Right Pulse

…with a new left-wing blog called The Drum, to complement their existing blog called Off Air. These are blogs where ABC journalists drop any pretence to balance and let their left-wing fantasies run free. First off the rank is Annabel Crabb, who writes a mocking piece about Tony Abbott to complement the 17 other pieces she has so far written critical of the Liberal Party in her first two weeks at the ABC. A reader called Hermit picks up on Crabb’s overt bias:

More whimsical delights from Ms Crabb. What is her job description again? ABC Online’s Chief Political Reporter?

Apparently we still have nothing risible on the Labor side of politics. Surely Ms Crabb can think up something vacuous and inane that can be spun into a sneering piece about Mr Rudd. How about flying back to Australia to give a press conference outside a church to denounce Mr Abbott’s religious views? Or how about the irony of burning vast amounts of jet fuel to save the planet from CO2 emissions.

Come on Ms Crabb, you know you want to!

And he continues:

Ms Crabb has now written 18 pieces for the ABC. It may surprise readers to analyse the topics. You guessed it, 18 pieces about the opposition. Zero about the government.

Crabb actually comes back on the comments.

Hi Hermit – Thanks for your message – and I understand your desire for balance. In my defence, can I point out that I have been working at the ABC for just under two weeks, a fortnight which has been dominated by the rearrangements in the ranks of the Opposition? If you review my past content at the SMH, you will notice that I am much more even in my attentions over the cycle. So please stay tuned.

So Crabb basically admits that she is biased. She claims that all the news has been about the Opposition. Is Crabb then saying that there is nothing else in the political arena to write about? She is a journalist and her job is to find the news not simply join in with her left wing mates in bashing Tony Abbott. It is a mark of Crabb’s laziness that she has failed to provide a critique of  Rudd’s carbon tax and trade plan or any other issue or election promise that the government should be held to account. And of course your taxes pay her salary.