Digest: Details dribble out on Nine’s digital channel; News Ltd’s pay wall plans; and the red meat ape. Plus spooky times at the AFR
While every journo loves a scoop, the nature of many news stories is that the detail dribbles out a little at a time.
That’s certainly the theme with today’s newspaper Media & Marketing sections.
Arguably the most entertaining story of the day is Lara Sinclair’s coverage of Nine and NineMSN’s plans in The Australian. That’s not so much because of the subject matter – Nine’s long-expected digital general entertainment channel, but because of Nine CEO David Gyngell’s bombastic comments.
He’s got harsh but amusing words on Ten and its digital sports channel One:
As was Day’s response predictable: full of poorly and incorrectly used buzzwords, with a serious dose of stereotyping mixed in with a nice dose of I”m old, I make grizzling sounds.”
Can’t wait though until they put up a paywall. Can’t justify an Australian oriented site today, but can once they block off their content. Here’s hoping Fairfax won’t be far behind.