it never ceases to amaze me how hypocritical the left wing are, how much hate they project is inversely proportional to the truth of their arguments, i find it fascinating and also irritating. 
examples of this, well it's everywhere. using something current lets look at the abc.
we should invert the argument, lets say we got various right wing ideologists to host the shows, who in turn invited right wing guests and right wing experts, rightwing comedians and right wing journalists, musicians, bloggers and philosophers. i imagine there would be a riot somewhere. i would join in.
well that's what the abc has, only in a left wing prison / prism, therefore all the current affairs is basically a one dimensional perspective. the only show broadcast by the supposedly right wing (libertarians) was on radio national once a week called, counterpoint. two brilliant journalists hosted this show and they were really smart, dry wit, intelligent guests and took the counterpoint on most subjects in the zeitgeist offering a wider perspective. this was quite interesting as much additional information about matters was aired, making a listener who is willing to be open minded broaden their knowledge, i found it healthy. however they were removed and replaced with someone less smarter and who towed the abc group think and now counter point is somewhat a pale imitation of the original.
so on the abc current affairs lets take a look at, mmm, okay media watch, been on the airwaves since 1989 hosted by 8 different personalities all from the left. so very little of the content actually focuses on anything that upsets or is controversial about anything to close to home. multiply this with various other shows all with a left agenda and what you have is propaganda. 
now, many people will attack the so called right wing murdoch media sometimes rightly so. they will say they control all opinion without realising the murdoch media actually employs far more lefties than the left wing media employs right wing journalists, and let's face it, the right wing is no longer the right wing of the old skool conservatives, they pretty much have the same agenda as the left, globalist, so we are all fucked either way as far as i am concerned. one side will tax you and burn the cash on building bigger government the other side will use the logical idea that by helping business grow they help everyone else, hence their alignment with big business often perceived as greedy but the horrible reality is the left do the same thing in a way, only they don't offer the incentive for business to expand, in fact why would a company start in australia if they are taxed heavily and there's heaps of red tape, when they can do the same thing some where else. therefore i find the whole argument pointless.
the other point about the press is murdoch is private, he can print what he likes. the abc is paid and funded by all australians so i don't think it's to much to ask for balance and fairness from them specifically.
take the broom through the abc, get rid of the wankers from the very unfunny chaser team, who are not funny and selectively offensive, get rid of barry cassidy host of insiders who should declare he's in the labour movement every time he makes a political statement, get rid of david marr who is a very poor excuse for an intellectual, jesus is that the best we can do? get rid of the media watch hosts and lets have an anarchists perspective, get rid of the drum and lets have a show where people actually disagree with one another, get rid of q and a which is basically a stacked deck where tony jones only interrupts the libertarians who are arguing well against whatever some stupid politically correct zombie has said. 
the comedy shows are basically politically correct diatribes and bland as fucking you can get, entertainment is shallow and fickle, adam hills your the beige of comedy, become edgy and dangerous instead of whining on about edgy and dangerous comedians like joan rivers whom you just don't get. comedy should be provocative and clever not fucking scatological inane comments. 
the abc is crap. it's lost whatever kudos it had, i don't care about the mistaken reportage over the navy, i just think they produce rubbish when it comes to political shows. 
why are people so resistant to change, why are the left so frightened of allowing the other side to have a say or platform? 
basically because the whole planet is divided now.
as william burroughs said, countries as we know them will cease to exist, the only thing that defines us will be ideologies. a communist in luton will be affiliated with a communist group in prague, a nazi in lima will be affiliated with a group in iceland and an anarchist in new deli will be affiliated to a group of individuals from where ever. these are the new nations, it's already happened and the left in their ignorance just re-enforce their own agenda.
for them there has to be an enemy, same with the greens, they need an enemy otherwise their argument is over. 
the liberal party in australia may not be perfect but they offer the individual far more in the way of liberty than the other main parties, the problem is you would never hear about that if you only read left wing media. 
i always hear both sides and make my own mind up. i'm no fucking clone, i think independently, i'm no sheep and i never will be, if you don't like it to bad sister. i'm never going to be a slave to ideology. people should be free to think what they wish to think, and as voltaire stated so eloquently, 'i disapprove of what you say but i defend your right to say it.'
actually he didn't say that at all, he said, 'think for yourselves and allow others the privilege of doing the same.' 
so reader, don't immerse yourself in one side of a debate, go read the australian for a change if you start your day with the smh and vice versa, challenge yourself before you start bleating your way into the slaughterhouse, have a wide range of views available along with an open mind, there lies the contradiction of captain mission. he smokes weed, he's well read and travelled, dead man is his fave film, he's sort of arty, he is a social worker, he makes songs about esoteric stuff and writes weird sci fi, yet he's not a green socialist, how can it be?
i am not into the environment, i'm into ecology, i'm not into the control or power games humanity plays, it's boring shit that belongs in history, we have to learn from the patterns of the past as they repeat themselves, i'm into spirit. love thy neighbour, love your enemy, all i see from the left wing is hate. yet some of these people constantly talk in spiritual terms, i don't align myself to it, where's the beauty, where's the truth? it ain't in the left any more than the right but there's no need to be hypocritical about it because its in the heart sister, not the head.