Oh what a feeling! Planet Janet has announced her departure from the board of the ABC and I would personally like congratulate her on her worthy contributions and selfless devotion to the difficult task of ridding the ABC of
the progressive predilection for emotion over reason and stealth over honesty.
Sure it was difficult for the only woman on the board to make her demure little voice heard above the brutish din of male blokeyness but she discharged her duties with a certain panache and single mindedness which has prompted certain emotional and stealthy progressives to label her as the Planet. As in Planet Janet, the one and only. Terribly unkind since just a quick look at her recent blog entries reveals how wide of the mark her critics are.
Only last week Janet alerted us to the Hoax of the Century (that’s the threat of rising sea levels due to global warming), then the week before she exposed the Copehagen Plot to impose a new world order by stealth under the guise of fighting climate change. Fascinating reading. Clearly Janet is committed to exposing the truth and questioning the dominant orthodoxy even if she bases her latest border protection argument on a highly questionable newspoll result. Still it’s useful to have my thoughts on the plight of refugees arriving by leaky boats framed by Janet’s nationalistic concern for border security.
Which touches on my greatest reservation with Janet for it seems that all of the truth in Janet’s world is conveniently located in places normally associated with the right wing big end of town. She likes to refer to the Australian people but it’s very hard to see her connection with the ordinary person in the street when she moves in such illustrious company.
So sorry to see you go Janet, but I wonder, does this mean that your picture will no longer adorn the office wall of the ABC’s 730 Report bureau in Parliament House?
Albrechtsen ABC board retires.
