[LINK] Fwd: MR26-12: Media statement by Chris Chapman on the Convergence Review

[Roger Clarke]

At 20:45 +1000 30/4/12, Antony Barry wrote:
>>  30 April 2012
>>  Media statement by Chris Chapman on the Convergence Review
...
>>  The ACMA has been living and working with the impact of 
>>convergence since its inception in 2005. For the last seven years 
>>it has been increasingly dealing on a daily basis with convergence 
>>issues such as telephone numbering and communications 
>>addressability, cybersafety, online security and a myriad of 
>>content-related matters.
...
>>  The ACMA is an independent player with deep experience of the 
>>current shape of the industry and insight into the disruptive 
>>changes which continue at an accelerated rate.

Chapman is fighting a rearguard action, putting on a brave face, etc.

ACMA has been completely useless as a consumer protection 
organisation, partly through rank incompetence (such as when it said 
it wanted to find against Channel 7 in a matter, but couldn't, 
because the rules it had written didn't allow it to, so it ruled 
against the complainant).

In any case, regulation of the media publication standards, and 
behaviour of media staff in collecting information, should not be 
performed by a government agency, but rather by a public regulatory 
body.

APF submitted that ACMA should under no circumstances be given any 
role in the standards regulation aspects, but rather that a new 
public regulatory body should take responsibility for establishing 
standards for print, broadcast and networked media, dealing with 
complaints, and imposing sanctions.

http://www.privacy.org.au/Papers/MediaInq-Sub-111118.pdf
http://www.privacy.org.au/Papers/MediaInq-120109.pdf
http://www.privacy.org.au/Papers/MediaInq-Stmt-120307.html

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