Twitter reminds media moguls about stones in glass houses
In the wake of the Daily Telegraph’s front page comparing Stephen Conroy to Stalin, Mao, Castro, Kim, Mugabe, and Ahmadinedjad, Dr Mumbo has been watching the reaction of social media quite intently.
One of his favourites so far has been a slightly modified poster tweeted by No Fibs Geek (@Geeksrulz) early this afternoon. Instead of comparing the minister to dictators it compares him to media moguls.
GREAT!!!!
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Brilliant. Keep it up.
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Indeed.
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Stupid.
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Today’s “apology” is possibly the best argument for media regulation.
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Given how restricted advertising is – and how irritating that can be – I’m surprised that people aren’t a little more bothered by this. Sure the Tele cover is stupid; and that’s what a free media environment allows – publications to be stupid, irreverent and irrelevant. As a society we seem to be very concerned that we only allow the “right” values.
And I miss that Fiat ad too….
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@ Neil: By stupid I meant the edited version shown above. Comparing Conroy to Stalin, Mao, Fidel and company was perfectly relevant, since they all controlled the press editorially.
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I’m appalled that any Australian could ever defend Conroy’s proposals. This may be in poor taste, but I’d much rather have poor taste in the Media than some ‘progressive’ (irony) ‘regulator’ determining what I can and cannot view for myself.
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The press needs to be regulated from the sinister dictators that are corporate media moguls – for surage(.)
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@Rhys, is that really what the regulation is? And if so, what is different from the regulator deciding versus an editor deciding what you should see, specifically which facts to present and which to suppress and which to make up on the spot?
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