Dr O’D flies a conceptual helicopter over the whole sorry media regulation imbroglio.
There’s been no mistaking the heavy tramp of the boots of the media moguls since Senator Conroy announced the government’s intentioned reforms to the regulation of all media on a no-compromise basis.
The thunder has been loudest from the legacy media, those still primarily identified with print, businesses that have enjoyed an environment largely free of outside control. And the margins of such control as might be imposed by torts of libel or privacy have long been pushed back by armies of well-paid silks.
