Reference : - Caustic Sky presenter, Chris Kenny , displays a growing contempt for the ABC .

 Reference : -  Chris Kenny rarely mentions the ABC per se .  However he often does refer to an entity called  "the taxpayer funded ABC " . 

Dear Chris , 

                      Without doubt , as you regularly remind us , the ABC is partly taxpayer funded .  It must be tough working for the Murdoch media empire , which has to stand on it's own two feet without the taxpayer shelling out to cover some overheads . 

Sure , there was that 50 million  quid ( of taxpayer's money  ) that Mr Murdoch received to discourage him from closing down more than 100 local newspapers .  But he closed them down anyway , so obviously he would have given that money back .

Then there was the 40 million quid that the government gave Sky News to subsidise their TV subscription service .  But at the same time the government cut the budget of the  ABC by another 84 million , so there was a net gain for the taxpayer . 

Ken junior reminded me that a few years back the Australian Tax Office gave Mr Murdoch an 880 million quid tax refund which related to an accounting technicality with a shell company in Bermuda .   Of course , that hardly counts as government funding does it ?   If the tax office can't afford better lawyers than Mr Murdoch , whose fault is that ? 

Anyway , you needn't fear that your nemesis at the ABC , Paul Barry , will start calling Sky News " the taxpayer funded Sky News ".  It just doesn't roll of the tongue easily , does it ? 

Your comrade, Ken .