All media should be held to a high standard. Lies don't become any less damaging to public consciousness if they're propagated by a private company.
I hope you apply that same attitude to politicians and are appalled by their attempts to avoid any scrutiny regarding corruption.
An owner of a media outlet is able to have his say, & its naive to believe those who choose to take the ABC are any less able to recognise spin when its laid on - we all know there are many devotees of a particular paper, radio station or newspaper. In my experience such devotees are less critical of issues being discussed.'Hear what they want to hear'.
See: https://www.abc.net.au/news/corrections/