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Peter Costello please stay in Politics, you have such an honest and unbiased view of the world and it is very selfish of you to deprive the wider community of your obvious talents. Of course the ABC is a warren of left wing bunnies which is why your former colleague and culture warrior Little Johnny [...]  Well you can read Kate Lundy’s blog entry over here and it looks pretty much like the speech she gave at Glamwiki today where amongst other things, she argued the case for putting Australia’s cultural assets freely online. However her speech deserves a little analysis and context. A key factor is the government’s current commitment to [...] Let that be a lesson to others,REFER UPWARDS or DIE! By the way, Amanda isn’t sacked from the ABC…she is merely removed as Head of Comedy. Fortunately the editorial policy processes are still intact which probably means that the Chaser team won’t be presenting the ABC news any time soon. 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 [...] ABC management has been coping a bit of flak recently what with the fracas at Radio National and then there’s Roy and HG leaving for greener pastures. Outsourcing of TV production continues unabated and the much hyped breakfast TV news service is struggling to get an audience. Undeterred, Mr Scott and his loyal circle of [...] According to management (who tells it as it is without a word of a lie) the following changes are necessary to add content to ABC Online within the draconian budget limitations imposed by the miserable federal government. Thanks to Peter Pockley for the information. Further to Glenys Stradijot’s message of earlier today, here are As the casualty list grows following yesterday’s Fairfax announcement, you get the feeling that the rest of the local media heavy weights are gathering tips for their own “business improvement initiative” . It seems we live in an age of management speak, where cost saving is used to describe sacking people and going forward, a [...] Sunday’s newspaper reading over breakfast was meant to be a civilising moment, a chance to catch up on the latest cultural offerings and partake in some incisive analysis of the latest news. Sadly reading today’s news is a risky exercise, unless of course you happen to think as Murdoch does that the most important thing [...] In a conversation today the subject of the future of journalism came up. A respected journalist with the ABC was speculating about the impact of a continuous news cycle on journalistic standards. It wasn’t particularly positive. Quality journalism is a labour intensive trade. Even writing a half decent blog is time consuming. The problem is that [...] Mark Scott probably gets it, if he doesn’t he isn’t half as smart as he needs to be, and the NY Times certainly writes about it. The import of this development is that the changes in reporting will weaken the role of the journalist in shaping public opinion. This has at least two sides, one [...] |
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