The line between media reflecting public concern about asylum seekers and fuelling racist debate is one many media outlets struggle to define, writes Sarah Hunt, a writer and media advisor to the Ethnic Communities’ Council of Victoria.
SBS
Troubled SBS needs $50m government handout in a hurry
You can call it a “tight budgetary situation”, or you can call it a crisis. Either way, the rumble is that SBS is in real trouble.
Media briefs: No radicals at RN … Oz’s US sceptic ‘scoop’ …
ABC Radio National managers were locked in talks about the future of programming and the need to attract a younger audience. Plus, Oz exclusive from a US sceptic and other media news.
Macquarie arm in secret multimillion deal with SBS
A Macquarie Bank subsidiary entered into a secret side contract with the SBS, under which an “incentive payment” of $3.85 million was paid without being declared to the market or the ABC.
Essential: the media aren’t biased, but…
Voters think the media aren’t biased and believe them more than politicians. After that, though, their view of the media is bleaker.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The nuclear debate’s healthy green glow
Crikey readers have their say.
SBS gets a new boss — so what about merging with Aunty?
So what was the board of SBS trying to achieve by appointing backroom boy Michael Ebeid to the top of our second public broadcaster? And where might this appointment take the organisation, which is currently in financial difficulty and struggling to redefine itself?
Media briefs: New SBS boss … the Scream spoiler …
SBS goes to ABC for its new boss, Fairfax film critic Jim Schembri spoils the ending of Scream 4 — then denies it — and other media news.
Is SBS a no sizzle zone?
Last weekend SBS broadcast the Coen Brothers’ Oscar winning drama No Country for Old Men but aired it at the bizarre time of 10pm on Saturday night. Is the network averse to good programming? asks Dan Barrett.
George Negus quits SBS for news at Ten
BREAKING NEWS: George Negus is heading back to commercial television, quitting SBS to spearhead Channel Ten’s revamped news line-up.
Daily Proposition: Get wild with Bear Grylls
Bear Grylls is perhaps the suavest man on television, despite favouring cargo pants over Saville Row suits and preferring his own urine to martinis. Man vs. Wild is tonight’s top viewing, says Dan Steiner.
SBS: Go niche, life is peaceful there
SBS needs to start sending out an SOS, because its ratings are plummeting and it’s wasting its glorious potential, writes Dan Barrett. Why does it waste its marquee movies at 10pm on Saturday night?
Daily Proposition: Watch le Tour from the comfort of le couch
Despite the sport of cycling being plagued by countless doping scandals, few would argue that the Tour de France is one of the world’s toughest sporting events. So settle on the couch.
World Cup: SBS TV dumbs down the World Cup
SBS management is basically saying that football (aka the World Game) is not a mainstream sport and remains just a game for “sheilas, wogs and poofters”, writes an SBS insider.
After pregnant pause, ABC, SBS board changes announced
The appointment of new directors to the boards of the ABC and SBS has proven to be inexplicably and distressingly slow.
Brown dismantling subtitling piece-by-piece: SBS insider
Soon we will blink, and the wonderful, beautiful subtitles that have given so much joy and happiness to so very many people all over Australia will be gone , writes a current SBS staff member.
Silencing the SBS subtitlers
SBS insider David Ingram spills on the recent sacking of 10 SBS subtitlers, saying the broadcaster now seems unsure whether its aim is multicultural or mainstream.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The David Campbell saga
Crikey readers weigh in in the David Campbell saga: was Seven write to spill it? Plus, the joy of e-readers and SBS silence their subtitlers.
Media briefs: SBS subtitlers say goodbye … e-books on the rise …
Four subtitlers from SBS have already been told of their imminent redundancies, with more to be announced tomorrow. Plus, Google UK keeps wi-fi data, #askABC goes viral and other media tidbits.
SBS cuts back on subtitling in ‘drift away from multiculturalism’
At least 10 staff from SBS Television’s subtitling unit will be made redundant because of what the network’s critics have long feared — an apparent reduction in foreign language content, writes Crikey intern Matt de Neef.
NITV’s “shotgun wedding” to end in tears all ’round
We’ll call it now — the federal Budget to be handed down in six week’s time will recommend that the troubled indigenous TV broadcaster National Indigenous Television be folded into an expanded ABC Indigenous media unit.
SBS: We’re not just the naked, subtitled channel
After years of trying to claim that it isn’t just an ethnic channel, SBS are now trying to push their multiculturalism as a reason for why their national funding should continuing. Too little too late? asks David Ingram.
Daily Proposition: Bong smoking and bestiality at taxpayers’ expense
Family First Senator Steve Fielding slammed SBS TV show Wilfred because he didn’t “think taxpayers’ money should be used to finance film projects that display acts of bestiality”. Now I had to watch it.
