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Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Feb 5 th, 2014 at 1:00pm: Quantum wrote on Feb 5 th, 2014 at 12:56pm: John Smith wrote on Feb 5 th, 2014 at 12:27pm: Quantum wrote on Feb 5 th, 2014 at 11:10am: Dnarever wrote on Feb 5 th, 2014 at 10:46am: Audience: ALP 36%, Coalition 46%, Greens 10% The number don't make sense. It is too consistent every single week. There has to be more to it. The ABC must regulate the audience to keep those proportions. It would not be possible to get a random group of about 150 people each week and to always get about the same percentage. If they do regulate it, then something is still up, because the response of the audience doesn't fit the make up of it claimed by the ABC. Either the numbers don't include guests (not those on the panel, but those invited by those on the panel who may make up a considerable number in the room) or people are just lying about their affiliation to get on the show. if they didnt regulate it would you scream bias? No. Regulating it is useless if it only creates a false statistic. During the little spat between the Greens and Labor last year there was a few occasions when the greeny ripped into both Labor and Liberal. The crowd erupted in applause. No way was there only 10% greens in the room. It would be better to say nothing about political affiliation, but if they must have a count, then let it be what ever is. If there are 50% greens voters in the room, so be it. Better that then only allow 10% in and have the other 40% pretending to be Labor or Liberal voters just to get in the door. It is just a façade of political balance in the crowd where none exist. My issue of bias comes from the fact that the last two years the show has essentially rotated around three topics; Refugees, Gay marriage, and Climate Change. No matter what the focus that night is supposed to be it always comes back to those three topics. Funnily enough it the three things the greens never shut up on. Now it is not that those three issues are not relevant to either Liberal or Labor, but there are more to those two parties, as well as more things of importance in Australia than those three issues. That is where the bias is. Not so much the people on the show, but the issues that are continuously addressed as if that is all that really matters. The way the crowd responds to those three issues is also out of touch with the temperature of the wider community. If that was all that matters Milne would be PM right now and Brown before her. Clearly most people think there is more to Australia and Government than supporting these three areas. But you wouldn't know that by the boos and cheers from the crowd on Q&A. I tend to agree with the focus. However it may be also that those three topics get the most controversy and therefore most viewers. No doubt it makes for a more fiery debate, but that raises another question of the aims of the ABC; Should viewer statistics matter? Sure there needs to be someone watching for the ABC to be worth having, but they don't need numbers for advertisement money. If they have to use tricks to get people watching then how are they any different to commercial channels? Just last week there was the whole issue of the boat people and the torture claims. Was that news, or just a trumped up issue for a catchy headline to get viewer numbers? I actually support the concept of the ABC and certainly don't want to see it censored or shut down, but I do have issues with the way it is run at the moment. From pushing opinions, corny promos and self advertisement breaks, it is becoming more and more like a commercial channel in its feel and less like the ABC of the past.
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