A media royal commission should examine 'whether or not we need the ABC'

Sky News host Chris Kenny says if there were ever royal commission into media, it should be about whether or not, in this age of unprecedented diversity and access to media and broadcasting service, we need a public broadcaster.

"The national broadcaster's managing director David Anderson was questioned by a parliamentary committee yesterday and showed once more no one is in charge at the ABC and its journalists are running biased, green-left propaganda unchecked," he said.

"Almost two weeks ago, in my media column in The Australian, I revealed a tweet by the ABC 730 program's leading political reporter Laura Tingle.

"Back then Tingle apparently was upset that a long time ABC TV reporter in Sydney had taken voluntary redundancy.

"No doubt this reporter, Phillippa McDonald, and yes, she's a good reporter, no doubt she took what would have been a generous redundancy because that's what she decided to do."

"But no, for Tingle this was about ABC funding, this was about ABC staff being the victims of a mean right-of-centre government."

Mr Kenny said Ms Tingle gave her left-wing zeal away on Twitter when she said her colleague's departure was the result of "government ideological bastardy" and that she hoped the prime minister was "feeling smug".

"Now this shows disdain for the government, it betrays a green-left view of the world, and it bells the cat on ABC jaundice.

"Yet of course, Tingle turned up the next day on the couch of Insiders, just another of the always dominant green-left voices on a panel that is supposed to be either objective or representative."

Mr Kenny said Tingle happened to be just another ABC journalist who favours big government, public sector growth, climate action, and bleeding heart causes.

"There's nothing wrong with that, close to half the country leans left. But she's supposed to be objective at the ABC," he said.

"The ABC's supposed to be at pains to demonstrate fairness and balance but despite half the country being right of centre, the ABC can't find room for right of centre reporters or commentators.

"There is just no hope for fairness or reformat the ABC."

Mr Kenny said the national broadcaster used taxpayer money to actively campaign against private enterprise.

"It campaigns against investments in coal mines, it campaigns against industries like live cattle exports, or sports like greyhound racing, and it campaigns in favour of subsidised renewable energy, and for union power," he said.

"Taxpayers fund journalists and comedians who use their taxpayer-funded platforms to encourage people to cancel News Corp subscriptions.

"What a perversion, taxpayer-funded staffers campaigning to hurt commercial enterprises."

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