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Scott via Simons – Crikey

Margaret is over-hyping the ABC’s role in innovation and experimentation with the web, a role the ABC claims but cannot truly deliver for the simple reason that the ABC must always strike a balance in favour of protecting its existing audience. Playschool still runs at 3pm, the evening news still comes on the TV @ [...]

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Mark Scott on Journalism

Mark Scott delivered a blunt assessment on the future landscape for traditional media in his A.N. Smith Memorial lecture at Melbourne University. He acknowledged that all the rules have changed and those media players that survive will be the ones that accept and embrace the challenges posed by the new circumstances.

In a speech that portrayed [...]

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James Murdoch out to ‘destroy the BBC’, says ABC head | Media | guardian.co.uk

Businessman and Australian Public Broadcaster CEO Mark Scott has delivered on his promise to give Rupert Jnr a stern talking to in his Australia House speech to the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association.

Scott suggested that Murdoch's antipathy to the BBC resembled the attitude of his grandfather, Sir Keith Murdoch, an Australian press baron who objected to plans [...]

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Scott enters fray over Murdoch criticism | The Australian

Oh how absolutely sporting of the good people at The Oz to let us all know that Mark Scott, businessman and CEO of ABC Inc is going give their boss, Rupert Jnr a jolly good tongue-lashing when he speaks in London. Very Respectful…I wonder if the planet (janet) had anything to do with it?

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Everyone’s ABC? Only if you lean left | theage.com.au

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 [...]

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