This opinion piece by Robert Gottliebsen in The Australian newspaper today reports comments made by ACCC Chair, Graeme Samuel, about the future media landscape. Check out this quote:
“It is pretty clear that the internet will be a key driver of the next wave of competition to the current media players, and the markets we have traditionally defined as ‘media’ will change. And the possibility is there for not one but hundreds of new competitors to today’s broadcasters,”
Then there is this from the ACCC website:
We are in the midst of a technological revolution which threatens to make the introduction of television look like a mere blip in the evolution of distribution of news, information and entertainment. The question for regulators and government alike is do these technological developments make many of our existing concerns about media regulation irrelevant?
Read the Samuel speech in full here.
The bandwagon of voices on this topic gets bigger every day.