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What do Australians think about ABC bias?

David Llewellyn-Smith
Thursday 30 January 2014
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Crikey today highlights some Newspoll research today that highlights what Australians generally think about ABC news and bias:

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Those results speak for themselves. On individual programs the results were similar. Here are the 7.30 Report (left) and News:

Newspoll also cast some light on whether Australians think the ABC is un-Australian: 

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Essential also shows how ABC credibility stands head and shoulders above other outlets:

Question: How much trust do you have in what you read or hear in the following media?

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I broadly agree that the ABC isn’t biased in its news coverage. That’s not say that it shouldn’t be kept on its toes and couldn’t be run more efficiently. But this line of attack will do the PM no favours in the polls.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.