Political Blog
Monday, February 13, 2006
Michael Duffy's Hypocrisy
The ABC must sack Michael Duffy. An employee attempting to bring its employer into disrepute would not be tolerated by any other boss – public or private.While obviously taking thousands of dollars of taxpayers money through his salary from the ABC, Mr Duffy continues to run down our national broadcaster through public utterances like those in the SMH on Saturday.
Mr Duffy agitates against the ABC securing additional funding. Funding that would help the organisation keep pace with inflation and the costs of new digital technology. He further suggests that the ABC should not provide any services which might be provided by the commercial sector.
Except for his program presumably.
If Mr Duffy believes his own rhetoric, he should subject himself to it. Why doesn't Mr Duffy try and get a job promoting his right wing views in commercial radio? Is any national commercial network going to give Mr Duffy a prime time weekly 1 hour gig? I don't think so.
Mr Duffy owes his job at Radio National to politics. Unlike everyone else at the ABC who had to win positions on merit, Mr Duffy had a whole program invented by an ABC management desperate to pander to the Howard Government.
The irony of this hypocrisy is completely lost on Mr Duffy - but not on us readers who are a least a little relieved to see that Alan Ramsay has got his side column back on Saturdays - thereby forcing Mr Duffy to the bottom of the page.
Of course the ABC won't sack Mr Duffy, but if he had any integrity he would resign.
[This post was first published by Crikey]
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