Perhaps the most striking recent example of Australia’s supine cross-media ownership laws was the decision by ACMA to allow Lachlan Murdoch to remain as a director of News Corp while clearly influencing Network Ten.
Terry McCrann
Media briefs: Queen on a tram … McCrann sub MIA … phone hacking inquiry …
Want to watch real car crash television from Nine News? Footage of a live cross this morning highlights the troubles of a live cross. Plus, other news of the day.
The rewriting of our fiscal history
There’s a concerted effort to rewrite fiscal history under Labor, and it’s highly offensive.
Woodside resists perfectly reasonable shareholder resolution on carbon
Woodside initially rejected a standard shareholder resolution calling for greater disclosure of carbon costs.
McCrann plays funny buggers with carbon terminology
Terry McCrann and others have attacked use of the word “carbon” in relation to pollution, as if it’s somehow dishonest to apply it to a substance that is natural or non-toxic. This line of logic is embarrassingly flimsy, writes Jeremy Sear.
Media briefs: McCrann on Argus … a Speakeasy postscript … News Corp’s BSkyB bid …
In today’s Media Briefs: Terry McCrann kowtows to BHP chairman, News Corporation’s bid for complete control of BSkyB, Google tries to predict Oscar winners, Whoop Goldberg says “whoops” and more…
Disagree with Terry McCrann? Well, you’re stupid then
Terry McCrann angrily types that “Sunday December 12 2010 is a date which will live on in stupidity.” Why? Well, Treasurer Wayne Swan released his fairly mild rebuke to the banks, and the Climate Minister Greg Combet signed the Cancun agreement, reports Jeremy Sear.
RSPT rumour file
Here we go again — more rumours that the government is about to cave-in on the RSPT. Too bad they’re not true.
BrisConn’s Rowe up a creek without a paddle
Trevor Rowe’s claims over his role in the BrisConnections saga are crumbling.
RBA lapdog McCrann powerless as tabloid goons flail away
In some parts of the Australian media, ignorance and populist clap-trap aren’t crimes, write Stephen Mayne and Glenn Dyer.
