About your "balanced" ABC, Mr Scott... ABC managing director Mark Scott says it doesn't matter that every main current affairs show on the ABC is headed by people of the Left. It wouldn't stop them being balanced, he claims. Here is the abc.net.au's menu of analysis today - every political piece a defence of Julia Gillard or attack on her critics: Over at The Drum, only a little more "balance" from political commentators entirely of the Left (with the possible exception of Griffiths):