#016 : Did you SEE that raised eyebrow?!

Sydney Morning Herald, Letters, 30/10

A riposte is possible to unremitting right-wing assaults on an ABC cowed by the Coalition ’s determination to homogenise it into journalistic blancmange: do a Gerard Henderson. Monitor key programs, somehow twist them as biased toward the right and inundate Howard’s stacked board with complaints of imbalance. If Late line’s Tony Jones smiles when interviewing Kevin Rudd, label it "derision". If Kerry O’Brien raises an eyebrow grilling Kim Beazley, call it "cynicism". With sufficient imagination, neo-fascist tendencies could doubtless be construed in Richard Glover and Virginia Trioli. A tsunami of nitpicking emails might cancel out Henderson and fellow travellers testing Mark Scott ’s guidelines to their petty limits. - Ron Sinclair, Bathurst