Brindlestyle

Global economics, news-media and cultural identity.

Media Reform rose quickly in the Brindle Style stats, as the single-most important area of need in the community.  There's no accounting the things a fella will do when there's a quid in the weave, but no measuring the miracles ordinary people create each day with purpose, meaning and intent.

 Representatives from the arts, being specialist in communication.  The high-level of excellence, imagination and commitment required of artists at work is also needed in areas of socio-political debate and leadership.

 FreePress.Net  a U.S based consumer protection group

"Free Press believes that media reform is crucial not just for creating better news and entertainment, but to advancing every issue you care about. A vibrant, diverse and independent media is the cornerstone of a healthy democracy."

Screen writers and actors get grumpy in California.       CULTURE JAMMING

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Maiia: Australia's diverse regional populations maintain a valuable living culture.  While cultural identity and sense of nation-hood are high on govt agenda, and I'm all for more singing -  It takes more than the National Anthem to fire /inspire spirit after half a century of commerce-driven media product, pseudo-culture and propoganda. 

Australia's bizarre brand of class-conscious colonialism set the stage to form the Australian media conglomerates the way in media embracing technology. 

Shoulda seen the furore when Murdoch went into Fleet Street in London with the computers and dumped all the typesetters.    Coppers on horse-back floggin the workers with their batons.   Murdoch - Empire Building

The annual Media Reform Conference (U.S) is an excellent resource.  -"Media conglomerates endeavour to protect Special Privilege asserted as property rights and fail to disguise democracy's failure to address conflict between these Property rights and human Rights."  Bill Moyer  key-note speaker 2007 Media Reform Conference.

In Aus' -Helen Coonan - Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, “It is clear to the Government and to much of the industry that the media landscape is changing rapidly, and a flexible system is needed to allow media companies to adapt and prosper in the new digital environment."  (my italics -Maiia)

“A far-sighted approach is needed to meet the needs of consumers now, and to provide the benefits of new technology into the future."  which seems a forbidding task with developments so patently un-predictable.