An excerpt of Caroline Overington’s session at Media 140 has been posted on YouTube, and the whole session is on Slow TV, including Annabel Crabb and others. In Overington’s address she displays all the defensiveness of News Limited, takes a shot at the ABC and its Director Mark Scott and gives some hints or Rupert’s plans. Seeing it again, it strikes me as even more extraordinary than it did at the time.
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MURDOCH: Andrew Bolt’s employer, hence his bias reporting on this former Australian.For the record, Rupert sold his citizenship for the Yankee dollar,and for his business requirements overthere. Regards Richard Ryan to the imposters out there, who are too scared to use their real names. YEAH, I am speaking to you stupid!
Once again I am puzzled about the weight being given to Overington’s comments. Not sure she will be the last to know but she will be a long way down the line. Rupe is obviously re-thinking this strategy after trying to drag all the other publishers into the hole he was digging and finding very few volunteers. Even Fairfax executives certainly not the sharpest tools in the shed knew it was a dud idea. Her comments on the ABC and News are just typical of the News Ltd army of sycophants to which can now be added David Speirs. Anyone anyone caught his interveiw with the Sun King? AT least he wasm’t wearing that ridiculous kevlar army helmet.
But Scott’s views of world domination deserved a big serve. It was laughable as someone said elsewhere on crikey. You have to have a dominant culture such as the US or the Brits or the Arab world Even the French struggling with their francophone network aimed at competing with the BBC. Mark Scott loves the sound of his own voice it is just that it rarely enunciates a clear well thought out strategy. He had years at fairfax to show he was a big thinker but spent the time carrying fred’s bags.
News Ltd is staggering around with a bad case of Rupe flu. Going nowhere but down, some of their ‘journos’ exposed as people with little ability apart from having Liberal party views.
Bad management is what has happened to News Corp. Warren Buffet must shake his head at the sheer incompetence and blindness of News corp leadership.
I listened to the podcast of that session the other day and her comments did seem a bit out of step with the discussion, i.e. pursuing an agenda nobody else seemed to be discussing.