How the ABC pushes the NBN, another taxpayer-funded monster Telecom consultant Kevin Morgan is not the first to fact-check Nick Ross, the ABC's in-house propagandist of the Gillard Government's NBN: Under the heading "politics" in his January 23 blog on the ABC technology website, Ross makes no bones about his objective: "With it being election year, there is a great deal to be done in informing the public about the current NBN policy and the consequences of ditching it in favour of a Coalition alternative." There we have it, an ABC employee sees absolutely nothing wrong in using the ABC website to sell government policy at the expense of the Coalition objectivity. And factual accuracy can go begging given Ross's mission. Read it all and marvel. How utterly ironic. Communications Minister Steve Conroy, who has proposed tough new controls on journalists and bloggers, punished media critics , had an inquiry set loose against conservatives and sceptics and agitated against Channel 10 showing my program has this morning complained on the ABC that the ABC has disciplined Ross. You'd laugh if you weren't throwing up at such hypocrisy. If Conroy thinks Ross should be free to propagandise to the Coalition's advantage - and on the public's dime - he should be just as adamant that the rest of us be free to speak our minds, too. Nick Ross denies: