Major Smokescreen
DANGER, WATCH FOR AGENDAS HIDDEN
Surely all this garbage about leadership challenges is covering up some very nasty plans the Australian Government is sneaking past so we don’t notice! All the media has been sucked into this furfy too by giving the leadership so much coverage (or are there undeclared vested interests here too?)
The media ownership laws being rushed through need your attention by contacting the federal politicians and informing them that we are not happy with their nasty plans. If they succeed, the only people to benefit will be the enormously rich media owners and their huge corporations. The public will again be dudded because the politicians think we are too stupid to realise what is happening. The pollies must think that they will get favours from the media bosses for the next election by doing this enormous favour or more foolishly, that they can control foreign media owners.
Media in this country is very limited in its views because of limited ownership, limited sources and us being prepared to accept low standards from all types of media. If more foreign ownership and further concentration of ownership are allowed, we will have no comparisons to draw as all sources will report with the same bias or views. Just compare the current TV coverage of events between free to air stations to see this point.
ACTION NEEDED BY YOU NOW:-
Phone, fax, write and email federal politicians and complain about these media plans. Ministers, back benchers or any other government politician you can contact would help the cause. National Party members may have access to the right political levers. The cabinet had already rubber stamped this action, so we must stop it in the parliament before the politicians convince themselves that we approve this crazy action.
THE ALTERNATIVE:-
Can you imagine what could happen if only a couple of foreign owners control the content of all we read and all that we are shown on TV? Even now it seems that the attitude of TV producers is that if they have no footage to show of an incident, then it did not happen! This is, in effect, censorship of what we are permitted to view publicly.
Further extension of this idea is scary in the extreme. It smacks of "1984" and would be similar to totalitarian control by the media. Would the foreign media owners then set the agenda for all of Australia? In the future could other governments keep this new situation balanced for us?
Do the only thing practical at this late stage – worry a politician!
Any of your local politicians’ staff will provide contact details for other politicians who should be contacted about this important matter.
Maxine and Peter
Surely all this garbage about leadership challenges is covering up some very nasty plans the Australian Government is sneaking past so we don’t notice! All the media has been sucked into this furfy too by giving the leadership so much coverage (or are there undeclared vested interests here too?)
The media ownership laws being rushed through need your attention by contacting the federal politicians and informing them that we are not happy with their nasty plans. If they succeed, the only people to benefit will be the enormously rich media owners and their huge corporations. The public will again be dudded because the politicians think we are too stupid to realise what is happening. The pollies must think that they will get favours from the media bosses for the next election by doing this enormous favour or more foolishly, that they can control foreign media owners.
Media in this country is very limited in its views because of limited ownership, limited sources and us being prepared to accept low standards from all types of media. If more foreign ownership and further concentration of ownership are allowed, we will have no comparisons to draw as all sources will report with the same bias or views. Just compare the current TV coverage of events between free to air stations to see this point.
ACTION NEEDED BY YOU NOW:-
Phone, fax, write and email federal politicians and complain about these media plans. Ministers, back benchers or any other government politician you can contact would help the cause. National Party members may have access to the right political levers. The cabinet had already rubber stamped this action, so we must stop it in the parliament before the politicians convince themselves that we approve this crazy action.
THE ALTERNATIVE:-
Can you imagine what could happen if only a couple of foreign owners control the content of all we read and all that we are shown on TV? Even now it seems that the attitude of TV producers is that if they have no footage to show of an incident, then it did not happen! This is, in effect, censorship of what we are permitted to view publicly.
Further extension of this idea is scary in the extreme. It smacks of "1984" and would be similar to totalitarian control by the media. Would the foreign media owners then set the agenda for all of Australia? In the future could other governments keep this new situation balanced for us?
Do the only thing practical at this late stage – worry a politician!
Any of your local politicians’ staff will provide contact details for other politicians who should be contacted about this important matter.
Maxine and Peter
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