By Kim on August 11, 2010
Continuing an irregular series commenting on how the election looks to commercial tv viewers: commercial free to air is the biggest single source of information for voters. There mustn’t be any Oakes/Latho self-referential “news” tonight, because wild weather and record [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, Media | Tagged Andrew Robb, broadband, Channel Nine, commercial tv, costings, Federal Election 2010, Julia Gillard, Laurie Oakes, leak, mark latham, news, political communication, Tony Abbott, Treasury, Wayne Swan, welfare policy, welfare reform |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 5, 2010
Originally published at The Drumroll. I made some observations about Kevin Rudd’s return to the campaign foray in Crikey today, and in particular its implications in Queensland, but I wanted to add four points on today’s developments. (a) We may [...]
Posted in federal election 2010 | Tagged alp campaign, economic policy, Federal Election 2010, GFC, health policy, interview, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, kevin10, news, press conference, Tony Abbott |
By Kim on August 3, 2010
Continuing an irregular series commenting on how the election looks to commercial tv viewers: commercial free to air is the biggest single source of information for voters. “The new Julia changes her mind on debates, while the old Tony makes [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, Film, TV, Video etc, Media, Politics | Tagged Channel Nine, commercial tv, economic management, Federal Election 2010, Jenny Macklin, Media, news, no means no, parental leave, political communication, rape joke, real julia, samantha maiden, sexist gaffe, Tony Abbott |
By Kim on July 28, 2010
Continuing an irregular series commenting on how the election looks to commercial tv viewers: commercial free to air is the biggest single source of information for voters. The election’s still still back at number one on Channel Nine Brisbane, probably [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, Media | Tagged barrie cassidy, cabinet, Channel Nine, Federal Election 2010, Julia Gillard, Laurie Oakes, leaks, Media, news, press conference, the drum, tv news |
By Kim on July 26, 2010
Continuing an irregular series commenting on how the election looks to commercial tv viewers: commercial free to air is the biggest single source of information for voters. On Channel Nine in Brisbane tonight, the sole election story was the seventh [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, Film, TV, Video etc, Health, Parenting, Policy | Tagged abc news 24, Brisbane, Channel Nine, childcare, Federal Election 2010, health policy, Julia Gillard, leaders debate, news, political communication, the drum, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 22, 2010
There’s been some discussion on the ABC’s decision to introduce a 24 hour news channel on a related thread, and it deserves consideration in its own right. Mark Scott’s announcement was accompanied by the now ritualised shots across the bow [...]
Posted in Media | Tagged abc, Crikey, digital tv, future of journalism, Jason Wilson, margaret simons, mark scott, Media, New Matilda, news, news channel, News Limited, public broadcasting, Sky News, user generated content |
By crankynick on January 13, 2010
Margaret Simons has an interesting piece up at Crikey talking about some research on whether people will pay for online content, and the likely move of The Oz to a paywall system. It’s an interesting piece but she falls, like [...]
Posted in Media | Tagged Crikey, news, News Limited, newspapers, online journalism, online media |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 1, 2009
There’s an interesting take in Australian Policy Online from my QUT Creative Industries Faculty colleague, Terry Flew, on the whole question of business models for online news, which has had quite the airing of late. My own view is that [...]
Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Consumerism, Media, Politics, The Web | Tagged business models, celebrity news, Creative Industry Faculty, financial information, future of journalism, future of media, information, journalism, Media, news, online news, publishing, QUT, Rupert Murdoch, shaun carney, Terry Flew, Wall Street Journal, Wired |
By Mark Bahnisch on April 29, 2009
There’s some very good coverage in Crikey today of the dispute which led to the resignation of Sally Warhaft as editor of The Monthly. Jonathan Green traces the ins and outs of the argument – which came to a crux, [...]
Posted in Activism, Books, Writers & Writing, Media, Sociology | Tagged Crikey, Culture, editorial independence, editorial standards, Guy Rundle, Jonathan Green, Kevin Rudd, Media, media cultures, news, robert manne, Sally Warhaft, The Monthly |
By Kim on March 31, 2009
As I’ve been implying, coverage of the preliminaries of the G20 summit has been distorted through the lens of domestic politics – of the most trivial kind. ABC tv news, tonight, for instance, was obsessed by whether Kevin Rudd’s decision [...]
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So how about that media narrative now?
By Mark Bahnisch on June 16, 2010
Over the long weekend, I noted the frenzy The Australian was stirring up about the purported deadline on Rudd’s leadership, built on a foundation of a self-serving article from mining company director Keith De Lacy and quotes from NSW Right [...]
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