Blogwatch: Channel 7, GetUp and that Tibet ad
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Channel 7 needs to explain. Our Tibet ad - which was booked and paid for - was not screened by Channel 7 in the scheduled slots last Friday night and Saturday morning. The ad was pulled at the last minute. It seems to us that in highlighting free speech issues in Tibet, we’ve run up against some serious ones of our own at home. — GetUp blog At least Australia has media freedom, right? Regardless of whether Seven took this decision under its own direction or were pressured into this by someone else (such as the IOC, as has been postulated elsewhere), this raises huge questions about media freedom - not just in China, but right here in Australia. — ish’s blog Seven at home in moral pollution in Beijing. If you reckon the air is dirty in Beijing, try watching the events through the moral smog and cultural static of the Seven network’s coverage. — Fox Sports Channel 7 to fiddle Olympic free speech. Speaking of wankers - go behind the IOC facade of feelgood handholding and nationalistic mindlessness with journalist and author Andrew Jennings. — Typing is not activism |
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I wonder how many of the C7 journalists were included in the ones complaining about freedom of the press not so long ago and how it’s ‘stifled’ in this country. Seems they get the right to pick and choose what we see and hear, or perhaps they’re not in control of their own network after all, and just puppets in a bigger game. Pity for them they weren’t supported by their masters in the recent legal action against the other players in the market.
And to think, before I read about their latest antics I was about to buy a Tivo, I had to cancel my order since now I don’t believe they’re showing us all their cards - I know of at least two others that are doing the same. I wonder how many orders they lose and how long it takes for their business to collapse to FOXTEL’s advantage.