ABC’s Background Briefing team has produced an interesting program on news ownership. It’s worth a listen if newspapers and news interest you.
ABC’s Background Briefing team has produced an interesting program on news ownership. It’s worth a listen if newspapers and news interest you.
Murdoch?
since fox news manipulate real news. telegraph full of BS. He is the real president of the USA
the younger generations don’t believe in mainstream media anymore. they cause their own downfall sooner or later.
Hence the major ethical conflict I underwent while deciding whether or not to become a newsagent. In other words, an agent for ‘(N)ews’…
It’s not a matter of “who owns the news” as a matter of who has the right to “control” the news. Murdoch jnr echoes his Father’s thoughts of the 30’s when radio repeated print news as a broadcast. Television repeated this throughout the 60’s 70’s up to and including now, although to a lesser extent.
Print media through its infrastructure has always been the innovator of “source” re news. Today it is varied however the mainstream journalism still comes from the print variety.
The real problem lies wherein the population is split and like many products there is a widening division in society of usage. Both are “wanted” however not on the same scale.
Distribution is the main cost in getting the “old” product (print media) to the end user. (we know all ablout that don’t we?) The transition from one to the other will probably be closer to 20 years than 5 years before one is by far the largest individual source or condute of news.
Rupert, like his Father Sir Keith, feels the threat, hence the thought of making people pay for obtaining news from his company’s sources.
All in all we’ve got a lot of adjustments left before the print media news as we know it folds.
I think we all woud pay happily for some real journalism! The fluffy stuff we get today is shameful IMHO.
Read the Australian there is not much in the rest I agree.
The OZ is OK but has a tendancy to lean one way. I want, and I think the Australian Democracy demands smart, unbiased, tenacious journalism. I fear we have none.
I think you’ll find that you can relate to one and not another journo in the Oz.ost of it I find economical, not political, however some economics is just politics. However I like the international news and the Wall Street Journal so the local politics doesn’t phase me for neither party is my cup of tea. Politicians are the pitts amen.
Ah, I have fond memories of real newspapers and the old 7.30 report on the ABC, lifting the lid on scandal and corruption. Creating Royal Commissions and the like. Journo’s now (and I have known a few) appear happy just to copy the Press Release. Worse some seem happy to invent a story and worse still it gets run!
all my gossip mags are losing sale , cause customers are sick of them all. no wonder my woman’s day dropped from 350 copies to less than 80 copies.
people still buying telegraph, because of the sport section they want to read, otherwise we can close our shops.
Eric what you say is true. All of the weekly mags are not performing well. The gossip/pictures even the ads are all the same. Customers have lost interest. How many articles can you write about sad Katie or Nicole’s weight loss or keiths battle with the booze. Get some real content into these magazines.
As magazine specialists we have an obligation to actively promote magazines. Sure sales are tough in this market. However, if you are declining greater than 4% year on year you are performing below average.
I would say that there is a fine line between being a magazines specialist and being a magazine dumping ground. We cannot control what arrives, and then we need to pay huge amounts to return the shit that does not sell. We cannot even reduce the weight of what is returned because the publisher decides if they want the whole or only part of the mag back.
An example is today we recieved more RLWeeks when we still had 20 on the shelf from WED, these extras were so called “sales based replenishment”, what a load of crap, it is overload yet again.
Luke,
I received 1 (one) more RL Week this morning, still have plenty on the shelf. One? What the!!??
i have a file for 1 more RLW but no magazine ,is this an error and if not why would they send 1 more copy ?
We too recieved one more copy today….???