Media control in North Korea: a proposal by senior advisors
CCHU9047 The press, the public and the public sphere. In the video, we discuss about the downsides and benefits of media freedom to North Korea and the poten...
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The proposed changes would prompt an industry reorganisation between television networks, radio stations and newspapers. Photo: Louie Douvis
Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull has upset Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation and its pay television joint venture Foxtel by proposing a cherry-picked media reform policy that has driven a rift through the industry.
Mr Turnbull's recommendation that the governmentabolish Keating-era ownership restrictions has beenwelcomed by a slew of media executives including WIN Corp owner Bruce Gordon and Greg Hywood, the chief executive of Fairfax Media, owner of The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald.
The proposed changes would prompt an industry reorganisationbetween television networks, radio stations and newspapers, enabling them to better compete with unregulated digital entrants such as Google and Netflix.
But News Corp and Foxtel were blindsided by the recommendations, which Mr Turnbull put in private to Prime Minister Tony Abbott last week seeking approval to put the policy to cabinet.
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Mr Turnbull told Mr Abbott that he had found a broad consensus in the industry for the abolition of the "reach rule", which stops the metropolitan free-to-air networks, Nine, Seven and Ten, merging with regional affiliates by limiting audience reach to 75 per cent. He also said there was broad industry support to scrap the "two-out-of three rule", which stops any one group owning more than two of a newspaper, commercial TV licence or radio licence in a major market.
However, he denied Foxtel's request to show more sporting events at the expense of free-to-air television, a move that would be unpopular with the electorate. He also proposed changes that could mean Foxtel is effectively forced to pay commercial free-to-air TV networks a fee to retransmit their signals.
News Corp Australia chief executive Julian Clarke said he agreed with most other media bosses that cross-media ownership restrictions were outdatedin the digital age.
But Mr Clarke added: "We do not support anychange if it involves cherry picking some policies and only changingthese."
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Jewish Media Control USA in 2012
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An online media content analyst and trainer, Stella Omepa, has warned that the society faces enormous risk except the posting of harmful contents on social media is brought under control.
She said that unwholesome contents are having negative impacts on the psychological development of children.
Omepa raised the concern in a paper delivered at a workshop organised by the National Orientation Agency for bloggers and social media users in Lagos.
She pointed out cyber bullying as a major challenge facing the younger generation, noting that children who are exposed to such contents would grow up to embrace bullying as a way of life.
Omepa said it was sad that the older subscribers who should have set a more acceptable standard of interaction on social media platforms have also taken to cyber bullying. This, she said, is sending a wrong signal to teenage users.
Cyber bullying is not peculiar to young adults. Even older people suffer the same effects. Celebrities now dread the Internet because of lack of respect for their private lives and the negative comments made by Internet users who are hardly aware of their stories or struggles.
People have used Photoshop to do unthinkable things, sometimes drawing a link between an important personality and an animal. And before you know it, such images begin to trend on social media sites. I doubt if anyone would ever be able to comprehend the pain such a person would go through when he stumbles on the picture, she said.
The expert said it was important parents and guardians started protecting their children against cyber bullying before we start recording heartbreaking scenarios. To do this, she advised, the society should start correcting the impression among kids that they could say anything they wish without facing the consequence.
Omepa also pointed out that social media had the potential of impeding the intellectual growth of early users. She observed that most students now rely too much on the Internet for solutions at the expense of their intellectual development. This, she noted, prevented them from engaging in rigorous mental work to find unique solutions.
She continued, Estimating the number of younger Nigerians that own smartphones is very challenging, but it is glaring that the demand for stylish smartphones by younger Nigerians is on the rise due to the special features that enable them access the Internet. The dangers of exposure to harmful contents are also becoming a source of worry.
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Stories about media control and repression in China are legiondaily propaganda directives, stories spiked, journalists firedbut Chinese officials do not always reveal how they really feel about the press. What is the media, anyway, to a Chinese Communist Party apparatchik?
Now, in their own words (which sometimes employ vulgarity) these official say the media is a tool to be used: a mouthpiece, an obedient servant, and a lapdogand the expectations even seem to extend to the foreign media.
In July 2009, a reporter with China National Radio, a state-run broadcaster, was seeking to interview officials working on the Zhengzhou Urban and Rural Planning Bureau, during a series of events the bureau was holding. In one of the public meetings, a citizen raised an issue with the construction project. So when the reporter finally got his chance to meet with Li Chengxiang, the deputy chief of the planning bureau at the time, he asked him about these grievances.
And then the reporter received an earful: Do you speak for the Chinese Communist Party or are you going to speak for the people? Li Chengxiang said, angrily, according to Sina, a major Chinese news portal.
The presumption was that officials with the press, in particular the state press, have a one-way responsibility: to propagandize the policies of the state.
Observant readers were quick to point out that Lis question also contains an important theoretical discrepancy: by asking whether the reporter was representing either the Party or the people, he was implying that the interests of the two diverged. While that is indeed mostly the case in China, Party doctrine states clearly that the Party is actually the ultimate representative of the people.
The press pass in many places acts as an amulet for journalists, allowing them easy entry and exit from places not usually reserved for the public. But it doesnt always work that way when dealing with Chinese officials.
In April 2010, when a reporter with the state-affiliated Legal Daily, presented his press pass to Zhang Shi, a public resource official in Zhejiang Province, Zhang simply said: This is useless.
The reporter pressed further. Why do I have to accept your interview? Zhang responded. I refuse to be interviewed. And you cant do jack about it.
Li asked How could it be useless? Its issued by the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television, the agency that is in charge of media control. The arguing did him no good, however.
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How Chinese Officials View the Press