Media for the rich?

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Thoughts from Mr Etherhead on media ownershipssss....:

ABC The Drum Unleashed:
The rich, the powerful and media ownership
http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/41510.html

Media for the rich?

Delusions of grandeur are part-and-parcel with wealth, perhaps the biggest delusions being that they can manipulate lives and minds enough ad-infinitum, to maintain and increase their opulence, and that they are able to be certain that THEIR oligarchic upclubbery is undefeatable, or will never, of it's own weight, fall.

Murdoch and probably James Packer have agenda, global agenda, which is why media becomes so valuable to the super-rich.

But Rinehart is merely excessing in her power to secure her Queendom's future, playing along with the other more serious media moguls and cartels to stay immune from their vitriol.

The best way to undermine those oligopoly moguls' influence is to lobby for a major increase in broadcasting licences for TV radio and other media.

10 Community Radio licenses etc, and even TV, per 100,000 people demographic, then let the market in quality local media sort out the better performers.

Media is at a stage, from which we cannot retreat, to the sought-for centralised control the Murdochs and Packers enjoyed and still desire.

The more they, and Rinehart, spend to re-win control, the more the public will Resist.

Sadly, the issue of democratized media will be lost in the mediated outrage, and trivial issues and lobby groups will overtake the underlying call and need for a liberated media, and the liberal accessibility, actively supported and funded by government, to the technology for local output.

But..., maaaaybeee not...?


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