If that was or is true Anti, then every subject is the same.
Are we fleas any more productive in debating anything.
We could expand this to cover very much more, future generations will look back and see this as the time of change, the media is in flux.
It struggles to stay viable, it is not under every arm on the way to work any more and that hurts it.
Hurts it by reducing and replacing the way advertisers spend there dollars.
We are living at the start of very real change.
Not related to the inquiry in Australia, or England.
The English one, this mornings papers say will be more than 12 months long.
Ours a face washing with a cooling rag, no party other than greens is brave enough to take Murdock on.

Belly, this site and others like it produces no news, yet it discusses issues that are raised in the mainstream press almost exclusively. It republishes items that have mostly appeared in the mainstram press in the articles section.

I don't decry any of that, but I think my comment is very apposite. On reflection though, I'm not sure that fleas are a good analogy: they tend to be able to jump on and off their host as the whim takes them. Perhaps the tick is a better metaphor.

Belly, you could help but show your partisan colours.

Firstly when I make a statement defending free speech that is general and applicable to all parties, you immediately accuse me of bias. I can only assume it is because you support the right of the government to sanitize the media.

People buy papers and listen to radio not only because they want information, but because they want to be entertained, and often they are interested in particular topics and viewpoints. The papers and radio stations that provide this get the sales and ratings. Allan Jones is the most popular presenter for a reason.

Murdoch's press dominates the print media because of what it is, and because people want to read it, not for any other reason. The call to reduce the holdings while punishing RM for not being Labor friendly is unlikely to have much effect on what is reported.

This media inquiry is already painting Australia in a bad light on top of the poor rating on media freedom it already has with the attempt to censor the internet.

Belly,
A couple of posts ago you said people hated Gillard and indicated this was being promoted by the media.

I would suggest you are wrong. People are contempous of Gillard, and her government, simply because of incompedence.

You may be aware there is an email circulating that lists 50 Labor Lemons. Now you may well be able to take issue with a couple on the list, but with such a record how could people be anything else but contempous and you cannot blame the media for that.

It is all the governments own doing. Surely you do not expect the media not to report these stuff ups or comment about them.

Shadow Minister Sir you first.
As my post history will show I am a Labor voter.
It however will show thousands of words in hundreds of posts, that insult and bitterly attack? MY PARTY.
Any search, intense as it may be will find such in yours.
No poster, not ever shows More fixed and sometimes warped views.
You must remember glass houses.
Anti, hold on, could I not say your often seen hurt at your experiences in the family court are flea bites too.
Do we come here expecting to change the world, is free speech only on subjects some approve of.
Banjo, you know of my opinion on Gillard, you have seen My insults toward policy's and people in my party.
I believe, News International, Rupert Murdock, his father before him, use their papers to promote their views.
And in 2007 it was Kevin Rudd who carried their handkerchief.
Bias? can you think I a near out cast from my life's work because I continue to demand leadership change,explanations for the NSW right, My faction, drowning my party in both the state and federal, .
Policy's like cash for clunkers, can you think if I think differently on an issue it is bias?
MATEEE! I promise, true, I do, Abbott is going to be worse, than Gillard, much worse.
Last are those saying I am biased the owners of the portrait I have here.
I look at it often and question again, is comment truth or fabrication.
My portrait is named *The Mirror*

It would be nice to get answers from my concerned questioners to a few things.
Any of you doubt this at least in Britain is about three things.
Phone hacking/bribing police/and too close relation ships with last two governments, sure I missed something
Yes computer hacking in America, helping criminal sabotage of one firm.
14 charged some been in prison, is that of concern.
America has anti trust laws that, if it is found true would kill NI in America,should we know that.
Should we stop our inquiry, if so why.
Do we have a right to know acts England has already found to be criminal are or are not taking place here.
Or do different rules exist for pro conservative press.