Junk for Code

politics and media

The bottom figure is John Howard, the PM of Australia. The middle figure is Alan Jones, the king of breakfast radio in Sydney. The top figure is Professor David Flint, Chair of the regulator, Australian Broadcasting Authority.

Alan Moir

Cosy inner relationships huh? From the political end of the relationship it's called media management.

The cartoon exposes the way that Professor Flint is the modern partisan authority chairman. It shows the political reality behind the appearance of a neutral regulatory authority that is independent of government and acts to protect the public interest against the self-interest of media corporations.

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Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at May 1, 2004 02:39 PM | TrackBack