Comments on: Stick To Your ABC

By: Molesworth

Molesworth — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:06:05 +0000

I, for one, am glad the ABC caters for those with Asperger’s. Now we just need the Train Hour and they’ll be a captured market.

By: Duncan

Duncan — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:41:05 +0000

“Yes, the Inventors is for people with aspergers.”

As is The Collectors.

By: Bob Dumpling

Bob Dumpling — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:16:55 +0000

Everything that these two blogs are doing are done (for better or for worse) by commercial, co-op or self-abusive purposes. There’s no justification for the ABC to be going in this direction.

Yes, The Bill is like Coronation Street in uniform. Yes, the Inventors is for people with aspergers. Yes, Tony Delroy has nothing to add. But you can’t go through the entire ABC and get finicky because you have an opnion. However, there are some aspects (such as these two blogs) which contribute zilch and are a waste of tax payers money.

I’d love to know what the figures are for people visiting these sites. Articulate blog looks like a glorified coffee table book in some pretentious eastern suburbs hair salon.

It’s about time Mark Scott pulled his head in and realised surrounding yourself with pretty people doesn’t make you attractive. David Hill taught us that a long time ago.

By: Don

Don — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:54:04 +0000

What about their iView, it’s pretty bloody good and I haven’t noticed anything as good from the commercial stations yet?

And don’t they need viewers and clickers to maintain their funding and ideally increase it. People lap up the gossip crap, so perhaps it’s one way to help fund their good stuff?

By: stace

stace — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:49:14 +0000

I don’t have a problem with the articulate blog. It’s kinda arts lite for young people, and not something other mainstream media are likely to offer.

The ShallowEnd celebrity blog, however, is total crapola.

By the way, I hope you’re reading the ABC charter ‘all the time’ for work purposes, and not as a hobby. That would most sad, Mr Dumpling.

By: Viveka Weiley

Viveka Weiley — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:33:44 +0000

That celebrity blog in particular seems like a waste of time to me, but then so does The Bill. Aren’t they supposed to “inform and entertain”? Where does it say the ABC is exclusively there to do what the commercials won’t? Fortunately at least these blogs are likely to be very cheap to run, less than one full-time gossip writer in total I’d have thought.