In today’s Media Briefs: Southern Star boss quits … Ten bringing back late news: report … AFR closes MIS Magazine … first Western killed in Syrian uprising and more …
Southern star
Media briefs and TV ratings
Australian Idol facing the Network Ten cost-cutter … Howard and Rudd stir up the Grumpy Old Men … It really is The Smage … Last night’s TV ratings.
Network tensions over Big Brother YouTube posting
Word around the TV industry is that relations between Southern Star and Endermol Southern Star, and the Ten Network are said to have soured and the reason is believed to be this YouTube posting. It’s a rehearsal of the finale of Big Brother last month.
Rudd should stay out of Queensland
When you have the spectacle of a Queensland Nationals Senator moving a motion citing the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights, you know something really bizarre politically is going on. Mark Bahnisch weighs in.
Senate paves the way for NT ‘emergency intervention’
Later today, parliament is expected to pass three bills which will give the government the power it needs for its ‘emergency intervention’ (after 11 years of rule) into the lives of Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory, writes Chris Graham.
