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If you think a report is inaccurate, biased or unfair in its reporting on the findings of the Finkelstein inquiry or Convergence Review, don’t bother going to the Australian Press Council with a complaint.

Yesterday, Bernard Keane untangled some of the false arguments behind opposition to a public interest test for media ownership. Today, David Salter reviews the parallel campaign against content regulation.

Kim Williams’ speech dealing with media regulation were so utterly cack-handed, writes David Salter, veteran journalist and former Media Watch executive producer.

Crikey readers have their say.

There is a respectable point of view among those who analyse media businesses that the smart thing to do for serious news journalism is move to the political right.

Journalists union the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance have moved to refer its powers of complaint handling to bolstered media regulator the Australian Press Council.

Even before they could be sure of precisely what it contained, many of those who claim to speak for the press in Australia were lining up to damn the Convergence Review released today, writes David Salter.

The announcement late last week by the owners of The West Australian that they will resign their membership of the Australian Press Council has interesting ramifications, writes David Salter, veteran journalist and former Media Watch EP.

After long and delicate negotiations, it was announced Australia’s major publishers had agreed to greatly increase the funding for the Australian Press Council.

After months of ongoing discussions, Private Media, publisher of Crikey, is officially joining the Australian Press Council.

There is a point of view, represented in many of the submissions to the Fink, that the bad things about a free media are simply something we must put up with, in order not to throw out the free press baby with shitty bathwater of media misconduct.

Today Crikey reproduces Mark Latham’s complaint to the Press COuncil.

News Limited CEO John Hartigan and group editorial director Campbell Reid appeared before Ray Finkelstein and made it clear that they are willing to support better self-regulation.

Team Fairfax — Greg Hywood, Gail Hambly and Peter Fray — arrived with a suggestion of attitude and began their presentation with assertion

The journalists’ union has advocated the establishment of a “one-stop shop” for complaints against news organisations, covering broadcast, print and online media.

Yet again we’re being told the internet is a frontier that needs closing — this time by the Press Council.