Where’s Harold?
Monday’s has long been Dr Mumbo’s favourite day of the week. Why? because it was the day that Harold Mitchell’s column appeared in the Australian’s media section.
But sadly that appears to be no more. Since Mitchells won the Fairfax media business back in February, his column in the News Ltd paper has vanished. A sad moment for anyone in media.
Maybe he will pop up alongside Shoebridge in Monday’s AFR?!
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he’s in SMH business today 🙂
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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.
Its been online all day…..
http://business.smh.com.au/bus.....-a68r.html
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Thanks Andy – I think I searched on the headline, which is different to the print edition.
Cheers,
Tim – Mumbrella
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.
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