Letter to the ABC.
Dear Chairman Donald MacDonald.
It is my observation that there are too many Howard dogsbodies employed at
the ABC.
Please do something about it.
Laurie.
Laurie and Desley Forde [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Canning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, February 19, 1999 12:46 PM
Subject: Re: [recoznet2] Howard's ABC---New LIfe for Ein Reich.
>I think you're looking too narrowly at this Laurie.
>You're assuming that any appearance by Hanson is going to increase their
vote.
>all that stuff about not being racist and getting upset when being compared
to
>hitler was laughable. they also came across as quite well off if not
wealthy.
>don't assume that 'middle australia' looks or lives like here therefor will
>identify with her.
>I think she came across badly. what annoyed me about the ABC's presentation
was
>that - in looking at her family life - they failed to mention her estranged
>(gay) son. That in the terms of the show they were doing was a
dishonourable
>exclusion, didn't even get mentioned. but I think that was complicated by
them
>thinking that 'that subject' is 'too sensitive' to mention, leaving the
viewers
>in the dark over her quite complicated and confused attitude to gay people
in
>general and her son in particular.
>but weren't those kids frightening to you? the son especially, who looked
at bit
>stupid. I really think the more these people are exposed for who they are
the
>more people will be turned off and away. hearing the kids spit about the
>'disloyal' son would have been priceless.
>it's the same with the nutcases who go crazy over mardi gras - they've only
>boosted it by throwing the 'alternative' up into sharp relief.
>is it not possible for us to read stuff like last night's show as anything
other
>than howard dictating australia (via abc 'dogsbodies')?
>
>paul
>
>Trudy and Rod Bray wrote:
>>
>> Laurie,
>>
>> I hope you have passed on your observations to the ABC?
>>
>> Trudy
>>
>> Laurie Forde wrote:
>>
>> > I don't know how many of you saw Australian Story on the ABC last
night,
>> > but it amounted to a P-----e H----n benefit night. Talking about the
ABC
>> > being taken over by the Right---my daughter did a week's work
experience on
>> > Australian Story. She was asked to submit the names of people who would
>> > possibly make good subjects for the programme. She named an Aboriginal
>> > person in the news at that time and was told that Aborigines didn't
rate.
>> > She named a political figure to the left of centre and was told that
they
>> > did not do politicians. In the week she was there they did a story on a
>> > Farming family who were complaining about Native Title amongst a litany
of
>> > other complaints. They were also preparing a story on Tim Costello at
the
>> > time---not a politician ,but close to the bone. Surely they are not
going to
>> > claim that P.H. is not a politician. What they did last night breathed
life
>> > back into Ein Reich, and on the eve of the N.S.W. election where David
>> > Oldfield is trying to gain election to the Upper House. Yes, Howard
needs
>> > O.N. to keep the political agenda in Australia firmly ti the Right, and
his
>> > ever increasing number of dogsbodies at the ABC are only too willing to
do
>> > his bidding. Laurie Laurie and Desley Forde lpcf@fan net au
>>
>>
>
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