Look closer: there’s an agenda behind all this anti-ABC outrage.
You’ve probably seen the slew of headlines today attacking our national broadcaster in the grisliest possible terms, by conflating it with the bloodthirsty Islamic State.
Headlines like this:
And this:
And this:
Time and time again, the Coalition government has made its distaste for the ABC known: When Mr Abbott last year said he was concerned the ABC takes an anti-Australian stance in its reporting, for example, and when the government cut funding to the broadcaster by a whopping $254 million over five years.
It’s hardly surprising, either, that News Corp papers — headed by Muddoch, who has an obsequious relationship with Abbott — overwhelmingly comprise the media outlets targeting the ABC over the issue.
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Update for any Zaky apologists: he has been repeating his gang-rape tweets of January 2015. He tweeted more than once in the last few days that he would like to "join in" on a gangbang of Miranda Devine and another journalist. THAT is why he should not have been given a platform on the ABC.
Interesting to know the thoughts of those whose comments below imply that the government is running an illegitimate fear campaign after last night's Tunisian massacre, French beheading and Kuwait killings.