Broadcasting: the final frontier. These are the voyages of Michelle Guthrie. Her five-year contract: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new media and new audiences, to boldly go where no ABC MD has gone before… That’s the theory, anyway.

In practice, the ABC appears to be churning out the same old left-wing groupthink it’s been bombarding up with for most of the past half-century — left wing groupthink and, as we’re in the digital age, complete crap.