Has the ACCC signalled an end to media concentration in Australia by raising significant doubts about the $2 billion takeover bid from Foxtel for regional Pay TV group, Austar?
July, 2011
Mayne: Austar intervention opens way to challenge Murdoch gerrymander
Another day, another blow to the world’s most powerful media empire.
Cadel’s moment of truth: Crikey guide to final stages of the Tour
As this week progressed, the Australian cycling commentariat has been anticipating that Cadel Evans would be delivering us an “America’s Cup moment”.
Privacy Eye: media shouldn’t fear debate on privacy laws
The federal government’s decision to initiate a debate on privacy laws has provoked some typically premature condemnation from some sections of the media, writes Michael Smith, former editor of The Age.
Virgin, after urging kids to binge drink, pulls ‘disgraceful’ ad
Richard Branson’s Virgin Wines and the News Limited-owned Moshtix have been forced to pull a disgraceful internet ad that glorified youth binge drinking, following a Crikey probe into its breach of 11 self-imposed advertising standards.
Monckton threatens to sue ABC, calls chairman a ‘shrimp’
Climate change denier Lord Christopher Monckton has threatened to sue the ABC and described its chairman Maurice Newman as a “shrimp-like wet little individual”, writes journalist Graham Readfearn.
There’s more than refugee boats on our northern horizon
The disputed sovereignty over the Spratly Islands, in the South China Sea, remains an issue for Asia-Pacific leaders.
Good week for journalism? There’s good news and bad news
I thought I’d riff a little on the question of whether this has been a good or bad week for journalism.
Steel trading has resonance with a Howard-era scandal
The Government should learn from its predecessor and call in the ANAO to review the handling of its steel package.
In IT’s dance of the inflating elephants, Microsoft is stumbling
With moves like Google’s launch of their own social network Google+, the corporate elephants are now engaged in a highly-competitive dance around a massive pot of gold.
Coal seam gas miners’ water bargaining potentially tainted
Mining companies are winning the support of farmers in the Dalby Downs region of North Queensland by offering to return water used during the process of coal seam gas extraction, despite concerns about water quality.
News Corp scandal: a handy guide to the week that was
In an attempt to help you — and us — get our brains around this mess, here’s a breakdown of the week that was for News of the World, in more or less chronological order:
How safe is your privacy?
Apparently your privacy is safe in the hands of Australia’s mainstream media. It’s not, of course. Ask Pauline Hanson, John Della Bosca, Troy Buswell, David Campbell and innumerable celebrities.
Sideshow Alley: Sideshow Alley: I’m sorry, could you repeat the question?
Each week Sideshow Alley will nominate the latest offerings to the service of dumbing down politics by journalists and/or politicians…
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Latham, a star is born
Crikey readers have their say.
Daily Proposition: Take a bath under the stars
Warm spring pools are filled with thermal mineral waters and, if you believe the blurb, are chock full of health-giving stuff that you normally see in jars in a chemist’s shop. I’m a believer.
Morning Market Report: Markets up as Greek bailout plan tabled
The market is up 49. The SFE Futures were up 45 this morning. The Dow Jones closed up 152 overnight. European Union officials drafted a solution to the debt crisis giving Greece a second bailout of €160bn cutting interest rates charged to challenged euro zone countries to just 3.5% and extending the repayment period to […]
Political snippets: Marvelling at ingenuity of carbon tax opponents
The creativity of carbon tax opponents is glorious to behold
Video of the Day: 30 years of space travel
Today is the official end of NASA space shuttle program. Here’s a wonderful video tribute to all the NASA missions, from the joys of floating in space to the horror of the two missions that didn’t make it home.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours
Tailing a paper tale. On Tuesday we asked if there was any truth in an allegation that an Australian tabloid newspaper hired investigative security firms to fix electronic tracking devices to the cars of unknowing private individuals. Our mole offers more juicy details: “Someone I know, who was a person of interest to the press […]
Crikey Says: Crikey says: Privacy Eye
“A statutory right to privacy is one very small shield against a vast effort to find out everything about you.”
How the The Guardian & The NY Times worked together on phone hacking scoop
Late last year The Guardian was frustrated with British laws limiting their investigations in to the News of the World scandal. So editor Alan Rusbridger gave the editor of the New York Times a call…
