Due to an unforseen bout of tonsillitis I missed the week 6
lecture and instead watched it from my bed, on my computer, in the grips of a
fever – just when I thought lectures couldn’t get any more fun… Still being
sick I’m in no mood for pleasantries and really just want to knock over the
main points.
The lecture had a large focus on discussing the Australian
media landscape; who owns what. While I did have some idea of the properties of
the different major corporations I had no notion of quite how vast their
spread. It seems as if there are no independent media companies with enough
scope to make an indent into the media landscape. I don’t pretend to understand
the system but it seems to me like this is a recipe for monopolisation which in
turn can lead to censorship so that we only receive the information which
“they” want us to.
The other main point of discussion was in relation to this
notion of corporate dominance, looking into the rolls of public verse
commercial media. For this the interests of commercial and public media were
discussed. While it seemed comforting to know not all media is governed by
profit margins public media still has an agenda or else it wouldn’t exist.
If there is an overriding message from lecture 6 it is that
all media is run with an underlying purpose which is never just to entertain or
inform the viewer.
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