Rejection of competition complaints wasn’t what the Australian was hoping for. Plus: Ray Hadley sees the light
A $1.2m inquiry, which included a fact-finding mission to London for the expert panel, found this week that the ABC and the SBS were not disrupting News Corp’s business model by offering free online news and streaming, and the biggest threat was Facebook and Google. The Australian, which had campaigned hard for the inquiry, called it “a bitter pill” to swallow.
“It is glaringly obvious the ABC enjoys a competitive advantage over commercial media,” blasted the Oz commentator Mark Day in defiance of the actual evidence in the report by the economist Robert Kerr, the commercial TV lobbyist Julie Flynn and the former ABC TV executive and producer Sandra Levy. “It is gifted a billion dollars a year of your money and doesn’t need to bother about small matters like raising enough revenue to fund its business or deliver a profit to shareholders. But in the world of bureaucratic gobbledygook, this does not mean it has an unfair advantage.”
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