Progress at the ABC.
Dear reader we are delighted with the recent axing of all but one of the music shows on Radio National. To be quite fair they were all rotten. And in case you hadn’t noticed most of the music played on the “ Inside Sleeve”, ‘The Planet’ and the other shows which were too banal to remember were all a bit left-leaning.
‘They were encouraging, by stealth the inculcation of leftist tendencies in the impressionable youth of Australia’. Though it has been recorded that the mean listening age of ABC Listeners is 95, there is a tendency (proven by the Windshuttle institute’s recent finding), that even radicalised nonagenarians can have a deleterious effect upon the ‘established order of things’. The established order as defined by senator Malcolm Roberts is the sum particles of acoustic aural sound waves and their effect upon the human soul. These waves (though undetected by NASA , CSIRO and other defunded agencies) “really do exist” and as proof Professor Roberts cited that left- leaning kineto-psychic-transeference – impulse waves had impacted also upon sexual preferences of Radio National listeners. “Thus’, (his own words) ‘creating a pronounced and remarkable Blip in those surveyed in nursing homes across Australia, of increased and palpable LGBTI tendencies’.
The CEO of the ABC Michelle Guthrie rationalised the impact of the cuts to contemporary music as ‘intuitive’ and based upon ‘worlds best practice’. Asked what would be programmed to fill the gap left by leftist Bolshevist music thought propaganda? Michelle replied enthusiastically, ‘there’s folk music, elevator music and Musak!. And as further evidence of the innovation revolution these music genres, would be programmed on constant rotation’. Michelle also remarked; ‘that at last something would be done to demonstrate balance’, in keeping with the decision to hand over all programming news, and reportage to Murdoch executives.
‘It has long been felt that the ABC neglected significant music of true value. The full song cycle of anything ever written by Andrew Lloyd Weber, Benjamin Britten, Percy Grainger and Mike Brady, ( of “Up Yours Cazaly’ fame) will be at the forefront of our desire to assert traditional values. With this transition music will be accountable and demonstrate progressive thought in moulding the impressionable and open minds of young Australians, and thus truly reflect the integrity of the Innovation revolution.
‘And besides, the music shows were boring, and though i only listen to the odd bit of opera there was never enough recognition paid to Andrew Lloyd Webber. And never once did i hear anything from ‘Cats’.
Indeed the silence will be profound, and dear reader, just in case you are depressed by deletion of the happiness index from ABC programming we give you this snippet from Cecil who en route, (no pun intended) suggests where the synthesis of music comfort and travel are as one.