I think the Greens have been measured in the way they've responded to this atrocity.
The sound bites all make sense. It's a slaughter like no other.
How could the ABC be asked to cut $250 million over 5 years?
It will only get around $5.5 billion of taxpayer money over that period anyway.
It's our climate change network, the network of Asylum seekers, the network of choice for Greens.
As the posters say, it really is OUR ABC.
The ABC's foreign bureaux will be restructured to create "multiplatform hubs" in Washington, London, Beijing and Jakarta.
The Auckland bureau will be closed down, and a new bureau opened in Beirut.
The number of correspondents will stay the same, including the newly created role of chief foreign correspondent.
Sarah nailed it again, with the Auckland bureau closing we will further isolate ourselves from the world. Why does Abbott hate Auckland?
Five regional radio offices will be closed
The poor people of Port Augusta will have Port Pirie generated news, Nowra people will cop Wollongong news people, the folks of Gladstone get Bundaberg or Rockhampton journos, the people of Morwell will have to deal with Sale generated news and the good folk of Wagin will have to put up with journos from Bunbury or Albany! It's an outrage.
The people of the regions are being slaughtered. They no longer have an ABC journo in such thriving places as Wagin, what will the 1427 good people of Wagin do without a local station. How could they listen to nearby towns generated news?
So the ABC is being singled out for an attack and is cutting 400 jobs.
It's an outrage - surely no media organisation in Australia has been put through anything like this?
http://www.smh.com.au/business/fairfax-to-shed-1900-staff-erect-paywalls-20120618-20ix1.html
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-05-07/fairfax-journalists-strike-for-24-hours-over-loss-of-80-jobs/5436232
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2634631/Channel-Ten-cuts-150-staff-dismal-ratings.html
http://www.smh.com.au/business/media-and-marketing/seven-cuts-jobs-in-news-and-current-affairs-20140610-39uux.html
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/channel-nine-to-cut-jobs-freeze-pay/story-e6frfmyi-1226570174282
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/stop-whingeing-about-abc-job-cuts-20141126-11u1fj.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nc&eid=socialn%3Atwi-13omn1677-edtrl-other%3Annn-17%2F02%2F2014-edtrs_socialshare-all-nnn-nnn-vars-o%26sa%3DD%26usg%3DALhdy28zsr6qiq
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