Comments on: Media players muddy the waters in ASIC rumourtrage crackdown http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/01/15/media-players-muddy-the-waters-in-asic-rumourtrage-crackdown/ now with extra source Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:47:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Tom McLoughlin http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/01/15/media-players-muddy-the-waters-in-asic-rumourtrage-crackdown/#comment-9591 Tom McLoughlin Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-9591 Actually it was a little confusing. But it's a story for the sector and no doubt they get it. Last sentence means? .... that journalists should tell their own laundry too. Yes that would be better. And good for their peace of mind too.<br /><br />Sorry to say I'm just guessing at rumourtrage - presumably leveraging invented or dubious market sensitive information to impact a share value - a bit like the famous sting on Gordon Gecko in Wall St where the unions and Bud get their revenge on Mr Only Wimps.<br /><br />But what comes through a bit is that SM here is close to this and needs a co author possibly - for instance he's always seen Mac as an at the least an international champion for Australia despite its many ruthless ways not least on promoting tollways for mass transport literally cruelling amenity for 4 million people in metro Sydney.<br /><br />And methinks he has before or maybe now has a few watching shares to declare. He may not and if he has it's almost certainly an oversight (not quite in the Sheehan league, obviously a cat lover presumably unconcerned about the right to life of 14 year old Palestinian girls - as per page 11 of the SMH today in bold type).<br /><br />Certainly by getting involved between each of the institutions - Mayne being quite a one as well - we public might just get the truth. Rumpole be praised. Actually it was a little confusing. But it’s a story for the sector and no doubt they get it. Last sentence means? …. that journalists should tell their own laundry too. Yes that would be better. And good for their peace of mind too.

Sorry to say I’m just guessing at rumourtrage - presumably leveraging invented or dubious market sensitive information to impact a share value - a bit like the famous sting on Gordon Gecko in Wall St where the unions and Bud get their revenge on Mr Only Wimps.

But what comes through a bit is that SM here is close to this and needs a co author possibly - for instance he’s always seen Mac as an at the least an international champion for Australia despite its many ruthless ways not least on promoting tollways for mass transport literally cruelling amenity for 4 million people in metro Sydney.

And methinks he has before or maybe now has a few watching shares to declare. He may not and if he has it’s almost certainly an oversight (not quite in the Sheehan league, obviously a cat lover presumably unconcerned about the right to life of 14 year old Palestinian girls - as per page 11 of the SMH today in bold type).

Certainly by getting involved between each of the institutions - Mayne being quite a one as well - we public might just get the truth. Rumpole be praised.

]]> By: dick http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/01/15/media-players-muddy-the-waters-in-asic-rumourtrage-crackdown/#comment-9592 dick Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-9592 Huh? Very confusing article. Huh? Very confusing article.

]]> By: roger gestetner http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/01/15/media-players-muddy-the-waters-in-asic-rumourtrage-crackdown/#comment-9593 roger gestetner Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-9593 yessiree, if there is world-leading expertise in putting the interest of a media company, its mastheads and its reporters ahead of truth, reality and the public interest, it resides in newscorp. if andrew main's story was written on dunny paper, you wouldn't wipe your bum with it. it is an example of why noone should believe a word newscorp prints without checking it in a dictionary first. and there's nothing confusing about the crikey article at all. yessiree, if there is world-leading expertise in putting the interest of a media company, its mastheads and its reporters ahead of truth, reality and the public interest, it resides in newscorp. if andrew main’s story was written on dunny paper, you wouldn’t wipe your bum with it. it is an example of why noone should believe a word newscorp prints without checking it in a dictionary first. and there’s nothing confusing about the crikey article at all.

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