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Coined Planet Janet by Guy Rundle over at Crikey, Ms Albrechtsen is, as we all know, also a board member of the ABC. A self declared right wing idealogue posing as journalist and exercising the power to influence bequeathed to her by little Johnny, Janet, unlike the stereotypical disgruntled leftie journo, Margot Saville, can crack [...]  Well they made my breakfast with this rather unfortunate little headline in my inbox Truthdig – Cartoons – American Pi. Mark Scott, former newspaper editorial director at Fairfax considers the Oz and News Ltd to be a protected species in the landscape of crumbling media empires. In his Annual Media Studies lecture at La Trobe university Mark describes the media conglomerates of the last century as “remarkably lucrative oligopolies — quite literally licences to print [...] Says “the Government should instead buy Telstra, break it up and sell off the pieces” The monopoly that is Telstra was useful as a government instrument but should never have been sold to the private sector as a single integrated unit. Simply put it was part of the neocon mantra that all government business should be [...] Kev and his comrades have dropped their original National Broadband Network plan and have instead initiated a national infrastructure project which they claim will deliver fibre to the home. Key points that have emerged is that the government intends to retain a majority stake in the corporation for at least five years after which it [...] Mr Conroy’s announcement of merit based appointments to the boards of ABC and SBS is welcome, unless of course you can imagine that any government would make such appointments and admit that the nominees didn’t really merit their positions. However what is really shocking is that the appointments to the ABC board are not from [...] |
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