Conroy proposes media reforms: the experts respond
By Sunanda Creagh, The Conversation
Australian print and online news organisations will be self-regulated through voluntary membership of a press standards body, under media reforms proposed by the Federal Government today.
The reforms comprise the government’s official response to the Convergence Review and Finkelstein Inquiry into the media in Australia.
Among the proposals is the creation of Public Interest Media Advocate, who would oversee mergers and acquisitions of news organisations, and a new Public Interest Test to ensure that diversity of voices is considered when mergers take place.
Very disappointing.
And not a word on a pressing problem : the inability of the average punter to obtain recourse via a tribunal for defamation.
So we still laws that benefit the rich.
The most awful faults of media are the relentless pursuit of the trivial and debasement of people who differ. You cant regulate either tendency and only a knucklehead would try.
Today’s Daily Telegraph front page – brought to you by the company that hacked the phone of a murdered child. Their hypocrisy is breathtaking.
In what way are these people “the experts”?