Regulating the media: Julian Disney, Campbell Reid, Peter Fray and Matthew Ricketson
At this month’s Mumbrella360 conference, the Regulating the Media panel discussed the Australian Press Council.
The panel included: Prof Julian Disney, chairman of the Australian Press Council, Campbell Reid editorial director, News Limited, Peter Fray publisher and editor-in-chief Sydney Morning Herald and Matthew Ricketson, assistant to the Finkelstein Independent Media Inquiry. Moderating the session was Mumbrella editor-in-chief Tim Burrowes.
15min video highlights:
Full 41 minute audio version:
- Is the Press Council fit for purpose? (4:01)
- Cuts to the council’s funding (10:04)
- Seven West pulling out of the APC (15:39)
- Is the council a toothless tiger? (32:29)
- Does the public trust the media? (39:00)
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Julian Disney didnt he use to work for the Low Income Sector and spoke to ABC following each Federal Budget in the mid Noughties?
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Fantastic! Brilliant! “Regulating the Media” – now there’s an idea.
Let’s hire a gaggle of left-wing luvvies to “regulate”….today our press, tomorrow our culture.
Watch them channel Andrei Zhdanov, the Cultural Commissar for Stalin from 1946, ensuring all media and cultural output conforms to the party line.
Failure to conform isn’t an option.
Well done, socialist Greens, and your limp-wristed, spineless partners, the ALP.
And to think I was naive enough to believe this is Australia in 2012.
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Seems similar to the refugee ‘expert panel’ . Pick people who will write what you want
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