The war of the leaking internet blacklists escalates, with Wikileaks publishing more recent blacklists and threatening Senator Stephen Conroy with legal action, writes Stilgherrian.
ACMA
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.
Back to the 50s: The Age and subliminal advertising
Why should there be a sanction against “subliminal advertising” when all the evidence shows it either doesn’t exist or doesn’t work and isn’t a threat, asks Dr Stephen Downes
ACMA putting industry before children’s health
The Australian Communications and Media Authority is in danger of losing all credibility as an independent regulator, writes Boyd Swinburn.
Senate inquiry gives great feedback on the TV complaints process
The reports on the Senate Committe Inquiry into broadcasting standards missed the one set of genuine changes that would make complaints far easier to make, writes Glenn Dyer.
Survival of community broadcasting at stake
More distress from community broadcasting as the new Government apparently prevaricates over the sector that needs decisions perhaps more than any other if it is to survive, writes Margaret Simons.
Howard government ordered digital channels; forgot the paperwork
Considerable doubt has been thrown on the claims from the Former Media Minister, Senator Helen Coonan about just what she planned to do with the A and B digital channels, writes Glenn Dyer.
More time on-line and no time for TV, says ACMA
Broadband up, television down, and hopes for a decreasing digital divide. Those are some of the pictures that can be gleaned from the ACMA Communications Report, released yesterday, writes Margaret Simons.
The Golden Tonsils’ long goodbye
John Laws exited stage left this morning. For those of you who may suffer withdrawal symptoms from the absence of the dulcit tones of the golden comb-over, to follow are some highlights from this morning’s long goodbye.
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Thank God You’re Here … analysis on the pollsters … Downer and Coonan in the boardrooms … Time for Australian Conservatives to unite … The conservative coalition will be back …
Business pays the price for government censorship
Government censorship of the internet took another significant but unheralded step forward last Friday. But it could have unintended consequences, writes Simon Bush.
How far can tabloid TV go in pursuit of the “public interest”?
Today Tonight has been given another regulatory rap over the knuckles — this time for breaching the privacy of a woman and child in a story about paternity testing, writes Andrew Dodd.
Home and Away on a slippery slide down a filthy pole
In an effort to boost my popularity, I will aver: I have been to a strip club. Helen Razer reveals all.
John Laws breaches broadcasting standards yet again
I suppose congratulations are in order for Southern Cross Broadcasting, the soon-to-be-former owners of 2UE, after it escaped a pasting by the Australian Communications and Media Authority for John Laws’ breaches of broadcasting standards yet again.
MacMedia set for “unacceptable” monopoly in SA
The people of Port Lincoln and the Spencer Gulf should get busy. They have just four more days to stop ACMA handing over all their commercial electronic media outlets to just one company — Macquarie Media Group.
Commercial networks gifted $20m of extra campaign ads
Our substantially foreign-owned free to air commercial TV industry has been given a multi million dollar bonus: permission to broadcast an extra minute of political advertising per hour in primetime during the forthcoming federal election campaign.
Watch this space: Kids watching less TV
The findings will come as a surprise to the lobbyists and others in the community who fear their children are watching too much TV. They show that children are now watching less TV than adults and less than in 2001.
