A long way from poetry…
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The Goanna had a crack at Mark Scott’s poetry which I thought is a trifle unfair. Unfair to poetry that is. Does the goanna, a metaphorical name complete with illusions of tough sun-leathered skin and reptilian cunning, secretly harbour some poetic sympathies? Could it be envy that speaks when the goanna observes - Poetry, of course, [...] 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 [...] This is tech humour, it mightn’t appeal to many but I’ve lifted a few gems to lighten the mood a little presidenteloco writes Dear Mr Murdoch If you don’t want to be hyperlinked to, you might consider not putting your content on the worldwide web. interkin3tic says: You have to look at it from his perspective. Basically his [...] What is going on here? Kev pops over to the US to report to his real bosses? Has a cup of tea with Barack and an intimate dinner with Rupert? No comment says the PM. So did they talk about football perhaps, maybe they compared family fotos or had a deep and meaningful discussion about [...] 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 [...] 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? But [...] My first temptation is to delete the BBC classification of Business in the headline since this is much more than a business matter but I’ll just make this observation instead. Murdoch jnr sums up his address with these lines – “for a better society…the only reliable, durable and perpetual guarantor of independence is profit” – [...] Apparently “what’s required for serious — which is to say expensive-to-produce — journalism to survive is that all the quality English-language papers and news sites agree to charge for Web access and then mercilessly sue anyone who makes more than fair use of their work without paying a fee.” That’s according to the Tim Rutten on [...] |
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