The Daily Telegraph and Herald Sun are least trusted but amongst the highest selling papers.
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News and Fairfax papers are renowned for their sensationalist journalism more than most sources, so itâs not surprising that they are among the least trusted sources. They are in it for the sales.
Similarly with Seven, Nine and Ten. They are more concerned with ratings, this is much less so with ABC and SBS, so there is a perception that their reporting will be more accurate, hence the trust factor.
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Elysse Morgan fronted a one-sided report on the GST. What could have been a good feature about the twentieth anniversary of the tax and options for the future, was instead a biased story pushing for the GST to be raised. Itâs almost as if the ABC is trying to get on the governmentâs good side by sucking up to them. I thought the ABC was supposed to have balanced news reports.
John Howard and John Hewson were interviewed, but they only used a couple of grabs from Howard and basically just one sentence from Hewson. The interviews with two important figures in the history of the tax were wasted. The interviews with two state treasurers were also wasted.
Instead Elysse Morgan bounced around the edge of Sydney Harbour gleefully saying that it needed to be raised, and no one appeared who had a different point of view.
An absolute disgrace.
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End of Fin year spend it seems?
Happy EOFYS. 
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Oh dear, youâre reminding me of those dreadful Foxtel commercials from about a decade ago!
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Possibly not the right thread, but wasnât too sure where else to ask this.
Is there any reason the ABC does not have multi-city regional bulletins in place?
Given the way regional news is going nowadays, I feel the ABC are in a great position to have regional bulletins.
I was thinking about how they have ABC News Canberra and ABC News Darwin and it got me wondering why there isnât an ABC News North QLD. The entire NQ region has a population of about 500,000, which is much larger than Canberra or Darwin. The bulletin could be broadcast in Cairns, Townsville, Mackay, and along the northwestern QLD transmitters. It would certainly be more relevant than the Brisbane bulletin is.
Is it just a matter of funding, or is there some other reason that ABC doesnât have any regional news bulletins in place?
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One big limiting factor is that there is only one regional feed for each state, so that there is no way to have different programs across different regions.
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Yep, there used to be separate âcapital cityâ and âregionalâ feeds of the ABCâs main channel (only really evident whenever local radio promos were played) but these ended a while ago.
Iâd imagine that a lack of funds and infrastructure has something to do with there being a lack of any more expansive local ABC News bulletins on television.
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Late reply, but itâs worth filing a complaint on this if you havenât already. A clear breach of editorial standards.
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Thanks.
I agree. The story came across as a biased puff piece, which is what I thought when I saw it on Sunday night. Iâve watched it again just to make sure, there certainly was very little balance.
Iâm not usually one who considers the ABC to have right wing bias (like those who criticise David Speers on Twitter every Sunday morning), but the story seemed to be cheerleading for a GST increase.
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I guess as others have said they have state feeds, not local. Would be quite a huge infrastructure hurdle. This is where IPlayer comes in.
Would be awesome to see ABC start to offer regional news bulletins live and on demand on IPlayer accesses vĂa post code.
NSW could perhaps be split into 6
Sydney & Central Coast
Newcastle & Hunter
Northern
North West
Southern
Western
And each region get a live 10 minute bulletin at 6.50pm leading into 7pm news
ABC would love to, but they donât have the budgets, they used to IIRC until early 90s? Maybe late 80s?
Itâs something they should do, and should be funded to doâŚ
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Only 10 minutes? Personally I think a dedicated bulletin for the capital cities and at least some of the larger regions (from a NSW perspective, certainly Newcastle & Hunter + Wollongong & the Illawarra) would need to be a full half hour.
You canât tell me with a straight face that not enough happens in a region of five million people like âSydney and Central Coastâ to fill a full half hour bulletin. Sure on some nights youâd probably be looking at local council issues, but thatâs not necessarily a bad thing when 11 out of the 13 local government areas in NSW with over 200k residents live in this âSydney and Central Coastâ market. Iâm sure there are important stories which happen in these places which currently get minimal (or even no) media coverage but would be worthwhile for the ABC to do reporting on.
If Iâm not mistaken, ABC Regional News on TV ended in the mid-1980s.
While such a proposal is unlikely to happen anytime soon, of course I agree itâd be absolutely fantastic if it became a reality.
Something is better than nothing, it wouldnât replace the 7pm news but just include the hokey local stories like the annual show, council politics and sport.
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Plenty happens. Iâd start at 10 minutes and increase to 15 or 30 if successful. Remember this is iView - viewing is probably a little different.