In publicising Laura Tingle’s ‘counselling’, the ABC risks giving the bullies a victory | Margaret Simons

No matter what the national broadcaster does, News Corp and the Australian will keep gnawing at itThere are a few things we can assume the ABC board and executive know only too well.First, News Corporation, and the Australian newspaper in particular, will always attack the ABC. The reasons are a mixture of ideology and commerce. The ABC is a competitor for audience, and more trusted than any News Corporation publication, as repeated studies confirm.Let’s leave aside the daily investment of resources invested in News Corp journalists in search of stories with which to troll the ABC … It’s a little mystifying how a company that has had to pay out an estimated $2bn – so far – in legal settlements for illegally hacking peoples phones, and other invasions of privacy, has set itself up as an arbiter of journalistic standards. While big media corporations seem to have felt no great responsibility to account for what they have done, the ABC’s public funding gives it an obligation to do so, as best it can ... The News Corp campaigns against public broadcasters like the ABC, or for that matter whatever public figure/idea they are pursuing, is relentless and all-embracing. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2024-05-31 15:00:11 UTC ]
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[ Fast Company | 2013-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Toon turns to YA for Simon & Schuster

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[ The Bookseller | 2013-10-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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"L" Is For Formaldehyde Lamb: Damien Hirst Releases His First ABC Book

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[ Fast Company | 2013-10-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Firefox and Chrome give browser plug-ins the cold shoulder

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Can Charlie Redmayne Lead HarperCollins UK to Victory?

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[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-09-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Norse Gods competition for Simon

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Magazine ABCs: Style at Home continues double-digit circulation rise

IPC Media's Style at Home and Ideal Home, and Hearst Magazines UK's Elle Decoration, posted circulation increases in the first half of 2013, as the wider home interests sector posted modest declines. Continue reading at Media Week

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Magazine ABCs: Company falls by more than a third in embattled glossy sector

The women's glossy magazine sector reported continued declines in circulation in the first six months of 2013, with Hearst Magazines UK's Company magazine plummeting 36.7 per cent. Continue reading at Media Week

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Walker Books to give away 70,000 books

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Giving Brazilian Literature Its Due in English and at Frankfurt

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[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-06-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Books' First to Read program will give readers sneak peeks

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[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-06-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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