So it coudnt find time for howards interview but has found time to give wilkie and anyone who wants to bag howard a platform for that.
The ABC’s ratings for Kerry O’Brien’s love-in with Paul Keating:
8 KEATING ABC1 886,000
Channel Seven’s ratings for Janet Albrechtsen’s interview last night with John Howard:
6 SUNDAY NIGHT Network 7 ,1058,000
Hmm. So why didn’t the ABC run the Howard interview, since that would have also helped to address the impression - the reality, really - that it is hopelessly biased? July 12:
THE ABC has rejected a major television interview series with former prime minister John Howard, just six months after airing a four-part program with Paul Keating.
The series, working title John Howard Defined, will be conducted by The Australian columnist and former ABC board member Janet Albrechtsen and has been snapped up by the Seven Network…
With ABC managing director Mark Scott on leave, spokesman Michael Millett said the ABC had been “interested in the concept” of a Howard series but would find it “difficult to slot” into its schedule.
Mr Millett said the ABC told Albrechtsen it was “concerned about her lack of on-air interviewing experience” ... Industry insiders were surprised that the ABC would decline the project, especially given that after recent criticism over perceived green-left bias, the Howard series would have been a timely opportunity to demonstrate some balance.
