There is a growing body of opinion, a chorus of well-informed and considered thought, that is urging a role for public subsidies in support of quality journalism.
Newspapers, you see are dying. As Salon co-founder Gary Kamiya argues:
Journalism as we know it is in crisis. Daily newspapers are going out of business at an unprecedented rate, [...]
Tag Archives: media
Crikey editorial 18.02.09
February 18, 2009 – 7:09 pm
Tough questions in the fire coverage
February 11, 2009 – 10:13 am
Pictures just aired on Sky (so you’ll see them again later!) showing tearful reunions of anxious couples in the bushfire areas, people running to each other in tears having presumably spent the past few days lost in all sorts of ghastly speculations and wonderings. And then as they meet, they are surrounded by film crews. [...]
Britt Lapthorne … WTF?
October 20, 2008 – 10:39 am
Am I missing something in the Britt Lapthorne story? Any child’s death is undoubtedly an appalling tragedy for the parents involved …. but candlelit vigils? Public memorial services? Weeks of breathless coverage in the Australian media? Why no state funeral? It’s absurd. It speaks of something grisly and voyeuristic I reckon. Some empty place in [...]
Just another day in the politics of politics
September 17, 2008 – 1:55 pm
Good lord what can they mean? It’s been one of those weeks in which the politics of politics resolutely becomes the story. But here, with this little effort, The Australian has gone to the head of the class. What they mean, of course, is that Malcolm Turnbull has reclaimed the natural ascendency that conservatives have when it [...]
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