The ABC has always received its share of brickbats, much of it directed at its unflinching and often award-winning current affairs programs. Of course, the national public broadcaster is more than that — it's also Bananas, Costa, Bluey, the Hottest 100, quizzing hard, cricket in summer, singing songs to lyrics from car manuals, teens and elders jumbled together, original Australian sitcoms and drama, local radio, emergency broadcasting and more.
In my more than three decades of journalism at the ABC there have been moments that have demanded a single-minded focus — reporting rampant bushfires at home, uprisings and disasters abroad, and at Ground Zero in New York on 9/11.
