There's a bear in there

Trish Bolton, who lectures in 'media and communications' at Swinburne University of Technology, has news for those of us in the blogosphere. Forget all that talk you've heard about getting your news from the Internet as an alternative to dead-tree media: there's a truly independent voice you've been overlooking. It's...the ABC!

"All the research shows that Australians trust their ABC....Hands up who doesn't know the ABC news theme, or who didn't watch PlaySchool?"

Er, gee, Trish, what happens to me if I do put my hand up, cause I sure as hell never watched Playschool? And exactly which 'ABC news theme' does she mean, given that the famous TV news theme was scrapped at least a year ago?

But I'd be happy if Trish could answer just one test question: if the ABC is so independent, and the Internet so captive, why is it that I only heard about the Sandy Berger case on the 'net, and never a single word on any Australian mainstream media, let alone the ABC? It couldn't be anything to do with the fact that Berger was an ex-Clinton staffer, could it? If he had been an ex-Bush staffer, the ABC would have been running this story 24/7.