ABC director defends the indefensible

When directors of taxpayer-funded boards start defending the indefensible you know there’s a serious problem.

In this case, the problem is deep seated, intractable and certainly real.

The organisation is the ABC and the problem is bias.  

This week, Melbourne based ABC board member, multi-millionaire Joseph Gersh, made a clumsy, embarrassing and entirely inappropriate entry into the debate about bias in ABC broadcast and online content.

Questions of on-air content and employee performance are not for directors to discuss in public.   These are matters for the ABC managing director and their direct reports to manage and defend as they see fit.

Given the chaotic and unaccountable nature of ABC management, these distinctions…