There has been a marked collapse in trust in Australian media outlets, increasing the distance between the ABC and the rest.
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Seven issue a statement on Warburton
Will Seven be able to prevent James Warburton from working for Ten until October 2012? Some very well paid lawyers will be discussing that very scenario right now, reports Dan Barrett.
Media briefs: Ten, Seven in legal stoush …. tabloid journo tell-all …
Hang Ten: Warburton might wait … Journo admits: I made it up … Facebook makes six people billionaires. …
Stokes just like the Fairfax of old … and growing
For Kerry Stokes, Fairfax Media remains open to him, if he wants it.
The media has crossed a line on politicians and is directly damaging the public interest
So here we are again: another humiliated politician, another embarrassed family, more sanctimonious journalists pruriently talking about sex scandals. We don’t have a “right to know”, thank you very much.
Feeding the gossip hordes isn’t “public interest”
David Campbell’s actions were embarrassing, but entirely legal. It’s a sad state of affairs when politicians resign not because of political bungles but irrelevant personal ones, writes Jonathan Green.
Stokes savours his sweet merger victory
Kerry Stokes is this morning savoring victory in the heated Seven-WesTrac merger, with 88% of shareholders voting in favour of the deal. But a substantial number of retail shareholders remain unconvinced.
The final insult: Stokes refuses to attend Seven EGMs
Kerry Stokes has taken the unprecedented step of declaring that his job as executive chairman of Seven doesn’t include fronting retail investors at tomorrow’s shareholder meeting.
Stokes crafts a sensible compromise, now for the new directors
It’s game, set and match for Kerry Stokes’ conglomeration of his media and equipment empire, with institutional shareholders almost certain to approve the $2 billion related party transaction in Sydney next Tuesday.
In race for rapist, Seven caught with its pants down
There’s nothing quite like a child-rapist-on-the-loose story to get the tabloid media baying for blood. Too bad that Channel Seven appeared to take leave of the facts in the frenzy.
Excessive debt sees Kerry Stokes labelled ‘former billionaire’
The Camp Stokes roadshow swung through Melbourne yesterday but there was no attempt to make contact with Crikey or the shareholder activist who has gone half a dozen rounds with the former billionaire at various AGMs over the years.
How debt-laden Coates Hire takeover hurt Kerry Stokes
Just because Kerry Stokes wants to pay down some private debt without triggering a big tax bill through a capital return of Seven’s cash doesn’t mean that institutional investors should be dragged along to create a hotch-potch conglomerate.
Kerry Stokes’ Caterpillar: the 1000 pound dozer in the room
The question remains, who benefits the most from Kerry Stokes’ WesTrac shuffle? Seems clear that the big winner will be Stokes himself.
Stokes poised for media domination after Seven mining move
Kerry Stokes wants to tighten his hold on the the Seven Network by selling his huge WesTrac business into Seven in exchange for a controlling interest in the group. He’s turning Seven into, essentially, a construction company.
Take it on trust: Rann still has questions to answer
Seven’s Sunday Night program has retracted its Mike Rann allegations. But the Premier still has questions to answer — on policy, and on trust — ahead of the State poll, writes Hendrik Gout.
Free TV handouts: we don’t know the half of it
We’ve been seriously underestimating just how much money the free-to-air TV networks will be getting from taxpayers under the Government’s outrageous licence fee rebates, reveal Glenn Dyer and Bernard Keane.
Move over Warnie, Seven’s the new spin king
The Seven network likes to set itself apart from Nine and Ten when it comes to misleading press releases about ratings or staff changes, but in reality, spins with the best.
Stokes bites the dust again on C7
Kerry Stokes has suffered another loss in the long-running C7 case with a full bench of the Federal Court rejecting its appeal against its 2007 comprehensive loss in the $200 million trade practices suit.
Seven wins: click go its (audience) shares
The Seven Network has won the metro TV ratings battle for the third year running, writes Glenn Dyer, but Ten boasted it was the biggest winner with the best increase in audience and the highest rating TV events of the year, MasterChef Australia and the AFL grand final.
Tilts, taunts, shaftings and media moguls
Yesterday’s Seven Network AGM produced the biggest booty of interesting exchanges that its billionaire proprietor Kerry Stokes has ever served up.
Stokes gives China major win in the West
The Huawei deal illustrates why Kerry Stokes is the best-connected Australian businessman in China.
Crikey Says: Seven requests Consolidated Media interests info
In a sneaky little move at the Australian Stock Exchange this morning, Kerry Stokes moved his Queen’s bishop to attack.
