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While Ian Verrender is pondering how Aussie Banks can continue to satisfy the essential capitalist prerequisite of ever increasing profits so as to keep shareholders happy he happened to lapse into disclosing a commonsense truth that is rarely uttered in the public domain. The uproar from the community and from politicians about our banks has been [...]  So Facebook wants to extend its dominion over all things social on the net with its new messaging system. The term gmail killer has been floated around and gives some insight into the recent spat between Facebook and Google over contact sharing. The youtube vid is a bit lackluster but that could be deliberate since [...] Call me picky but Hartcher is guilty of some wild speculation here – China has learnt well from the blunders of Japan and America My waning interest in mainstream reporting notwithstanding I have noticed a few articles recently along the lines of the west is doomed, China and India (in particular) are going to swamp us [...] Rodney Tiffen writes in the SMH on the Murdoch press… In Australia, News Ltd titles account for about two-thirds of daily newspaper circulation, far higher than any proprietor enjoys in any other established democracy. Whatever the company’s virtues, such domination is not healthy for democracy or for the development of professional excellence and media diversity. Increasingly, [...] Laura Tingle’s article on the problem of News Corp for Gillard’s government in her Friday column of the AFR has provoked a fair bit of debate over at LP. At the heart of the problem lies two seriously conflicting notions. On one hand, the idea of any government “doing” anything about the so-called free press immediately [...] Look I was happy ignoring the Oz. Its blatant campaigning for a change of government that would be more aligned with the views of its owner, Rupert Murdoch, was just too obvious to take seriously but unfortunately a significant proportion of Australians actually think the agenda of the Oz is something other than neo-conservative right [...] Possum oh possum where have you been the last little while? I just love some of these lines… they will be ably assisted and their supporters commercially exploited, by the leadership and opinion section of The Australian – not to mention the curmudgeonly Lesser Scribes infesting the sewer end of the News Ltd tabloids and that [...] This is absurd. Frankly I am very curious to know who commissioned Parker and Partners to do this “research” and what was P&P’s methodology. However that pales into insignificance compared with outrageous idea that the opinions of a public relations firm with a portfolio of big business connections should be quoted as news by the Age. A [...] Rodney Tiffen writes on the last of three inquiries into the so-called Climategate emails however in his conclusion that the media created damage to popular support for action on carbon he fails to state the obvious question. Why? Why did the mainstream media give so much credence and coverage to what was transparently a sensationalist stunt [...] ABC management, driven mostly by former Liberal Party staffer and businessman Mark Scott seems hell bent on imposing a technocratic regime on the public broadcaster. In many ways this amounts to privatisation by stealth and Scott’s successes are many and far reaching. While management has been able to argue that most of its decisions are in [...] |
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