@alonso; the relentless attacks waged by the Coalition and Murdoch Mouthpieces for decades now which led to budget cuts and to the heavy censorship of real news at the ABC has indeed taken a toll.
Atop the list was the incredibly DUMB decision to close down ABC broadcasts into China merely because Murdoch's publications couldn't get a foothold therein - the Coalition deprived Australia of having a direct influence into China!
What's been done to ABC morning television news since September 2013 is what I'd expect of Communist China, North Korea and Russia.
And why has that been done ... Murdoch Mouthpieces expected the Coalition to deliver them monopoly control of Australia's MSM, wherein 'investigative reporting of 'news' is replaced with poorly researched opinionated, partisan commentary.
