ABC redundant as bloggers do their job

Matt Ridley makes clear in his piece in The Spectator that it was bloggers, not decorated, well-salaried journalists who broke the IPCC Climategate scandal.

Journalists are wont to moan that the slow death of newspapers will mean a disastrous loss of investigative reporting. The web is all very well, they say, but who will pay for the tenacious sniffing newshounds to flush out the real story? ‘Climategate’ proves the opposite to be true. It was amateur bloggers who scented the exaggerations, distortions and corruptions in the climate establishment; whereas newspaper reporters, even after the scandal broke, played poodle to their sources.

That's right- and the ABC, even after the scandal started gaining traction, gave very little coverage to Climategate. Taxpayer-funded Jon Faine refused to report it because he didn't think it was important.

This is even more of a reason to remove public funding from the ABC. Why should we the public continue to fund a supposed news organisation that refuses to report, or barely reports, one of the largest scientific frauds and swindles in history.

The internet- especially blogs, is starting a Gutenburgian revolution and putting journalism where it should be- in the hands of the people.

For too long we have ceded our responsibility of holding governments and institutions to account to large institutions such as the ABC, CNN, BBC etc. Thanks to the internet these gatekeepers are losing credibility day-by-day. The internet now allows an individual, like Dave Holland to bypass the gatekeepers, become his own journalist and hold the government to account.

Individuals are now waking up and taking responsibility for holding their governments and institutions to account in the spirit of 1774.

The people, not the ABC or The Age; decided they were sick of the rampant corruption, exhaggerations, distortions, lies, hyperbole and bullshit regarding "climate change" (formerly "global warming") and decided to investigate for themselves.

Only when bloggers and the online community blew the whistle on Climategate did the mainstream media belatedly and reluctantly report the facts. Like a dog slinking around with its tail between its legs- knowing full well that it has been sprung and found wanting.

The main question is that, if the public are ivestigating the facts and holding governments to account, WHAT the HELL do we NEED the ABC FOR?!?