‘A potpourri of ideas’: Crikey readers weigh in on Guy Rundle’s pitch to reform the ABC

On where to start rebuilding the ABC:

Peter Blackwell writes: I enjoy Guy Rundle’s columns and appreciate the challenges he frequently dispenses, but I can make neither head nor tail of his potpourri of ideas to “improve” Radio National.

I have been devoted to RN for longer than Phillip Adams ran Late Night Live. I have despaired of the pairing of “radical” content from Offspring and then Life Matters, to become a relatively insipid self-help and talk-fest program. Great programs like Asia Pacific have vanished, as RN was told by an increasingly conservative board to serve a lower common denominator audience and cease to challenge the nation.