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Now, I’m not going to lie to you.

There’s not very much in the media and marketing sections today. There a few nuggets, but in all honesty, it’s a tad on the thin – and foreign – side.  

That becomes clear from the front page of the Australian’s Media section. It’s dominated by the weekend speech from James Murdoch, boss of the paper’s owner’s European and Asian operations. But it was mainly an attack on the “chilling” behaviour BBC for distorting the online market with its provision of news.

In other news from far away, the front page also reports on how a Chinese editor has been sacked, and how the co-founder of publisher Derwent Howard appears to have gone AWOL in Spain.