline:
Sleeping girl ’sexually assaulted’ on train
As the story explains, two men have been charged with aggravated sexual assault over the alleged incident, a crime that carries a maximum sentence of 20 years (unless they were actually charged with aggravated sexual assault in company, which carries a [...]