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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 [...] David Mann’s article identifies the poverty of thinking in Gillard’s recent announcement of refugees arriving by boat. He points out that the so-called regional framework is hollow rhetoric and the “new” policy is remarkable similar to Howard’s infamous Pacific solution. It is clear that Gillard’s policy is an appeal to voters worried about the prospect [...] 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 [...] Michelle Grattan in her analysis of Gillard’s lurch to the right has concluded that the left wing of the ALP is dead. Interestingly, Gillard has got away with her asylum backflip within Labor Party ranks. Partly, it is that she is new; also, the election is so close. But the quietness shows as well that the [...] Like a few people I am rather cynical about the role of the mainstream media (msm). In part this cynicism arises from working in media for a while, in part it is reinforced by the fact that the msm has become a fully integrated component of the capitalist system and as such is unable to [...] Despite reports that oil continues to leak into the gulf at an alarming rate the continuing pressure on the stock of BP and the need for other oil companies to stay afloat has forced one man, a judge in the US, to overturn the Obama moratorium on new oil wells in the Gulf. Oil companies [...] |
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