{"id":274,"date":"2006-06-15T19:55:27","date_gmt":"2006-06-15T09:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=274"},"modified":"2006-06-20T17:40:26","modified_gmt":"2006-06-20T07:40:26","slug":"suggestions-for-abc-board-membership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=274","title":{"rendered":"Suggestions for ABC board membership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"10\" hspace=\"10\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" title=\"And you thought Janet Albrechtsen was the end of the bad news\" alt=\"And you thought Janet Albrechtsen was the end of the bad news\" src=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/blogimages\/abc_burning_tn.jpg\" \/>In the wake of the elimination of the staff-elected ABC board position (which was won by Quentin Dempster, who was then unceremoniously dumped) and today&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/newsitems\/200606\/s1664179.htm\">appointment of extreme right-wing nutbag Keith Windschuttle to the ABC board<\/a>, allow me to make a few more suggestions to complete the absolute destruction of the independence of a once legendary national broadcaster:<\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.blogspot.com\/2005\/12\/dr-james-saleam-australia-first-and.html\">Jamahl &#8220;Jim&#8221; Saleam<\/a>, NSW secretary for the Australia First Party and well experienced neo-nazi<\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/mediawatch\/akerman.htm\">Piers Akerman<\/a> &amp; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/boltwatch.blogspot.com\/\">Andrew Bolt<\/a>, Murdochian right-wing fuckwits supreme and deluxe (respectively)<\/p>\n<p>* <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pauline_Hanson\">Pauline Hanson<\/a>, washed up One Nation pollie and hardcore racist<\/p>\n<p>* <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/guruann.blogspot.com\/2005\/08\/tale-of-2-jacks.html\">Jack-also-known-as-Steve (JAKAS) Medcraft<\/a> of People Against Lenient Sentencing (who really <em>should<\/em> join the <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/isitwrongtowishonspacehardware.blogspot.com\/2005_01_30_isitwrongtowishonspacehardware_archive.html#110735389881131131\">Patriotik Yoof Leauge<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>* <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/news\/national\/alan-jones-i-led-this-charge\/2005\/12\/12\/1134236003153.html\">Alan Jones<\/a>, well-known race baiter and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/dailyflute.com\/?p=941\">right-wing crank<\/a><\/p>\n<p>* <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.redrag.net\/2005\/09\/21\/fraser\/\">Drew Fraser<\/a>, disgraced racist academic and dedicated anti-semite<\/p>\n<p>* <strike>       <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/anonymouslefty.blogspot.com\/2005\/02\/janet-and-abc.html\">Janet Albrechtsen<\/a>, hater of independent journalism <\/strike> (<em>oops, she&#8217;s already on the board.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>It <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=231\"><em><strong>was<\/strong><\/em> your ABC<\/a>. Now it&#8217;s John Howard&#8217;s mates&#8217; ABC.<\/p>\n<p>-weez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of the elimination of the staff-elected ABC board position (which was won by Quentin Dempster, who was then unceremoniously dumped) and today&#8217;s appointment of extreme right-wing nutbag Keith Windschuttle to the ABC board, allow me to make a few more suggestions to complete the absolute destruction of the independence of a once [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}