Mmmm,

It’s undeniable that the NBN went right off the ABC’s topic list after early 
2013.

My guess is that its inadvisable to lump your national broadcaster under the 
Communications Department banner and expect some objectivity of Communications 
Department issues.

The terrific thing is that when the NBN MTM vs fibre fiasco really hits the fan 
in a few years time, we’ll have so many to blame (‘Mr Broadband’, Abbott and 
his technological troglodytes, the MTM generally - who are unremittingly 
hostile to the new medium that has so messed up their business model, market 
economists and beancounters who were listened to rather than network engineers, 
scientists and other networking specialists etc. etc) that the ABC may be 
forgotten.

But we should remember how it abrogated its responsibility, and edited facts in 
favour of politics .. so I do hope it won’t come down with an ‘I am holier than 
thou’ line when it all hits the fan. By its conscious editorial omissions  the 
ABC made itself an integral part of the NBN problem and the looming fiasco, and 
it will deserve all the condemnation and blame that the others will get.

Just my 2 cents worth 
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> On 14 Jan 2016, at 6:50 PM, Andy Farkas <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> So, yeah, seems the ABC has not been reporting about the NBN/MTM debacle 
> on purpose.
> 
>  < 
> https://delimiter.com.au/2016/01/14/journo-claims-abc-gagged-his-nbn-coverage/>
> 
> Hopefully Nick can now comment freely.
> 
> -andyf
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