Stop gloating, lefties? #notw
(We all know only lefties gloat. Brendan O’Neill told us.) So, Margaret Simons, writing in today’s Crikey, probably rightly, suggests that the latest revelations in the #notw phone hacking saga imply that to Rupert’s crown, no woman or man of [...]
End days for dead paper and “Murdochracy”?
The intensity may have reduced since James and Rupert Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks appeared before the UK Parliament’s Culture, Media and Sport Committee, but the crisis besetting News International is still burbling along in the background, bunted doggedly onwards from [...]
Tipping points, politics, NotW and the longer view
As the Murdochs and Rebekah Brooks prepare to appear before the House of Commons, we may have reached a tipping point where the noise machine’s days are numbered.
Abbott and Murdoch
The News Limited papers have been pounding Stephen Conroy for having met Kerry Stokes while holidaying in Colorado, prior to the Rudd government’s hand out to free to air tv stations. [For the record, Conroy denies the two events are [...]
The Guardian does its paywall math
On the recent thread about the ABC’s intention to offer a 24 hour news channel, commenter SCPritch linked, with appropriate approbation, to the text of a lecture by the editor of The Guardian, Alan Rusbridger. Rusbridger’s topic was “Does Journalism [...]
The future of the ABC and of journalism
I made some observations a little while ago about Mark Scott’s A. N. Smith memorial lecture, principally concerned with his intervention in the debate about News Limited’s paywall strategy. Much of what Scott said has been discussed in a frame [...]
Murdoch on how we're all thieves now
Rupert Murdoch on Sky News: Make of it what you will. It seems pretty incoherent to me. I think Cory Doctorow’s pretty much right – these musings are fantasies, and his editors are going to have a horrible time trying [...]
Of media empires and public broadcasters
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 [...]
Tabloid environmentalism
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What if the paywall works?
At New Matilda, Jason Wilson takes on the prevailing wisdom about the News Limited paywall plans: The notion that News Corp’s proposed paywall “won’t work” is in danger of becoming common sense. The problem with this is that, on the [...]
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