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Farewell and hello to the ABC.(Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
ABOUT THE SAME TIME I decided to award myself a year's leave from watching ABC television, Wolfgang Kasper, the distinguished economist, decided to give up watching SBS forever. There was no collusion between us. We learned of each other's abstentions shortly before Lent this year. I was then about to revisit my public broadcaster of choice.
I had been drawn to SBS in its early days by its then unique displays of bare breasts in subtitled movies. I had clicked on from time to time for movies without bare breasts but had gradually drifted away (apart from drop-ins for World Cup soccer), for no particular reason. You can't watch everything. Making any point of my ...
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