Open Letter to OUR Elected Federal Government
Representatives
From a 'Voter' to our 'Elected Federal Government
Representatives',
Media Reform Pub Poll
Have you seen this excellent & thorough explanation of
exactly what the reforms are and how they will affect the media?
"Explainer: Conroy’s proposed new media
laws" by Martin Hirst Associate Professor Journalism &
Media at Deakin University?
I appreciate that you are most likely receiving an awful lot of
correspondence in regard to this proposed legislation. I
also understand that not a lot of time has been allowed for
it. Please, seriously consider allowing the legislation to
go through as it is in the best interests of the PUBLIC,
Australian Voters.
It is not perfect obviously and in my opinion does not go far
enough, though as someone who has previously tried to make
complaints with the Press Council, I can assure you, that as a
member of the public they are impossible to deal with and the
public themselves are not treated with any respect &
consistently given the run around in regard to the basis of the
complaint. Yet it seems that other media companies &
politicians can get satisfaction from the Press Council?
They are not supposed to be just an umpire for internal media
spats, they should also be listening to the public and they are
not. In fact, it is easier to deal with a telco than the
Press Council, if you are a member of the Public, so what does
that tell you.
We have independent umpires in many facets of business,
Ombudsmen, ACMA , even the likes of the RBA, none of those
industries have fallen over? The Television stations have
not fallen over. The hysterical nature of the News Ltd
papers alone in the past few days are the strongest indicator
that you need to vote for this legislation. I would also
suggest you review the Senate Enquiry held yesterday
afternoon. Mr Williams of News Ltd did not answer any
question that had anything to do with the ‘public’ at all, was
all about his business & his nose out of joint as he was not
consulted, nor should he have been, Government should not be
going hat in hand to big business for legislation changes, MP’s
& Senators work for us, the public, and as far as we are
concerned, Mr Williams is only ONE voter.
I also ask that you be very aware of the opposition claim in
regard to diversity in media and the tossing out of ‘the
internet’ gives diversity. This is very very cute on behalf
of them, any IT expert will tell you that the number of people
who are getting their news from the Internet is negligible and
not a factor at all as yet, if that was the case, the News Ltd
papers would be charging heaps for each of their online papers,
which they are not! Saying that the Television has
diversity in news is also dodgy, every single morning news show
(which have massive ratings) will repeat more than once, ‘What is
on the front page of the newspapers’, so even then the message
from print press is spread further.
These 2 companies, Fairfax & News Ltd have the power to bring
down Governments & change public policy with their campaigns
which are against their own business interests. They need
to be reined in. We need more diversity in this country (it
is a joke if you look overseas) and we need the Press Council to
do their job and it is clear that we need an Independent
adjudicator above them to make them do it!
Please, seriously, in this debate played out in the media there
has been little attention paid to the actual PUBLIC! If you
care about you’re electorate and the voters in this country,
support Media Reform.
Yours sincerely,
Noely
www.YaThink.com.au
email: seriously@yathink.com.au
Twitter: @YaThinkN
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NOTE: If you are reading this as a visitor to my
blog & would like to do similar to me and contact people you
think would support this reform - or not, this is a democracy
still after all - please visit Australians For Honest
Politics who have a list of MP's & Senators to
contact. I would also suggest you contact you're own
Federal MP to give him or her feedback as well :)
Other articles in regard to this issue from NON
News Ltd media, as no balanced articles at all to be found in
this all-encompassing media group, though of course, if someone
does happen to come across a News Ltd article that is not abusive
towards reform or even is balanced about this issue please feel
free to let me know and I will add to the list below:
The men of TV and a media regulation
stitch-up
The media must embrace reform to
survive
The day News Ltd supported newspaper
regulation
Free Media VS Free Market
Poor planning has doomed Labor's media
reform
Just so you know, the government’s media
reform case in Parliament today
Has Chairman Rupert entirely lost his
marbles?
News Corporation has no-one to blame but
itself
Australian media shoots 'Own' Goal on
Media Reform
Bad chemistry in media battle
@albericie debates @chriskkenny on media self regulation
reform: And the winner is?
A diversity of views
Murdoch fears another Murdoch
Uncivil and unbalanced: the Australian
media can’t be trusted to report on industry reform
The worst government ever? Not
yet
Six-step approach for genuine media regs
reform
Gillard's Media Fight
Media reform could save victims of
misinformation … like my grandfather
will add more as I find them...
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— No Fibs Geek (@geeksrulz) March 19, 2013