Comments on: Where’s Harold?

By: paul paech

paul paech — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:00:45 +0000

Just found your own site here, but Mitchell’s intro column for the SMH struck me as an astounding piece.
1: “Old media were created with business in mind”
Come on: the proposition that business (ie, making money) drives everything i(including old media) is a contemporary value judgement.
2: “private enterprise control [of digital media].. .has not been beneficial for ordinary people or the long-term good”
This is an extraordinary admission from Oz’s most aggressive MadMan.

With this season’s Gruen Factor aggressively pushing out the boat on the social implications of advertising, with ABC TV and radio gaining market share, and with SBS braodcasting the complelling HBO series MadMen, the effect of advertising on our social well being is due for major critical re-evaluation.

If the economic downturn means fewer Go-Harvey Norman-Go spots spewing into the nation’s living rooms, it will have been a great success. Chance are, it’s going to mean a lot more.

By: mumbrella

mumbrella — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 04:30:19 +0000

Thanks Andy – I think I searched on the headline, which is different to the print edition.

Cheers,

Tim – Mumbrella

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 04:19:56 +0000

Its been online all day…..

http://business.smh.com.au/bus.....-a68r.html

By: mumbrella

mumbrella — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:04:18 +0000

Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to be online, so I can’t offer a link, but his column, on page 2 of the SMH, is going to be weekly, according to the blurb. In summary though, this week, he thinks that the government’s broadband plans are A Good Thing.

By: ann

ann — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:15:32 +0000

he’s in SMH business today

By: Adam Joseph

Adam Joseph — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 05:02:13 +0000

Maybe he will pop up alongside Shoebridge in Monday’s AFR?!