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Oct. 17th, 2006 12:51 pmSo, the Right-wing-stacked board of the ABC has forced the creation of a new managerial position in the ABC: a director of editorial policies.
The function of this position is to monitor the ABC and everything it does for signs of bias — presumably for signs of bias against the government, since that is what the government and the apparatchiks it has stacked the board with have been complaining about.
So. There is now a senior ABC official whose job it is to monitor and correct the politics of the ABC, and ensure that the ABC's ideology is not offensive to the government.
Well, this position is not a new one, and as such it already has a well-established title:
Commissar.
Good luck looking for a Night Watch Commissar for the Commercial networks, monitoring and correcting their right-wing bias, to match the ABC's new Day Watch Commissar.
Have a nice day, Товарищ.
The function of this position is to monitor the ABC and everything it does for signs of bias — presumably for signs of bias against the government, since that is what the government and the apparatchiks it has stacked the board with have been complaining about.
So. There is now a senior ABC official whose job it is to monitor and correct the politics of the ABC, and ensure that the ABC's ideology is not offensive to the government.
Well, this position is not a new one, and as such it already has a well-established title:
Commissar.
Good luck looking for a Night Watch Commissar for the Commercial networks, monitoring and correcting their right-wing bias, to match the ABC's new Day Watch Commissar.
Have a nice day, Товарищ.