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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 Mark Bahnisch on January 15, 2010
When the ABC’s Drum was launched, Margaret Simons cited a piece by Media Watch host Jonathan Holmes on internal discussions of ABC journos writing opinion pieces, which I referred to in this post: Simons then looks at the cult(ure) of [...]
Posted in Media, The Web | Tagged abc, analysis, Andrew Elder, Annabel Crabb, Chris Uhlmann, commentariat, Crikey, future of journalism, Jonathan Green, jonathan holmes, journalism, Leigh Sales, margaret simons, Mark Colvin, mark scott, Matthew Brissenden, media practice, media watch, News Limited, online opinion, public broadcasting, punditariat, social media, The Australian, the drum, Tony Eastley, twitter, web 2.0 |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 14, 2010
Possum has a cracker of a post up on Andrew Bolt’s infamous climate change graphs. Go read, as they say. He also pings the blurring of the opinion/analysis distinction at the ABC, where Bolt seems to wear two hats – [...]
Posted in Climate change, Media, Politics, Science | Tagged abc, analysis, andrew bolt, Climate change, climate science, graphs, Insiders, jonathan holmes, journalism, Media, opinion, public broadcasting, statistics |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 15, 2009
ABC Managing Director Mark Scott has created quite the stir with his A. N. Smith Memorial Lecture in Melbourne last night. Scott took a pot shot at Rupert Murdoch, characterising him as a “frantic emperor”. Decline and fall of old [...]
Posted in Consumerism, Markets, Media, Politics, The Web | Tagged abc, content, future of journalism, future of media, margaret simons, mark scott, Markets, Media, new media, News Limited, online media, public broadcasting, Rupert Murdoch, social media, web |
By Kim on July 13, 2009
As observed here: Only 10 songs on the hottest 100 list were made by a band who had any women in it, ever (if we include Massive Attack, who, technically, only ever had female guest vocalists); the highest of these [...]
Posted in Culture, Masculinity, Media, Music, Sociology, Women | Tagged abc, cultural studies, female artists, gender, hottest 100, JJJ, Music, popular music, public broadcasting, radio, rock, Sociology, Women |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 25, 2009
As a bit of a sequel to Helen’s post on Radio National’s travails, I wanted to draw attention to the public consultation initiated by DBCDE on the government’s inquiry into the future of the ABC and SBS. For those who [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Culture, Media, Sociology, The Web | Tagged abc, ARC, Axel bruns, broadcasting, citizen journalism, citizenship, creative industries, creativity, cultural policy, DBCDE, future of abc, future of sbs, innovation, internet, Jason Wilson, media policy, public broadcasting, QUT, research, review, SBS, social innovation, social media, Sociology, stephen conroy, Stuart Cunningham, Terry Flew, universality, user generated content, web, YouDecide2007 |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 17, 2008
It’s a bit of a hard ask to keep up with all the policy reviews the Rudd government has initiated. And they appear to be in the habit of releasing the results or closing deadlines for submissions well into the [...]
Posted in Culture, Film, TV, Video etc, Policy | Tagged abc, creative industries, digital futures, inquiry, public broadcasting, QUT, review, Rudd government, SBS, stephen conroy, submissions, Terry Flew, user generated content |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 20, 2008
I think it was klaus k who once suggested on this blog that we should completely eschew the word “postmodernism”, so vacuous and meaningless has it become. That seems a proposal worth reviving when you read an astonishing take on [...]
Posted in Culture, Film, TV, Video etc, Politics | Tagged abc, Culture Wars, digital futures, funding, new media, News Limited columnists, postmodernism, public broadcasting, Radio National, Religion Report, Stephen Crittenden |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 21, 2008
There’s been a fair bit of discussion around here from time to time about the Rudd government’s proposals for ensuring merit based appointments to the boards of ABC and SBS, a matter of quite a deal of interest because of [...]
Posted in Film, TV, Video etc, Media, Politics | Tagged abc, abc board, alan fels, board appointments, Culture Wars, david gonski, Janet Albrechtsen, keith windschuttle, leneen forde, public broadcasting, ric smith, ron brunton, Rudd government, SBS, sbs board, selection panel, stephen conroy, Terry Moran |
The ABC of Drumming up some online opinion analysis
By Mark Bahnisch on January 15, 2010
When the ABC’s Drum was launched, Margaret Simons cited a piece by Media Watch host Jonathan Holmes on internal discussions of ABC journos writing opinion pieces, which I referred to in this post: Simons then looks at the cult(ure) of [...]
Posted in Media, The Web | Tagged abc, analysis, Andrew Elder, Annabel Crabb, Chris Uhlmann, commentariat, Crikey, future of journalism, Jonathan Green, jonathan holmes, journalism, Leigh Sales, margaret simons, Mark Colvin, mark scott, Matthew Brissenden, media practice, media watch, News Limited, online opinion, public broadcasting, punditariat, social media, The Australian, the drum, Tony Eastley, twitter, web 2.0 | 27 Responses