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Why the ABC Should be Defunded · The Slippery Slope

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  OK, today I want to look at yet again why the ABC should be
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  defunded. We've got false narratives,
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  activism, and remember, manufactured scandals.
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  I'm Jay Fallon and this is the Slippery Slope podcast.
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  Get my straight So today we're going to be talking about the
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  Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the ABC.
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  This is time, I believe, to seriously consider defunding the
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  taxpayer funded institution. This isn't about politics, this
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  isn't about left versus right. This is about truth.
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  It's about accountability and the role, the role of a national
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  broadcaster that has repeatedly abandoned its responsibility to
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  the Australian public and the latest controversies.
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  You got Gina Rinehart, what they've said about her, the the
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  narratives that they've pushed regarding Gina Rinehart.
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  And then you've also got remember the manufactured
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  gunshot scandal that happened a while ago.
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  These prove once again that the ABC is no longer a neutral
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  broadcaster. It is an activist organisation
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  pushing narratives and not facts.
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  So in the last couple of weeks the ABC has been forced to
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  remove 2 separate pieces involving Gina Rinehart because
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  they contained false claims and yet due diligence wasn't done
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  before before they broadcast these episodes.
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  No, so we had the first one. Was this episode called Race
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  around the World? Reinhart has put the ABC on
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  notice over an episode that misrepresents her and pushed a
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  narrative that it's not just that, it's not, it's just
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  absolutely disgusting and it's the narrative is pushed as
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  though with some kind of comedy and it's just outrageous what
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  they've done, what they've said. Then you've got this wage claim
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  incident. It was the second failure, a
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  Victorian socialist candidate, who I'll put a picture up here,
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  is only 1818 years old. She's a socialist candidate.
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  An 18 year old shouldn't be a candidate.
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  OK, and 18 year olds are. What?
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  Are you just too immature? Way too immature.
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  And only an 18 year old. I shouldn't say only an 18 year
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  old. Plenty of older people think
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  this as well, but you know, an 18 year old who's a socialist,
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  well, there's no surprise there really.
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  But a Victorian socialist candidate, she's 18, went on the
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  ABC radio and claimed without, not just without evidence, but
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  when you read the full, when you read the context of the article
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  that she was talking about and what Gina Rinehart actually
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  said, it's completely false. So she's gone on without this
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  evidence and said that Gina Rinehart wants Australians to
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  work for $2.00 a day. Completely false.
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  Completely false. It's taken completely out of
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  context. The the issue is the ABC host
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  did not challenge it at all. Didn't ask for evidence, didn't
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  correct the socialist, the AB, the 18 year old socialist didn't
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  correct them. So they they aired it.
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  Then they quietly removed it days later.
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  That's not journalism, that is activism.
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  Then remember the gunshot scandal that happened a while
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  ago? I think the the Reinhardt
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  incidents, they really pale in comparison when you think of
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  this disgraceful scandal. The ABC added fake gunshots,
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  fake gunshot sounds to military footage to make an Australian
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  soldier look like he was firing unnecessarily.
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  I don't know why you would do that, why any sensible person
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  would do that. So let it sink in for a second.
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  That's not a mistake, it's not a misunderstanding.
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  This is a deliberate audio manipulation designed to create
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  a false narrative, a false impression of misconduct.
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  And the footage originally contained, I believe it
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  contained no gunshots. The ABC added them in post
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  production. So why you could?
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  The only answer would be was to weave a narrative, to imply
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  wrongdoing, to push a story that fit their ideological agenda.
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  This is fabrication. It's it's deception and it's
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  propaganda. And it was done by a taxpayer
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  funded broadcaster. If a private media company did
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  this, they'd be sued into oblivion.
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  But the ABC, they get another billion dollars every year of
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  taxpayer funding. This is it's not an accident.
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  This is a pattern, these scandals.
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  Reinhardt the the the wage claims, the fake gunshots,
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  they're not isolated. They fits this long running
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  pattern that we've already exposed, we've already talked
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  about on on the slippery slope. The ABC pushes ideological
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  narratives. It selectively reports facts.
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  It's it protects certain political agendas, political
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  groups while attacking others. It refuses accountability,
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  refuses accountability until forced by public pressure, and
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  it manufacturers drama when reality doesn't fit their story.
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  And it uses taxpayer money to promote activism instead of
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  journalism. This is not a public
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  broadcaster. This is a political machine.
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  And why should we Australians pay for it?
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  The ABC is supposed to be impartial.
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  It's supposed to be factual, trustworthy and accountable.
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  It's none of these things. Instead, it's become, it's
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  become partisan, ideological, careless, hostile towards any
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  dissenting voices and willing to manipulate footage to push a
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  narrative, to push the narrative that they that they believe in.
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  And Australians, we are forced to fund it, whether we like it,
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  whether we agree with its contents or whether we don't.
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  So this is the core issue. Why should taxpayers be forced
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  to pay for a broadcaster that spreads misinformation, that
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  spreads lies that manufacturers scandals and acts as a political
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  actor rather than a neutral public service?
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  Remember the Bible says in Isaiah 5914.
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  It says that truth has stumbled in the streets and honesty
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  cannot enter. This is where I think Australia
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  is at the moment. Truth has stumbled in our
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  streets. Truth is hard to find on the
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  streets of Australia, whether it's in the ABC, the corridors
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  of the ABC or the corridors of our parliaments.
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  Truth stumbles within these systems.
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  Honesty cannot enter. When institutions abandoned
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  truth society, the whole society, suffers.
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  When leaders ignore accountability.
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  And remember, we have a Prime Minister at the moment who will
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  not be held accountable for anything he says.
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  Well, then corruption grows. When media becomes propaganda,
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  the public becomes misinformed. So the ABC has stumbled and it
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  keeps stumbling. Once.
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  Once a national broadcaster decides it can push false
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  narratives, silence opposing views, smear individuals without
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  evidence. And I mean, Gina Reinhardt's
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  just fortunate that she is wealthy enough, obviously
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  wealthy enough to to fight back, to push back against it.
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  Unfortunately, you have a lot of Australians who cannot do this.
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  So you've got this national broadcaster that's decided that
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  they can smear individuals, even the filthy rich ones.
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  They can manipulate footage, they can manufacture gunshots to
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  imply wrongdoing. Then the slope becomes steep.
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  Because if truth is optional, propaganda becomes inevitable.
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  And that's why defunding the ABC is not extreme.
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  It's responsible. Australia deserves a media
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  landscape where truth matters more than ideology.
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  No matter what you believe, regardless of whether it fits
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  your personal ideology, your personal belief system,
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  Australia deserves a media landscape where truth matters.
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  As always, this is just my opinion.
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  I'm still Jay Fallon, and thanks for listening to the Slippery
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  Slope podcast. They just feel.
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  The desire