ABC - Good News Week

There has been some good news this week - and it's only Tuesday ;-)

Andrew Bolt has left the building and won't be featuring on Insiders again! Rejoice people - I have promised myself a nice bottle of red in celebration. There is talk of him starting his own talk show on Channel Ten - an Australian version of Fox News. Good on him - I hope it becomes the *go-to* place for all the RWA's and associated deniers, charlatans and fellow travellers. I can just see Andrew Bolt and Alan Jones interviewing a panel comprising Tony Abbott, Nick Minchin, Eric Abetz and Cory Bernardi about Climate Change. Now that would be worth watching.

And if Channel 10 does go down this path then its news and information content will be on a par with the test pattern - so there is no likelihood that any thinkers will watch it.

And the ABC's QandA was a huge success on Monday evening - mainly because it didn't offer up the usual right wing dingbat views that are pushed so hard by the Murdoch press. It took a much more moderate approach and the show was all the better for it. The panel was high quality and their discussion and engagement reflected that.

Monday's QandA demonstrated that Australian's will respond to a quality panel. Robert Manne and Louise Adler and Kevin Rudd were outstanding panel members - able to argue coherently about the things they believe in. I think many Australian's might prefer that Kevin was back in the top job after his performance. Julia is probably rushing about counting numbers today.

If you keep this up Mark Scott you may even win back the trust of thinking Australian's.