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	<title>Crikey &#187; Eric Beecher</title>
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		<title>Beecher: media inquiry has mandate to address problems</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/16/beecher-media-inquiry-has-mandate-to-address-problems/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/16/beecher-media-inquiry-has-mandate-to-address-problems/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 02:53:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Beecher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Ad Business]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are three major problems confronting Australian journalism -- and the good news about the media inquiry announced this week by Senator Stephen Conroy is that it contains a specific mandate to address each of them.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Beecher: govt funding could stem loss of serious newspapers</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/01/beecher-govt-funding-could-stem-loss-of-serious-newspapers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/01/beecher-govt-funding-could-stem-loss-of-serious-newspapers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 03:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Beecher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Print]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[broadsheet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government funding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quality journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Age]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Australian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the sydney morning herald]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=244208</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What kind of democracy would we live in if it didn’t include the work of a thousand-or-so newspaper reporters and editors? ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>27</slash:comments>
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		<title>Beecher: logical for government to fund media diversity</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/16/news-limited-and-media-diversity-eric-beecher/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/16/news-limited-and-media-diversity-eric-beecher/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 02:51:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Beecher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eric Beecher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[media diversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News Limited]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News Ltd]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=241341</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is no democratic or economic rationale to support suggestions that News Limited should be forced to divest any of its Australian newspapers.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why it&#8217;s in our interest to know who really runs Australia</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/11/the-power-index-why-its-in-our-interest-to-know-who-really-runs-australia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/11/the-power-index-why-its-in-our-interest-to-know-who-really-runs-australia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 03:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Beecher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[powerbrokers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The power daily]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Power Index]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=240492</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the lead-up to Monday’s launch of <i>The Power Index</i>, a new publication led by Paul Barry, from the makers of <i>Crikey</i> and Private Media, publisher <b>Eric Beecher</b> asks why we should all care about who the powerful are and what motivates their society-affecting decisions. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>Beecher: from a burning platform, Fairfax had to take the plunge</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/03/beecher-from-a-burning-platform-fairfax-had-to-take-the-plunge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/03/beecher-from-a-burning-platform-fairfax-had-to-take-the-plunge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 03:31:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Beecher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Print]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fairfax newspapers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greg Hywood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sydney Morning Herald]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Age]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=220776</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The new leadership at Fairfax Media will attract fierce criticism over the announcement today of a recalibration of its flagship newspapers by sacking all their sub-editors. But they had to do something.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Beecher: Fairfax is sinking; a new captain alone won&#8217;t save it</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/12/07/beecher-fairfax-is-sinking-a-new-captain-alone-wont-save-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/12/07/beecher-fairfax-is-sinking-a-new-captain-alone-wont-save-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 02:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Beecher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian McCarthy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eric Beecher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=191290</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Fairfax Media is arguably the most opportunistic company in Australia. Over the past decade, it has never lost the opportunity to shoot itself in the foot or to publicly showcase its dysfunctionality.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/12/07/beecher-fairfax-is-sinking-a-new-captain-alone-wont-save-it/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Beecher: dark side of journalism getting a foothold</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/28/beecher-dark-side-of-journalism-getting-a-foothold/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/28/beecher-dark-side-of-journalism-getting-a-foothold/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 02:07:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Beecher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[future of journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[journalism ethics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=181677</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[To what extent should a journalist be prepared to compromise ethical standards in pursuit of a story?]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/28/beecher-dark-side-of-journalism-getting-a-foothold/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Australian&#8217;s grand obsession: itself</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/06/11/the-australians-grand-obsession-itself/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/06/11/the-australians-grand-obsession-itself/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 03:04:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Beecher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Print]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TV & Radio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Australian]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=145468</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Not only is <em>The Australian's</em> entrenched narcissism deeply embarrassing, it regularly undermines the paper's otherwise legitimate credentials as a purveyor of serious journalism.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/06/11/the-australians-grand-obsession-itself/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>Beecher: Exhilarating iPad will help kill newspapers, not save them</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/06/01/beecher-exhilarating-ipad-will-help-kill-newspapers-not-save-them/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/06/01/beecher-exhilarating-ipad-will-help-kill-newspapers-not-save-them/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 04:07:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Beecher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Online]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Print]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iPad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[newspapers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=142763</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Using the iPad to consume journalism is a thrilling experience. But, for the future of newspapers and old media, it also feels very much like a Hindenburg moment.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/06/01/beecher-exhilarating-ipad-will-help-kill-newspapers-not-save-them/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Beecher: Tabloid media laughing all the way to the pub on Campbell</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/05/24/beecher-tabloid-media-laughing-all-the-way-to-the-pub-on-campbell/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/05/24/beecher-tabloid-media-laughing-all-the-way-to-the-pub-on-campbell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 03:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Beecher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TV & Radio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[david campbell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gay sex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[journalistic ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ken's of kensington]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[media ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tabloid journalism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=140712</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest "debate" about media and privacy, triggered by last week's television expose of NSW Minister David Campbell leaving a gay club, is a sham conducted by people who are paid extremely well to legitimise something that is nasty and indefensible.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/05/24/beecher-tabloid-media-laughing-all-the-way-to-the-pub-on-campbell/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>Beecher: The iPad won&#8217;t save newspapers</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/12/beecher-the-ipad-wont-save-newspapers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/12/beecher-the-ipad-wont-save-newspapers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 03:18:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Beecher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Online]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business models]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[future of journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[future of media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[future of newspapers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iPad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[newspapers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=129744</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The iPad is a wonderful device that will bring joy and utility to millions of people. But it won't -- and can't -- save the economic fate of newspapers.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/12/beecher-the-ipad-wont-save-newspapers/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Beecher: Why Murdoch defies gravity while other owners have to play by the rules</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/07/beecher-why-murdoch-defies-gravity-while-other-owners-have-to-play-by-the-rules/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/07/beecher-why-murdoch-defies-gravity-while-other-owners-have-to-play-by-the-rules/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 02:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Beecher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[future of journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[future of media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News Corp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paywalls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rupert Murdoch]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=128706</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The fact that News Corp loses a great deal of money on its flagship newspapers doesn't necessarily mean this is not a profitable formula. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/07/beecher-why-murdoch-defies-gravity-while-other-owners-have-to-play-by-the-rules/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Beecher: Kewell story the latest hit in the media&#8217;s celebrity crack fix</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/03/29/beecher-kewell-story-the-latest-hit-in-the-medias-celebrity-crack-fix/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/03/29/beecher-kewell-story-the-latest-hit-in-the-medias-celebrity-crack-fix/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 02:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Beecher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Print]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Good Weekend]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[harry kewell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public Relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spinning the Media]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=126773</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Without a constant supply of celebrities -- the full array from actors to sports stars to politicians to wannabes -- most of the popular media simply would not function, as demonstrated perfectly in the <em>SMAge</em>'s <em>Good Weekend</em> lift-out this week.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Beecher: Bingle and the bullying media no moral crusade</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/03/15/beecher-bingle-and-the-bullying-media-no-moral-crusade/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/03/15/beecher-bingle-and-the-bullying-media-no-moral-crusade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Beecher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freedom of speech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Herald Sun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lara bingle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mark day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[privacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Australian]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=123217</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The media's appalling behaviour in the Lara Bingle saga will only serve to strengthen privacy laws.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/03/15/beecher-bingle-and-the-bullying-media-no-moral-crusade/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>ABC chairman gives editorial independence a kick in the groin</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/03/11/abc-chairman-gives-editorial-independence-a-kick-in-the-groin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/03/11/abc-chairman-gives-editorial-independence-a-kick-in-the-groin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Beecher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ABC editorial policies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[maurice newman]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=122436</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With one speech, ABC chairman Maurice Newman has returned the national broadcaster to the days of having a politically interventionist board running a culture wars agenda.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/03/11/abc-chairman-gives-editorial-independence-a-kick-in-the-groin/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>136</slash:comments>
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		<title>Government&#8217;s FTA TV bonus could have better spent elsewhere</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/02/15/governments-fta-tv-bonus-could-have-better-spent-elsewhere/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/02/15/governments-fta-tv-bonus-could-have-better-spent-elsewhere/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 02:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Beecher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TV & Radio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free-to-air TV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs JBWere]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kerry Stokes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Conroy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=116509</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, without any hint or debate, the federal Government dramatically changed the settings and priorities of Australian media policy.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/02/15/governments-fta-tv-bonus-could-have-better-spent-elsewhere/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Beecher: NYT to join the paywall brigade</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/01/21/new-york-times-to-join-the-paywall-brigade/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/01/21/new-york-times-to-join-the-paywall-brigade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Beecher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Online]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[online news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paid news content]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paywalls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The New York Times]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=111191</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The <i>New York Times</i> will introduce a charge for readers to use its website next year, heralding the most important development so far in the agonising who-will-pay-for-quality-journalism debate. The world of free journalism will never be the same.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/01/21/new-york-times-to-join-the-paywall-brigade/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>Sorry Mike, but your integrity counts. We need to know</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/24/sorry-mike-but-your-integrity-counts-we-need-to-know/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/24/sorry-mike-but-your-integrity-counts-we-need-to-know/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Beecher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Rann]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[privacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[privacy standards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public interest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Like many politicians, Mike Rann has been perfectly happy to exploit his private life when it suited him. Yet the moment there's a hint of sex, he suddenly demands silence.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/24/sorry-mike-but-your-integrity-counts-we-need-to-know/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>103</slash:comments>
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		<title>Beecher: the choreograph of the commentariat</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/13/beecher-the-choreograph-of-the-commentariat/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/13/beecher-the-choreograph-of-the-commentariat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Beecher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Bolt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miranda Devine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Piers Akerman]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/13/beecher-the-choreograph-of-the-commentariat/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Synchronised indignation has been a trademark feature of the Australian media commentariat for years, writes <b>Eric Beecher</b>: the past week's episode started with a stirring landmark speech about climate change by the Prime Minister at the Lowy Institute.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>This is not the time for Mark Scott to build empires</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/11/this-is-not-the-time-for-mark-scott-to-build-empires/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/11/this-is-not-the-time-for-mark-scott-to-build-empires/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Beecher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ABC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Scott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News Limited]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/11/this-is-not-the-time-for-mark-scott-to-build-empires/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week's speech by ABC managing director Mark Scott advocates the creation of an expensive new ABC global television service as "an important way of putting Australian democracy on display". But there's a much more important place for the ABC to do that -- at home, writes <b>Eric Beecher</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/11/this-is-not-the-time-for-mark-scott-to-build-empires/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Free Evening Standard: paywall waters muddied</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/05/free-evening-standard-paywall-waters-muddied/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/05/free-evening-standard-paywall-waters-muddied/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Beecher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Print]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alexander Lebedev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[future of newspapers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[London Evening Standard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[newspapers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rupert Murdoch]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/05/free-evening-standard-paywall-waters-muddied/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Newspaper publishers everywhere will be avidly watching the <em>London Evening Standard's</em> decision to drop its print paywall. Will free newspapers attract more advertisers?]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/05/free-evening-standard-paywall-waters-muddied/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Does Fairfax need a 67-year-old grocer at the helm?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/30/does-fairfax-need-a-67-year-old-grocer-at-the-helm/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/30/does-fairfax-need-a-67-year-old-grocer-at-the-helm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Beecher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Players]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[future of newspapers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[roger corbett]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/30/does-fairfax-need-a-67-year-old-grocer-at-the-helm/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Roger Corbett is poised to become Chairman of Fairfax. Does he honestly believe he is the best person to steer Australia's venerable newspaper publisher through the most challenging period in its history?]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/30/does-fairfax-need-a-67-year-old-grocer-at-the-helm/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Beecher: Walker squabbles while Fairfax burns</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/18/beecher-walker-squabbles-while-fairfax-burns/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/18/beecher-walker-squabbles-while-fairfax-burns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Beecher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Fairfax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ron Walker]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/18/beecher-walker-squabbles-while-fairfax-burns/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The feud between Fairfax Chairman Ron Walker and the Fairfax family is like watching a brawl between the captain and senior personnel on the Titanic, while the ship sinks and the crew jump for their lives.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/18/beecher-walker-squabbles-while-fairfax-burns/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Death of newspapers: it&#8217;s the advertising, stupid</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/17/death-of-newspapers-its-the-advertising-stupid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/17/death-of-newspapers-its-the-advertising-stupid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Beecher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Print]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advertising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Wyman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[future of journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[future of newspapers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[newspaper death watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[newspapers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Newspapers aren't dying because readers are no longer buying them. The main problem is that <em>advertisers</em>, whose ads have always paid the cost of journalism, are deserting newspapers.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/17/death-of-newspapers-its-the-advertising-stupid/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>How to have your paywall and eat it too</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/10/how-to-have-your-paywall-and-eat-it-too/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/10/how-to-have-your-paywall-and-eat-it-too/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Beecher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Online]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[online news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paid news content]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paywalls]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/10/how-to-have-your-paywall-and-eat-it-too/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week's revelation that newspaper publishers are planning to ask readers to pay for online content has been greeted in many quarters as some kind of gigantic gamble. But where, precisely, is the gamble? asks <b>Eric Beecher</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/10/how-to-have-your-paywall-and-eat-it-too/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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