Random thoughts and observations
The recently released Independent Media Inquiry report proposes a statutory watchdog and regulation of all media in Australia, including the internet.
There has been a lot of commentary around the proposed inclusion of news blogs and websites with more than 15,000 hits per year.
This site has that many hits per month, but from my reading of the report, it won’t be captured under the proposed regulations.
Newspaper photographers are a dying species. The Guardian explains why newspapers are closing the shutters on staff photographers.
It mentions The Independent in England, the Daily Mirror and regional UK publisher Archant.
Newspaper photographers are in retreat. Staff jobs are vanishing as publishers look for new ways to cut costs.
I’m slow catching up with the local news, but this extraordinary article from the Weekly Times Messenger caught my eye: “Charles Sturt Council has asked media representatives to sit on opposite sides of the chamber’s gallery in each meeting in order to get a different perspective of the debate. The council’s staff approached a Weekly Times Messenger Reporter last week and asked her to stop sitting on the same side of the chamber each meeting.
I somehow found myself watching some old advertisements on YouTube tonight. This one shows former Australian cricket captain Allan Border enjoying a XXXX beer while Queensland teammates seek to join him. Two of the teammates I know are Greg Ritchie and Jeff Thomson, while the third might possibly be Ray Phillips. I’ve posted some other [...]
I mentioned yesterday there have been two larger-than-life stories in the news this week. One concerned the rugby league salary cap scandal; the other involved Western Australia’s (former) Treasurer Troy Buswell and his affair with Greens MP Adele Carles. I don’t need to comment on the Buswell affair. The facts are clear and the public [...]
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