Denton is one ABC presenter who takes his job seriuosly, and does it well. One way to avoid the percieved danger of singing only one tune in church or the equally woosy ban on all singing is to let the guest do it .( Bono last night)

RAGE Letting the children do what they like - What a disgrace the ABC has to run a monocultural drone into the morning = what for? the good of the kids. Can't teh ABC find something different for kids on saturday mornings . You Don't win any points by playing the same old same old they get on radio - in case you haven't noticed , children need and respond to a challenge .

LATELINE friday SO SHALLOW i won't wait around for judith or gerard again . The discussion on Howards success was about as deep as the proverbial birdbath;judith brett having to be propped up by affirmations and explanataions from Ms Mckeew.the left needs all the help it can get .
Most intellent austarialns as opposed to that fictional airy group mentioned by Judith Brett, know that the comfort of conservatives has more to do with coal and other primary exports than anything to do with anti egalitarian policies of busines knows best. The rich get richer and paradoxically the oppostion is nowhere to be seen

& PROTECTIVE OF THE OVER 40's LATELINE finishes with a great graph on the asseet value of the avaerage austrailn . Far more impresive would be the occasional graph on the affordability of family life for people under 30. I won't wait up . As former ABC addicts we watch littel ABC and hours of video we never used to.

ABC CHURCH continues with The glass house pretending to hold a moral discussion with movers and shakers in same vein as the reactionaries might have done 30yrs ago boring. Fringe mentality of the reactionaries evident in the sycophant child questions re US attitudes to us .who cares what they think of us !!!!!

Glass house is at least talking about happens and asks some good questions. Hard on the uS ? a good question at least ---Bur as usual you go nowhere with it. Science you dummies doesn't answer the questions and you only envcourage stilted reactive resaerch buy pretending it does .Keeps it safe and in your conmfort zone . When are you going to discuss teleology , tolerance muslims and religious faiths .You could hardly do a worse job than geraldines (Compass ) predictable droning on safe stuff .SBS do an outstanding job of starting it with father bob - what a hoot !

the ABc maybe wanting us to switch to SBS on wedneday nights by forcing on us excessive and goulish, but the 4 corners program on the PPP rhetoric about the sydney tunnel gives the ABC big points sfor good reporting on critical areas of current crap ( watch water industry contracts for example ) .

Never learn much watching ABC Current A (CA)anymore- well esp early in the day/evening . Hosts control the debate to the point of protecting the comfort zone of their ageing and dwindling audiences .Stateline host FRIDAY did'nt even let Feilding make HIS points on RU486 .switching questions and calling in time . well we have no more time either for the ABC CAoldies we seldom watch CA on ABC anymore - so controlled .

Lawrence of Arabia's depression- good program
Depression can get to the sword carrier after the last deaths don't make the needed difference. For more on good governance and how to avoid depressed leaders and develop realistic ones.

The Grumpies are great - their Christmas therapy of that rare thing called open conversation, something to cheer here for .Infact there are some great vieweing things on ABC TV this month ,including those powerful ARdmann clay characters.

SCHOOLS SPECTACULAR
Great entertainmenta and talent, so next year lets hear the storytelling . We taped and watched this great show as there is so little on sunday nights ABC. Was very busy. Hope you can capture a bit more light and shade next time

MDA tonight. Great stuff. We are winning when the ABC lets the public tell its story and you are doing it very well .
Who did you think was the real villian in the Valley?. . My dance around the fruit stall tommorow will be marred a little by the demonising of ministers and our failure to NAME the slippery curves of the last twenty years .

The storytellers could still do alot to to avoid crashes for those ministers and media people who continue to get drawn into very costly cyclones and cul desacs because they want something better than what was handed down to them to look after .

I wonder how many thousands of ABC viewers FOUND something else to do while the ageing lefties indulged in a bit of projection and denial with MARK LATHAM tonight. Low point Andrew

re 730 report on TELSTRA . Yes it was bit like days of our drearies . Switch back on after 15 min and still the same stuff going on . Back to the cricket--- well done SBS !

7:30 retorts -we now switch off or over. 7:30 retorts -its mostly chanting. A classic last week was when the presenter made himself the foil and let the PM preach . Its not reporting - where was the opposition argument on TELSTRA ( whole country wanted to know) put by someone who KNOWS how to respond- chanting may suit many, but it doesn't answer the questions and let us get beyond old reactionary retorts and blatant rhetoric .

THE BILL -- what a mess - its just not worth watching .so much lead you round by the neck soap. as if anyone would believe the leadup and the event ts in the marriage ceremony by the riverside construct is anything more than wishfull thinking by the author. No wonder the ABC have finally pulled it, and the good actors refuse to cooperate "with expression". . The writers are confused about what real life and real enemies are .

Everyone in the building has such big issues, its no wonder the focus never really gets out of it anymore .
Its now so much a reflection of the self centred navel gazing worldview thats killing rather than building communities. thats drag down .

What a contrast was FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT on AFGANISTAN . Reprting at its very best . While we weren't spoon fed solutions the producers did an outstanding job of putting the deep challenges in perspective .Jung said the problem was man made and by implicaion solvable but not with ham fisted quick fix. More on carrots and sticks in Agcommunities

The church was in full voice when Barnaby walked through the door . How can any good thing come from northern Queensland? Dear me, the cringe factor is back!
Time to have a good look at the facts Boys ---by those who chant business and flat earth economists to make themselves feel comfortable .

What would a country person know???
The truth , from experience, about complex risk and long term investment matters perhaps ?
The chanters are, under the noisy surface , worried about what works in the bush. Its obviously too complex a risk environment for them and their advisers . After all it wasn't just telephones that went down in the cold snap ! and shareholders know lots --or is it just that they have a lot of influence and ..........goodwill ?

The ISSUE this week was simple ---Just the price of Telstra.
And Barnaby won over the carping
Both sides of politics once knew the tragedy of those who know the price of everything but can't discern the value of anything.

Maybe the bush has something worth knowing about ?

Spicks, specks and problems with your vision
ABC TV We enjoy it, mostly !
Those of you who are worshipers of all that is better in the future in your team need to realize the futures closing in on them . Why? Because mature adults maintaining childish reactionary profiles is denying our children the past (Too much of ABC evening entertainment is about ridiculing the past and those who DO things )

Sorry fellows , you got it wrong. You can't switch the Light off. You all know very well if you are going to play historian, or wise with words( because most of you know better) that people just ignore the Light. After all, whose music is selling on your ad breaks.
The Soweto gospel choir . Is it Good words, good music, new songs or old songs, or on the wholistic front- just wonder material ? tell us next week what you think ? Can’t you say what Bob Carr said ?
Ignoring the light is the norm, and switching it off is anthropomorphic driven myth- the driver of that irrational fanatical power that prevents reality therapy and sustainable change at the good old ABC. Nostalgia is fine as long as it doesn't reflect a childish mentality.

There are none so blind as those who will not see, or those who quench the interest of the young in alternatives. ( via ridicule)
The light is still on and young people are increasingly choosing to ignore the ABC and its stuffy old approach to songs worth singing .Psalms 96:1 tells the story very well.

On the whole I really like your program, but like many evenings "home" , I switch off when the ABC fail to value what's truly valuable (a very childish thing) and "dumb up " parts of the past that are imaginary, immature and blinkered in vision . ABC is very much the poorer for its monoculture of tired old blinkered and branded stuff .Grow up ABC?

4 Corners on City -Country Divide. Chris masters has done some great work on behalf of the very complex issues of water and resource management . If only policy groups would do it more and better with greater objectivity so we don't get more quick fix .

But even Chris Masters must be wondering why the silence . The country has been in no talk mode for a while .

A Challenge to the superficial and myopic paradigms of the city -- test the deep water--- our friends in the city - too much apparent care is patronising and unwilling deafness in cocontenation with alophobia etc.

"Farmers get too much already " 4 corners ABC tonight
The way governments throw money carelessly at problems would have given this excellent portrait real bite .
Conserving tax resources to store hay and keep professionals in the bush is not rocket science- it just needs to happen .Country people are absolutely on the mark right to call for understanding, not sympathy. That understanding will continue to diminish while experts leave or burn rubber to listen! Its all practical stuff but it has to happen .
Its plain silly to expect producers to solve the eco nonsense that both parties wisper in comfortable and dismissive chant.
After all if country people stimulate the innovation , independance and glass half full attitudes this country needs , our "let it all happen" polys need to look a bit closer .
Country people don't waste resources. Its bureaucrats, quangos and ignorant politicians who tow the simple lines of high risk and high exhaustion , who don't know what they are talking about on the environment ( peter andrews story on austory) and who change direction to keep manageing faddish funding schemes.

Will Media be banned from AFL Clubrooms -as from Today !

What a scoop (a great point of High political juggularity )if some non conformist in sleepy hollow woke up to WHY we waste so much money on the environment . Simililarrly it would be a great waste if all the noise about that fantastic story on Peter Andrews ( Australain story ABCTV this week) got no further than a slanging match about " who knows best " .

I am not going to spell it out here except to say that a common phobia ( often held in denial by persons affected ) is rife and a s result environmental health care is a complete cot case in traditional health care terms (This condition is well known to practicioners of any competence.A few clues will be handedout on cuttingedge conservation

CANBERRA VS THE STATES Farmers VS the Academics

Wouldn't it be great if the ABC dug a bit deeper and found someone other that a poly who knew something about "erosion water quality and biodiversity ". Sure to liven up the tired old ABC and give it some credibility - just like that great story on Aust story did last week - enviroemnatl matters are too complex to be massaged into simplicity by either side of politics , the food chain and the increasingly uncontrollable nimby knowalls .

Clue: heritage listing is a distraction !

Foriegn Correspondent - again excellent stories both esp Jane Hutchison on the Zimbabwe situtaion through the eyes of an author . . Your professional reporting is a welcome weekly change from the arrogant authorship and interference too common across public broadcasting services.