This bloke has stunning credentials for fact finding we’re told.
Still the recommendations keep coming in,and some of them have been remarkable.
The PM says the abc board have gotta clean up their act, and we’re right behind him. Seems all the board members were selected by his very own Communications Minister, and were glad to say only one of the recently selected board members was reccomended by the selection panel. All the rest, the vast majority except the two abc staff selected board members know nothing about the abc. They have no experience in journalism. No experience in digital technologies, media, morse telgraphy, semaphore, cunieform, cyrillic nor calligraphy. Yet all of them have some interest in mining, big business, know mates in big business and a little bit (if you look at their interests) in COAL.
This bloke understands MATESHIP! He’s renowned for getting results and keeping things in order.
And this just demonstrates how squealy clean and above board the board of the abc are, cos we all know that even clean coal is black and quite dirty. Even on the floor of parliament it needs to be carefully handled. It will make dirty marks all over your impeccably tailored Italian suit. Just as well then, all of our board members are White. More whiter than Chesty Bond. More pure in their whitensss and some may suggest, (uncharitably) considerably more overtly white than the “ others”. Those hapless non purely white people who actually represent quite a few modern Australians. And that’s a good thing. Cos if we had people of ethnic, or other ancestry, even a token, (dare we say it ) Aboriginal Australian, that would taint the high level decision making processes of the board. And influence, slant, skew, corrupt the singlemindedness of a board that represents all the rest of us as white, middle class, and as far as the last CEO Justin Milne confirmed, very lucky and very prosperously connected business people.
Thus lady has all the right credentials. Perhaps more suitable to the board of AMP though. Cos she’s DEAD.
These are the people we want to lead the ABC. People of business. Not troublesome thinkers. Not big ideas people. We don’t want people on the board to think beyond the square. We want people to be just square, and forthright, and reliable in their squareness. The last thing we want are free thinkers, and that’s the problem with journalists as our colleague Janet Albrechtson pointed out, they’re liable to go off the rails and start talking about equity, representation, and inclusiveness. Before you know it they’ll be talking tax reform and they’ll go all Alberici on you. How bloody ungrateful is that !!
WE believe this little man is an ambitious pollie who also knows how to get things done and knows the importance of MATESHIP!
So it’s reassuring that the new acting Chairman is ex military. She’s a dynamo, and represents, as she’s a woman, a woman’s perspective. WE reckon she may not be as representative as a troublesome Germaine Greer type. But as a woman she knows how to deal with the glass celiling, me too, and a goverment who doesn’t like women getting too uppity.
That’s why it’s a singular bonus that she’s ex military. She understands, unlike some of the troublesome managers beforehand, how to accept orders. And she say’s she’ll keep her hands off the running of the abc. Which is bloody good news That’s what Rupert said, and we believe him. And she’ll keep the other board members who know nothing about journalism but a lot about coal mining and being mates to some pretty decent politicians and businnessmen how things shoud run.
The way we see it, journalism is just like the army, you’ve gotta take orders and obey. To disobey is insubordinate. And that’s when authority is lost. And as the PM says ‘clean up their act’ and start reporting real news rather than news about themselves. Then we can all relax, and go back to watching Q and A.
Before we switch the light out,
From the US, this bloke comes with stunning credentials. He gets MATESHIP also.
And go to bed.