Hard News: A nation bullied
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Lucy Stewart, in reply to
I for one have a choice, don't read them, anyofthem! The press in NZ is diabolical and there is not one journalist I would trust, period.
How would you suggest learning about goings on beyond one's own personal experience, then?
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Lilith __, in reply to
The press in NZ is diabolical and there is not one journalist I would trust, period.
You do realise you’re commenting on the blog of one of them?
[whoops, that's to Richard, not Lucy]
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Steve Withers, in reply to
Stephen Judd: Papers like the Guardian are distinguished by ownership via a trust or foundation with a charter stating the values they must adhere to. The Toronto Star has a similar charter and while it isn't the Guardian it isn't a shrill journal owned by any billionaire with a political axe to grind. These newspapers stand out as being more independent than the "7-Eleven" chain of convenience store journalism that has sadly become the norm almost everywhere. Maybe there is a model here that could / should be encouraged if not legally mandated. Or maybe we should dig into our own pockets and make one. (Too many people aren't digital yet. They don't here what happens here unless it spills into the print or conventional broadcast media).
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Russell Brown, in reply to
all journalist use subterfuge, like all council workers on garbage trucks collect garbage, it's just the way it is and I for one have a choice, don't read them, anyofthem! The press in NZ is diabolical and there is not one journalist I would trust, period.
In which case, you do yourself a a great disservice as a citizen, and essentially ensure your own ignorance.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
Stephen Judd: Papers like the Guardian are distinguished by ownership via a trust or foundation with a charter stating the values they must adhere to.
The big problem is that The Guardian is emphatically in the midst of its most influential and important era -- and losing 50 million quid a year.
The lifestyle titles that usually cover the flagship's losses aren't as profitable as they used to be either. It's a bloody worry.
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For interest: I tweeted a bit of this but thought it worth a broader explanation.
Why Murdoch should never be allowed to get anywhere near a BSkyB takeover.
ITVDigital launched a new satellite channel in the UK, they used the same encrypted card system used by a major French broadcaster Canal plus. These guys are in competition with Sky, and they bought the rights to National league football at considerable cost for distribution on their network starting in 2011. By mid 2000 the European markets were flooded with cracked decoder cards for Canal plus and ITVDigital.
The only group known to have cracked these cards was an Israeli branch of NDS a tech company owned by Newscorp. It appears that they were paid to do this.
Meanwhile a British arm of NDS gave funds to a site called the House of Ill Compute where the code for cracking the cards appeared. This seems to have been facilitated by a guy called Ray Adams a “retired” Met Policeman (then head of security at NDS) with a controversial past. Adams paid another guy called Lee Gibling who ran the House of Ill Compute who “disappeared” at the time when all this kicked off and Canal+ started litigation.
The result of the cracked code was catastrophic for British Football because without fee paying subscribers ITVDigital had no hope of paying clubs the fees they owed. Football clubs would have undoubtedly spent much of their money in advance. Elsewhere ITVDigital was under pressure from BSB allegedly at the behest of guess who?
ITVDigital was in the hands of the liquidators by 2002.
It appears that 2002 for Rupert.
This is the sort of stuff that makes movies but no one really wants the bad guy to win do they ?
These links are all to the Guardian I’m afraid they are the only ones could find.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2002/mar/13/media.citynews
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2002/mar/13/piracy.news
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2002/mar/18/security.hacking
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2002/apr/12/newscorporation.broadcasting
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2002/dec/22/newscorporation.observerbusiness
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Stephen Judd, in reply to
. Maybe there is a model here that could / should be encouraged if not legally mandated. Or maybe we should dig into our own pockets and make one.
I am ready to repeat the call I made here a couple of years ago to create a charitable trust to fund public interest journalism. Gimme a day or two, I have a draft already that I need to tidy up.
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
Why Murdoch should never be allowed to get anywhere near a BSkyB takeover.
Holy shit. And yet the TPPA will still insult our collective intelligence, knowing that backyard file-sharers would be far easier targets than news conglomerates.
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The Fox News website ran a leading headline about fractions in the Republican party
for a short while today. They never do that. Coincidence? -
the Slapper from Wapping...
...was explicitly threatened by Rebekah Brooks with having their private lives turned inside out...
It all makes you wonder just what Rebekah Brooks has on Rupert and James, they are distressingly supportive of someone who seems to have destroyed a major asset?
Maybe hard man (and ex-hubby and punchbag) Ross Kemp warned them about her right hook...
Look out for a new hard hitting TV Doco Ross Kemp on Fleet Street
If I was her, I wouldn't be going for any midnight swims off the back of the Murdoch's luxury yacht, any time soon... -
Ian Dalziel, in reply to
I am ready to repeat the call I made here a couple of years ago to create a charitable trust to fund public interest journalism.
Great idea...
Something like the Paul Foot Award would be good - with a blog category as well, natch!
Maybe this trust could take over the NZPA's infrastructure - rather than reinvent the wheel - though that is a much larger vehicle...I also note that TVNZ sailed into unchartered waters last night - and (insert preferred Deity here) save all who sail on her, or passively watch her founder in a sea of ennui...
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James Butler, in reply to
The Fox News website ran a leading headline about fractions in the Republican party for a short while today. They never do that.
What? Basic numeracy? Agreed.
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I am ready to repeat the call I made here a couple of years ago to create a charitable trust to fund public interest journalism. Gimme a day or two, I have a draft already that I need to tidy up.
Terrific idea.
In the early days of TPM, Josh would occasionally call for donations, for specific projects/hires. Big audience. It seemed to work pretty well (and no need these days- it's a mini-empire :))
Probably not what you have in mind, but maybe you should talk to Gordon Campbell/Werewolf.
Creating content is one side: it needs a dynamic method of sharing/disseminating it as well. www.publicinterest.tv is gone, but you could snaffle publicinterest.net.nz ... -
merc,
Time for PAStv has come.
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
Time for PAStv has come.
Al Gore's CurrenTV offers a template to follow.
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Sacha, in reply to
All you need now is a friendly billionaire
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Who are not common in ANZ - or generally broad community-minded anywhere.
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the dirty digger's hole...
one wonders if Murdoch has pulled the strings of the Chipping Norton set - and lo, Cameron is now going to cut the country adrift before he is taken to the Tower - well that may be over-reaching, but we'd best watch what happens carefully, as our own Cameron-Clone - John Key - will embark on a similar path of stripping away public ownership of essentials if re-elected...ordure, ordure...
you also have to wonder what the other Shareholders in News Corporation think of this rancid imbroglio - how are Kingdom Holdings - 7%- (which is basically Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal of the Saudi Royal Family - check out what he owns or has shares in...) taking this particular clusterf*ck? -
Joe Wylie, in reply to
how are Kingdom Holdings - 7%- (which is basically Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal of the Saudi Royal Family - check out what he owns or has shares in...) taking this particular clusterf*ck?
He already appears to have survived a fatwa.
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I am ready to repeat the call I made here a couple of years ago to create a charitable trust to fund public interest journalism. Gimme a day or two, I have a draft already that I need to tidy up.
Genuinely interested in this notion- though of course it’s up to you, Stephen, to push it or not.
Anyway- you have til tomorrow or the kitten gets it. :) -
This may or may not be relevant here
http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2011/07/we-need-the-new-news-environment-to-be-chaotic/
The business environment for newspapers continues to be grim. Pew recently reported that advertising revenue rebounded in 2010 for all forms of media, except newspapers.* This might just be a matter of transitioning from print to digital revenues but for the fact that the market values a print reader far more than a digital one. The more or less official label for this problem is “analog dollars to digital dimes”; because of the enormous difference in assumed value per reader, lost value from print is not made up for by gains in digital readership.
The ‘analog dollars to digital dimes’ problem doesn’t actually seem to be a problem. It seems to be a feature of reality.
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Having one kind of institution do most of the reporting for most communities in the US seemed like a great idea right up until it seemed like a single point of failure. As that failure spreads, the news ecosystem isn’t just getting more chaotic, we need it to be more chaotic, because we need multiple competing approaches. It isn’t newspapers we should be worrying about, but news, and there are many more ways of getting and reporting the news that we haven’t tried than that we have -
Stephen Judd, in reply to
Rob, email me and I'll send you a draft now.
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Islander, in reply to
Whew! Kitten saved!
Actually, this is something I’m interested in also – but look forward to seeing the public version- -
So the Met Police Commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson has just resigned
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...and Brooks gets a whopping
3.5 million pound payout...
the wages of sin, eh?
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