Comments by "Philip Rayment" (@PJRayment) on "Olympian slammed ABC's Q+A over lack of 'biological' females in trans athlete episode" video.

  1.  @bobhawke7373  "The 2021 report revealed that the ABC was the most accessed news brand in Australia,..." Given that they have more outlets that anyone else, that doesn't mean much. In Melbourne, for example, as well as their television channels and their online presence, they have at least four radio stations that I can think of off the top of my head. "Sky News came well down the field in eighth position, with just 10 per cent of the audience, a drop of two percentage points from the previous year." And in the 2022 report, they are up two percentage points from 2021, back to 12% and seventh position. And of course it's not a fair comparison, with Sky not being free to air in the cities.
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  2. "But you don’t hear them talk about themselves at all." To be fair, they do occasionally.
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  3.  @bobhawke7373  "Lower than SBS😂😂😂No one in the regions watches SBS. So that evens that out." No it doesn't. They are lower than SBS in total, which is, again, what you'd expect from Sky not being free in the cities. Your argument only makes sense if they are lower than SBS is in the regions, but you're actually implying that SBS is lower in the regions. Other aspect of the report are questionable too. For example, the ABC is shown as having a count(?) of 421, but that's an aggregate of multiple radio and television stations across the country, whereas the Herald Sun is at 182, even though that's one single newspaper in Victoria only. But then one of the contributors used to be a Director of News at the ABC, another was with the BBC news, and a third is still with SBS news. Others are connected to the apparently-left-wing Australia Institute. I only had a superficial look, but didn't spot any obviously-conservative people there.
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  4. "The 2021 report revealed that the ABC was the most accessed news brand in Australia,..." Given that they have more outlets that anyone else, that doesn't mean much. In Melbourne, for example, as well as their television channels and their online presence, they have at least four radio stations that I can think of off the top of my head. "Sky News came well down the field in eighth position, with just 10 per cent of the audience, a drop of two percentage points from the previous year." And in the 2022 report, they are up two percentage points from 2021, back to 12% and seventh position. And of course it's not a fair comparison, with Sky not being free to air in the cities.
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