My sister got up one morning and insisted (to my mum) that she was going to break her leg that day. Latter while riding her horse a friends horse kicked her in the leg and snapped the bone.

True stories. Proving of course that I am from a family of psychics.

I predict that the ABC will not be privatised before the next election.

You are not obliged to pay for commercial television. ie you can just not watch it and not waste anytime watching adds. While I’ll be appalled when channel 10 runs psychic investigators, I don’t have to pay for it. I do with the ABC, and I threfore expect them not to be pushing bullshit.

Overall I’m quite happy paying for the ABC in my taxes. I think they produce a number of shows that are beneficial and wouldn’t otherwise be support. They are producing public goods increasing knowledge of science etc with catalyst. They are taking away these goods by running quackery.

a) wasting 1/6 of your viewing time looking at ads

and b) having your information distorted according to commercial interests (see a)

You’ve got DAILY ammunition against the commercial outlets on all the above criteria.

Don’t be evasive. This was a deliberate crusade on the basis of your pre-exisisting ideological opposition to the ABC, in celebration of finally having a genuine complaint that none of the ABC’s defenders would go in to bat for.

In other words, a cheap shot.

Lack of accuracy - and in my experience, the ABC was just as bad as the commercials in this respect, along with lack of accountability - means I think all media is crap. I’ve blogged on the accountability issues elsewhere - I think there should be some comeback on the press in a legal sense when they fuck up so badly people are damaged - either in a civil or criminal sense. Otherwise, I don’t care. The media are stuffed, and the sooner their advertising revenue goes down the toilet because they can’t make the online thing work for them, the better.

That said, as an amateur science buff, I really dislike deliberate horseshit. The stuff the media did about me amounted to the media class believing its own bullshit. Psychic Investigators involves a highly deliberate untruth. There is a difference.

What is your explanation of the post title. See #45.

Is this an admission that only accusations of poor quality programming are legitimate criticisms of the ABC?

If so, why “at last”? Why have you been hanging out for an excuse to ‘bash’ them?