Media Ownership Laws
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75% rule is gone. This is (apparently) why there was WIN, Prime etc in regional locations
The removal of "two-from-three" rule — owning any two of TV, print and radio was OK, owning all three was not — is the one that puts everybody into play
http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-...mergers-who-will-buy-what/8949000?pfmredir=sm
Xenophon said he wouldn't agree if that one nation demand was included, so it seems that part will be introduced later in the year.
Pauline Hanson's One Nation announced last month that it too had done a deal with the government in exchange for its support.
The One Nation proposal focuses on the two public broadcasters, the ABC and SBS. It would change the ABC's charter to include the requirement it be "fair" and "balanced", on top of the existing requirement to be "impartial" and "accurate".
The ABC and SBS would be forced to disclose the salaries of its highest-paid staff who earned more than $200,000 a year. There would also be an inquiry to determine whether the public broadcasters were competing too aggressively with commercial media outlets.
But this part of the package remains uncertain. The Greens attempted to force the One Nation amendment into the main legislation but their move failed.
Nick Xenophon has previously said he would not support the bill if the One Nation amendments were included.
The removal of "two-from-three" rule — owning any two of TV, print and radio was OK, owning all three was not — is the one that puts everybody into play
http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-...mergers-who-will-buy-what/8949000?pfmredir=sm
Xenophon said he wouldn't agree if that one nation demand was included, so it seems that part will be introduced later in the year.
Pauline Hanson's One Nation announced last month that it too had done a deal with the government in exchange for its support.
The One Nation proposal focuses on the two public broadcasters, the ABC and SBS. It would change the ABC's charter to include the requirement it be "fair" and "balanced", on top of the existing requirement to be "impartial" and "accurate".
The ABC and SBS would be forced to disclose the salaries of its highest-paid staff who earned more than $200,000 a year. There would also be an inquiry to determine whether the public broadcasters were competing too aggressively with commercial media outlets.
But this part of the package remains uncertain. The Greens attempted to force the One Nation amendment into the main legislation but their move failed.
Nick Xenophon has previously said he would not support the bill if the One Nation amendments were included.
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"Competing too aggressively".
So she wants them to use Fox News' tagline in their charter.
What goes through their heads?
"Our base will love that!"
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So she wants them to use Fox News' tagline in their charter.
What goes through their heads?
"Our base will love that!"
On iPhone using BigFooty.com mobile app
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That must be purely accidental on her part.
She wants the ABC to be fair and balanced.
She wants s.18 (fair and balanced) of the RDA removed.
She is a dumb redneck with nothing but stupid ideas.
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Another good article re changes in media laws (Written by Bruce Guthrie co-founder and editorial director of The New Daily. He is a former editor-in-chief of The Age and the Herald Sun)
Having removed pretty much all the rules for existing players, the government then put absurd limits and exclusions on the meagre funds made available to small publishers through its so-called Regional and Small Publishers Innovation Fund –– $60 million over three years, which is only twice what the government recently gifted Rupert’s Fox Sports.
The fund doesn’t recognise this sad reality because it’s not supposed to – it gives money to the government’s mates in the bush and excludes its perceived enemies. Which apparently includes The New Daily.
We have been expressly excluded from accessing the fund because, well, we don’t actually know.
Neither does the opposition, who rightly opposed the changes and, like us, were left to ponder the mysteries of who’s in and who’s out in Australian media these days.
“Why have innovative publishers like The Guardian, Buzzfeed and The New Daily been cut out of the deal?” asked Shadow Communications Minister Michelle Rowland, just hours after Senator Xenophon breathlessly announced he’d struck a deal with the government. It was a fair question.
After all, those three sites alone have probably hired more journalists in the past five years than Fairfax or News who have been busy sacking them at every turn. (The New Daily now employs more than 20 journalists directly and a host more indirectly.)
Having removed pretty much all the rules for existing players, the government then put absurd limits and exclusions on the meagre funds made available to small publishers through its so-called Regional and Small Publishers Innovation Fund –– $60 million over three years, which is only twice what the government recently gifted Rupert’s Fox Sports.
The fund doesn’t recognise this sad reality because it’s not supposed to – it gives money to the government’s mates in the bush and excludes its perceived enemies. Which apparently includes The New Daily.
We have been expressly excluded from accessing the fund because, well, we don’t actually know.
Neither does the opposition, who rightly opposed the changes and, like us, were left to ponder the mysteries of who’s in and who’s out in Australian media these days.
“Why have innovative publishers like The Guardian, Buzzfeed and The New Daily been cut out of the deal?” asked Shadow Communications Minister Michelle Rowland, just hours after Senator Xenophon breathlessly announced he’d struck a deal with the government. It was a fair question.
After all, those three sites alone have probably hired more journalists in the past five years than Fairfax or News who have been busy sacking them at every turn. (The New Daily now employs more than 20 journalists directly and a host more indirectly.)
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Voters went with the lesser offer from CBS lol
Expect a tsunami of petulance from here on in from the usual w***ers
Expect a tsunami of petulance from here on in from the usual w***ers
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First, the Murdochs rags will tell them how a billionaire has been deprived and that they should be angry about it.
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They need them to be activist to make sure Barnaby doesn't get booted out.
It will be confusing for them, no doubt.
Then again, hypocrisy is one of their strong suits.
Upgrayedd
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Bankrupt 10 to get the laws passed. Then they get under cut and have it bought out of them.
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regardless of the diminishing role TV plays in the media, it is important to maintain a healthy spectrum of ownership
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The alt right have picked up this issue like someone walking up to you with a foo fighters album and asking you to check out this new band.
A couple of things. They think concentrated media manifests in 2 biases. Anti trump; which is stupid because trump is objectively an abomination as a president. And as per usual, they believe the bias effects racial issues. Whether it be immigration, crime, reverse discrimination... for the alt right, it all comes back to race.
The real issue with concentrated media ownership is economic. Media owned by corporations will ultimately reflect the financial interests of its owner. There are countless examples of this infects media. News becomes product placement. Rationalisation kills local media. Investigative journalism is ignored for scandal. Coverage of policy that threatens profits is framed.
This is a systemic problem of private media (and a damn good reason for govt statutory media like the ABC, emotional bull s**t aside), but is negated when there are wide variety of private media. We are getting less and less. And it’s the corporate right (which includes parts of the Clinton wing) which drive it.
So it’s good the alt right have discovered an issue which the left have been over for decades, but * off with the racist bullshit.
A couple of things. They think concentrated media manifests in 2 biases. Anti trump; which is stupid because trump is objectively an abomination as a president. And as per usual, they believe the bias effects racial issues. Whether it be immigration, crime, reverse discrimination... for the alt right, it all comes back to race.
The real issue with concentrated media ownership is economic. Media owned by corporations will ultimately reflect the financial interests of its owner. There are countless examples of this infects media. News becomes product placement. Rationalisation kills local media. Investigative journalism is ignored for scandal. Coverage of policy that threatens profits is framed.
This is a systemic problem of private media (and a damn good reason for govt statutory media like the ABC, emotional bull s**t aside), but is negated when there are wide variety of private media. We are getting less and less. And it’s the corporate right (which includes parts of the Clinton wing) which drive it.
So it’s good the alt right have discovered an issue which the left have been over for decades, but * off with the racist bullshit.
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So another domino falls with NEIN taking over Fairfax.
Guardian Aus and Independent Aus just got a shitload of new subs.
Other companies seem to be making moves too........
https://www.betootaadvocate.com/headlines/sbs-announce-merger-with-online-streaming-company-pornhub/
SBS Announce Merger With Online Streaming Company Pornhub
Guardian Aus and Independent Aus just got a shitload of new subs.
Other companies seem to be making moves too........
https://www.betootaadvocate.com/headlines/sbs-announce-merger-with-online-streaming-company-pornhub/
SBS Announce Merger With Online Streaming Company Pornhub
I am not overly happy about this but I seriously LOLed when Kate McClymont or whatever her name is was on the ABC pissing and whining about possible no go zones for investigative reporting. Their real estate website seemed to hold them up on doing any serious "investigative journalism" on the population ponzi, tax rorts, or how the universities have become visa factories. Need that housing bubble to keep ticking along.
Power Raid
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The need for media ownership laws has diminished with the internet and globalisation
That said I hope the merger is rejected by shareholders
That said I hope the merger is rejected by shareholders
She's probably the best investigative journalist in the country, and one of a dying breed. McClymont, and the rest of us, have great cause for concern.
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The Age is already s**t and has been for years, a far cry from its heyday as a broadsheet. Being purchased by Nine is the final nail in its coffin though, I bet Kerry Packer would've loved to be alive to see it.
