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

[David Boxall]

On 30/04/2012 9:37 PM, Jan Whitaker wrote:
> ...
> Just heard that Jonathan Holmes will have a
> feature on the report on Media Watch next week.
> ...
Of course, vested interests will scream bloody murder:
<http://theconversation.edu.au/convergence-review-the-call-for-regulation-will-be-unpopular-with-established-media-6748>.

I've been reading up on massacres of Aboriginal Australians. Reactions 
of the times are eerily similar to those of media moguls today, to any 
hint of effective regulation. Perpetrators of massacres saw their 
behaviour as their right, in the interests of business.

Following successful prosecutions, massacres continued under a deeper 
code of silence and secrecy. If something more effective than the sick 
joke that is the Australian Press Council comes to pass, will vested 
interests in the media come up with ways to continue manipulating public 
perceptions?

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