Re: Censorship ? nahhh

zadoc wrote:

Would disagree. The ABC and the SBS are taxpayer funded but like
the BBC are independent and the content is definitely _NOT_ under
Government control.

lol. the government appoints the board members.
The ABC usually toes the government line, but just occassionlly SBS goes
a little different. Like SBs had the comedians making fun of the Cheney
quail shoot, whereas that didn't appear on ABC.

At one stage it was fun to watch the late night ABC news and then see
what disappeared in the morning when the bureacrats arrived.
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