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James Der Derian who delivered a keynote address to the ANU conference War 2.0 raised the issue of the “speed of media transmission” as a key attribute of the new media and reporting on the war, a point emphasised by Kate Geraghty, a photojournalist, in her short presentation. Brigadier Brian Dawson talked about the new form [...]  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 [...] Ok let’s try this idea. You have a business, its core activity consists of people stringing a few words together based on information received. They, the stringers-of-words, do this stringing thing regularly and they also spend more than the average amount of time reading other stringers-of-words. Then there is a certain accumulated body of knowledge [...] No sooner is the LA Times talking up collusion in the US newspaper scene and we see the same sentiments expressed here in Oz. Fairfax probably has one of the better news site in Oz but who will pay for it? Especially when the ABC will probably be obliged to continue providing their content for [...] |
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