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Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: Double-standards at ACMA?
Fairfax a ‘laughing stock’ over Evans conflict
It took two years for the Fairfax Board to realise that David Evans, one of its members, was in breach of the law by being a director of both Fairfax Media and Village Roadshow. Just another example of poor governance at Fairfax?
There may still be twists in the Fairfax tale
The Fairfax AGM tomorrow may not be quite the cakewalk the board has been at such pains to orchestrate.
A new front in the battle for Fairfax
The battle for the Fairfax Media just became even more interesting with today’s revelation that the industry regulator, ACMA, is conducting a review of independent director David Evans.
ABC staff have to suck it up under new complaints system
ABC staff have been told they will have to develop “thicker skins” under a new system for handling complaints, which lays a heavy emphasis on encouraging audience members to make their gripes public.
Well, how would you like to be Sandilands’ boss?
The toughest media job in the world is husbanding 2DayFm and Austero through to the end of the two current ACMA inquiries into talkback radio, one involving Kyle and Jacki O.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Tabloid Crikey?
Crikey readers weigh in on Michael Danby’s criticisms of New Matilda and Crikey and Mark Day on Mark Day.
Conroy orders Telstra to do the splits
The government has again smashed Telstra’s monopolistic agenda with a raw display of executive power — announcing its intention to force the company to separate its wholesale and retail arms.
ACMA iTunes and the failure of net filtering
The underlying Australian internet censorship process is unworkable, and always will be. Opponents of the filter are busy proving it, with complaints about iTunes selling MA15+ films without requiring age verification.
Let the public make the call on Kyle and O, not ACMA
As odious as Kyle and Jackie O can be with their shock jock car crash radio stunts, they are a necessary part of free speech, which we consumers should police with the off button.
A Current Affair rapped over knuckles for hypnotising viewers
ACMA has just released a finding determining that that the Nine Network’s A Current Affair breached the code by allowing a segment to be broadcast whereby viewers might be hypnotised.
The Kyle and Jackie O Code of Contrition
In commercial radio, if you grossly offend the nation’s sensibilities, you simply suspend yourself for two weeks and move on, writes Andrew Dodd.
Last minute injunction leaves 60 Minutes flat footed
The desperate spiking of last-night’s 60 Minutes “suicide cluster” story had an interesting lead-up, pitting BeyondBlue chief Jeff Kennett and adolescent psychologist Michael Carr-Gregg against Nine chief David Gyngell.
Crikey Clarifier: How media regulation works
Wondering how and where you can complain about the Kyle and Jackie-O rape segment? Bernard Keane has the answers.
$360,000 final price tag for the Golden Tonsils
Radio 2UE has been ordered by the Federal Court to pay $360,000 for 13 separate breaches of sponsorship guidelines in John Laws’ final months on-air.
Why is free-to-air TV still hogging sports coverage?
The Federal Government’s anti-siphoning list amounts to direct, government-approved theft from sports bodies, writes Bernard Keane. When is that going to change?
Tips and rumours: Imminent election?
In tips & rumours today: the best indicator of an imminent election has been the Electoral Commission checking if post offices have sufficient enrolment forms. They just checked.
ACMA’s blacklist stuff up response: “so sue us”
ACMA has told a Senate Estimates hearing that owners of websites mistakenly or maliciously added to its web filtering blacklist will have to sue it or seek redress from the Commonwealth Ombudsman.
ACMA finds Today Tonight breaches code of practise
Yesterday, the Australian Communications and Media Authority found channel Seven’s Today Tonight breached the Commercial Television Industry Code of Practice.
Conroy’s continued lies and gaffes
Computers don’t respond to rhetoric, persuasion or emotional appeals. Computers don’t have a “mostly” function. Geeks, therefore, demand clear language, writes Stilgherrian.
It certainly looks like the ACMA blacklist, eh Senator Conroy?
Evidence is mounting that the list of websites published by Wikileaks is almost certainly ACMA’s “secret” blacklist, writes Stilgherrian.
Yet another ACMA internet blacklist springs a leak
The war of the leaking internet blacklists escalates, with Wikileaks publishing more recent blacklists and threatening Senator Stephen Conroy with legal action, writes Stilgherrian.
Blacklist leak: ACMA not cut out to play cyber-cop
The leaking of ACMA’s blacklist perfectly demonstrated the faulty logic behind the Government’s net filtering proposal, writes Bernard Keane.
ACMA’s blacklist just got read all over
The more you try to hide your controversial Internet blacklist, Senator Conroy, the bigger you make it, the bigger the incentive for someone to leak it, writes Stilgherrian.
The Coca-Cola Chronicles: Big Sugar drops the other shoe
Coca-Cola’s hope is that by showing what terribly good corporate citizens they are, they’ll head the Parliamentary Obesity enquiry and ACMA off at the pass, writes David Gillespie.
