LaTrobe Annual Lecture & Bad News

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Attended the La Trobe Uni Annual Media Studies lecture last night where the ACCC’s Graham Samuel talked engagingly about Australia’s changing media landscape. Broadly restated all the stuff I’ve been reading in Freidman’s The World Is Flat, but with a few Aussie specifics. So, I raised a few points from the floor:

I challenged his view on the ‘credibility’ of current media, citing the Fox Network, UK’s News of the World plus one or two rogue journos as evidence etc. Also asked if the increasingly participative & selective citizen media culture would lead to the end of fourth estate journalism & possibly the end of ’spin’. Read more