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dc.contributor.authorForde, Susan
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T11:28:08Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T11:28:08Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/66876
dc.description.abstractThe ongoing criticism in the major news media of Communication Minister Stephen Conroy's very soft and watery proposed media reforms is predictable but still breathtaking. Conroy's proposals go nowhere near the recommendations of the Finkelstein Inquiry to introduce an independent News Media Standards Council; and nowhere near the more sweeping changes recommended by the Convergence Review to take Australian media law into a converged, forward-thinking era. Instead, Conroy has - for the most part - bowed to early criticism and concern from media owners, CEOs, editors-in-chief and conservative commentators and opted for some tame options which sound purposeful but will deliver little. Despite this, the roar about "Soviet-style" reforms, restrictions on freedom of speech, and government bureaucratic "tsars" running the media are deafening. It is a great irony that one of the most important institutions in our society which exists to protect democracy - the news media - consistently sees itself as above scrutiny, requiring no monitoring except from within its own ranks.
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dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherThe Conversation Media Group
dc.publisher.placehttp://theconversation.com/media-reform-hysterical-attacks-on-weak-conroy-suggestions-tell-the-real-
dc.publisher.urihttp://theconversation.com/media-reform-hysterical-attacks-on-weakconroy-suggestions-tell-the-real-story-12770
dc.relation.ispartofbookorjournalThe Conversation
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dc.subject.fieldofresearchCommunication and Media Studies not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchJournalism Studies
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode200199
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode190301
dc.titleMedia reform: hysterical attacks on weak Conroy suggestions tell the real story
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gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences
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