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Give today to the Buy Rupert A Sub-Editor Appeal

Submitted by Rick Eyre on August 7, 2009 - 11:05am

Now we know the real reason why Rupert Murdoch wants to charge for access to all his company's websites. He needs the money so that he can employ sub-editors. Then we would no longer see spacebar malfunctions such as this one on the Courier-Mail website this morning. (Provided, of course, we will be able to afford to see them.) AFTERNOON UPDATE: there is now a space between "flights" and "hit".

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Associated Press don't want you to see their content for free. Meanwhile...

Submitted by Rick Eyre on July 25, 2009 - 8:13am

As Associated Press's right hand prepares to implement something that looks suspiciously like spyware to protect their intellectual property, here's a freely-embeddable video made available by AP's left hand via their Youtube channel:

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Oh Voltaire, where art thou?

Submitted by Rick Eyre on June 11, 2009 - 10:47am

It was back in 1976. Graeme Bond, Rory O'Donoghue and their executive producer Maurice Murphy, riding high from the success of the Aunty Jack Show, made a comedy series for the ABC that featured sketches that intentionally pushed the limits of mid-1970s taste. They called it "The Off Show".

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Is this the first charity appeal ever censored for endangering editorial balance?

Submitted by Rick Eyre on January 28, 2009 - 10:36am

Outrage, rightly, for the decision of the BBC and Sky News to not screen the following public service announcement from the Disasters Emergency Committee promoting its Gaza Crisis Appeal. Is it editorially biased to promote a charitable appeal for the victims of war?

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The future of newspapers arrives in Brisbane

Submitted by Rick Eyre on March 8, 2007 - 12:16pm

Yesterday, Fairfax launched brisbanetimes.com.au, the website of their new newspaper, the Brisbane Times. The thing is, however, that there is no print newspaper called the Brisbane Times. The website is the newspaper.

Anything that chips away at the Murdoch monopoly in Brisbane is welcome. The question is: will the arrival of the Brisbane

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Is that the cricket, or is your News Limited?

Submitted by Rick Eyre on December 5, 2006 - 8:09pm

Amusing little stoush hotting up between Cricket Australia and the Murdoch Media Monolith over intellectual property rights to Test highlights.

The Murdochariat are showing three minutes of video highlights each day on the Fox Sports website, despite Cricket Australia issuing a fatwa saying they are only allowed thirty seconds. Murdochistas at News Ltd assert that they are making "fair use" of the footage for reportage of a news event.

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