Comments on: Foxtel’s Kim Williams Takes the Fight Up to “Old Television”, Government and the ABC

By: Gossip, Niche Audiences, Public Space and Public “Broadcasting” – The Content Makers

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:48:57 +0000

...] pointed that out, I’d like to turn to the perpetual debate, stoked most recently by Foxtel boss Kim Williams, about the place and future of taxpayer funded “broadcasters” in an age of media plenty. [...

By: Peter CLARKE

Peter CLARKE — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:39:42 +0000

These speeches from the two Kims, Mark Scott and the other Mark, head of the BBC ( battle for “public space” – http://www.thinkingfaith.org/articles/20091118_1.htm) together, bring into shaper focus the basic currents of the fundamental debate around exactly how the available funding for media might/should be organised and the tough questions of degree and patterns of regulation and the roles of the public sector media including cultural conservation.

We should, in the interests of completeness and in the context of often glib invocations of ‘CHOICE” and “unique content” remember that the advertising model of funding media (alongside pay/subscriptions), including quality journalism, has always meant all of us paying more for goods and services to account for the advertising element and as tax payers indirectly as companies claim advertising inputs/costs through the tax system.

I know CHOICE is akin to a religion for many but it is essential to ascertain the exact character and reality of apparent choices and who is actually paying and how, both overtly and in more veiled ways.

By: Peter J. Nicol

Peter J. Nicol — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:48:14 +0000

Intriguing.

By: More Speechifying – Kim Dalton Calls for MORE Regulation. – The Content Makers

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:10:24 +0000

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