- Joined
- 30 June 2008
- Posts
- 16,312
- Reactions
- 8,336
With the Channel 9 takeover of Fairfax Australia will almost certainly lose the investigative skills that opened up the sexual abuse acandels and the banking scandels. Both of these investigations resulted in Royal Commissions that have (theoritically) been critical in addressing huge problems in our society.
The Age and Sydney Morning Herald will continue to operate but there is little confidence that joint investigative reports with the ABC will be part of the new operations. If there are such activities they will be the crime tabloid type that commercial TV goes for.
Is this loss of independent questioning journalism a problem ?
Paul Keating perspective on the issue.
The Fairfax takeover is a great pity – Nine has the ethics of an alley cat
Paul Keating
The cross-media rule gave Australia 30 years of media diversity. This merger was inevitable as soon as it was removed
Thu 26 Jul 2018 05.59 BST First published on Thu 26 Jul 2018 05.59 BST
The kind of merger announced today between Channel Nine and Fairfax was bound to happen the moment the cross-media legislation introduced by the Hawke government 30 years ago was suspended.
The so-called cross-media rule gave Australia 30 years of media diversity, especially between Australia’s major television networks and its capital city print.
Those barriers in the wholesaling of news underwrote diversity of opinion, guaranteeing an altogether better informed and livelier public debate.
The absence of those legislative barriers, in the media free-for-all the Turnbull government is permitting, will, because of the broadly maintained power of those outlets, result in an effective and dramatic close down in diversity and, with it, opinion.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2...e-has-the-journalistic-ethics-of-an-alley-cat
The Age and Sydney Morning Herald will continue to operate but there is little confidence that joint investigative reports with the ABC will be part of the new operations. If there are such activities they will be the crime tabloid type that commercial TV goes for.
Is this loss of independent questioning journalism a problem ?
Paul Keating perspective on the issue.
The Fairfax takeover is a great pity – Nine has the ethics of an alley cat
Paul Keating
The cross-media rule gave Australia 30 years of media diversity. This merger was inevitable as soon as it was removed
Thu 26 Jul 2018 05.59 BST First published on Thu 26 Jul 2018 05.59 BST
The kind of merger announced today between Channel Nine and Fairfax was bound to happen the moment the cross-media legislation introduced by the Hawke government 30 years ago was suspended.
The so-called cross-media rule gave Australia 30 years of media diversity, especially between Australia’s major television networks and its capital city print.
Those barriers in the wholesaling of news underwrote diversity of opinion, guaranteeing an altogether better informed and livelier public debate.
The absence of those legislative barriers, in the media free-for-all the Turnbull government is permitting, will, because of the broadly maintained power of those outlets, result in an effective and dramatic close down in diversity and, with it, opinion.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2...e-has-the-journalistic-ethics-of-an-alley-cat