{"id":8133,"date":"2013-04-18T08:44:47","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T22:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?p=8133"},"modified":"2013-04-18T08:44:47","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T22:44:47","slug":"the-long-history-between-the-abc-and-the-ipa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2013\/04\/the-long-history-between-the-abc-and-the-ipa\/","title":{"rendered":"The Long History Between The ABC And The IPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a lot questions raised lately, in regards to the regular appearances by representatives from the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ipa.org.au\/\">Institute of Public Affairs<\/a> (IPA) in news and current affairs programming on the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Australian_Broadcasting_Corporation\">the ABC<\/a> &#8211; (in particular on &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/thedrum\/\">The Drum<\/a>&#8221;) &#8211; and what their motivations are, given their apparent links to other media organisations.<\/p>\n<p>My curiosity was piqued when I stumbed onto <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpaceKidette\/status\/324377743078879233\">this tweet yesterday<\/a> &#8211; (from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpaceKidette\/\">@SpaceKidette<\/a> who I follow and who follows me) &#8211; pointing to an investigation by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stuart_Littlemore\">Stuart Littlemore<\/a> from 2001, into the IPA and its apparent vitriolic hatred of the ABC.<\/p>\n<p><center>\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"450\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n  <tr>\n    <td align=\"center\" width=\"450\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qZ_Kbiwl2ok\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/td>\n  <\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/center>\n<\/p>\n<p>Does the IPA still hate the ABC?  Why are they always on?  Working on an inside job?  Or have things changed?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all very curious since their own list of policies the IPA wishes an incoming Liberal\/National Party government to implement, spells out the breakup and sell-off of the ABC &#8211; (take note of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ipa.org.au\/publications\/2080\/be-like-gough-75-radical-ideas-to-transform-australia\">Policy 50<\/a>) &#8211; due to its belief in ensconced left-wing bias at the national broadcaster, and the threat that might pose to democracy &#8211; yet they still happily go onto the various ABC outlets to spout their message.<\/p>\n<p>On the &#8216;biased&#8217; ABC:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Conservative governments have a very narrow idea of what the &#8216;culture wars&#8217; consists of.  The culture of government that threatens our liberty is not just ensconced in the ABC studios, or among a group of well-connected and publicly funded academics.  ABC bias is not the only problem. It is the spiraling expansion of bureaucracies and regulators that is the real problem.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Heady words.<\/p>\n<p>It is all the more curiouser to observe the current wider opinion of the ABC &#8211; which many see as biased towards the political right, and many see as biased towards the political left.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously it can&#8217;t be both, so it is probably neither.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the truth about the IPA&#8217;s goals, given the current political discourse in Australia, Littlemore&#8217;s report is an interesting 15 minutes of viewing.<\/p>\n<p>Grab a cuppa and watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a lot questions raised lately, in regards to the regular appearances by representatives from the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) in news and current affairs programming on the the ABC &#8211; (in particular on &#8220;The Drum&#8221;) &#8211; and what their motivations are, given their apparent links to other media organisations. My curiosity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[21,100,296,359],"class_list":["post-8133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","tag-abc","tag-auspol","tag-ipa","tag-murdoch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}