Outgoing managing director dismisses ABC’s critics as ‘newspaper polemicists and shock jocks’ and warns governments are the greatest threat to the ABCThe ABC’s managing director,ticket Scott, has used his final address to slam the Abbott government for breaking its promise to maintain funding for the public broadcaster and stripping it of $350m after the election.
He dismissed the ABC’s critics as newspaper polemicists and shock jocks”, and saying it was governments that posed the greatest threat to the ABC,which was a vital fraction of Australian culture.
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Source: theguardian.com