Category Archives: Media

I Don’t Think So Ten!

Over the last few years, people constantly complain about the amount of advertising the Seven Network puts on during its motor racing telecasts. I don’t actually think it’s too bad, and have shown here and here that the amount is not really all that different than it was 25 years ago, or at any time […]

Another ABC News 24 Fail

Tapping away at my keyboard at work just now, I looked up to the other screen on my desk – (showing some of the outputs of an IPTV solution I am dealing with at the moment) – and I noticed a live prime ministerial press conference on Sky News Australia. It is circled in red […]

Bathurst and Advertising – Again

At this time every year, we hear people moaning about how much advertising is shown during the annual Bathurst 1000 motor race, with “they show too many ads” being the common catch cry. Long time readers of this blog may remember the analysis I’ve done over the years in regards to just how much advertising […]

Spelling Mystery…Unsloved

Stumbled across this impressive piece of proofreading fail via Claudia Aitch at claudiaaitch.wordpress.com: The mystery of Channel Seven’s missing spellchecker is, umm, “unsloved”. Or unsolved. One or the other.

ABC News 72

In a general sense, news tickers at the bottom of the screen on news channels annoy me. They often distract you from what is actually going on on the rest of the screen, and you end up missing what people say. It is even more annoying when the news being reported in the ticker is […]

A Tad Insensitive, Advertiser

Just caught a glimpse of this rather insensitive closing line of an article about the unfortunate death of a local man over the weekend in a workplace accident, in the Geelong Advertiser. Timber Crush Death “Are you the family of the deceased man?” Seriously? Poor form. My thoughts to the family.

The Australian FUDs It Again

There’s been a lot of rumbling, particularly since the 2010 Federal Election, in regards to a perceived media bias against the Australian Labor Party and its policies, particularly from Rupert Murdoch’s News Limited newspapers – most notably The Australian, our “national” paper. For me, their ongoing campaign, especially in the light of the News Of […]

NBN – Commonwealth Guarantee

In this the final instalment of my series on the recently signed Telstra/NBN Co deal, I will highlight what I believe are the interesting and/or important parts of the last of the eight individual agreements – the Commonwealth Guarantee (CG). All descriptions are taken from the Telstra release to the ASX. As a summary, the […]

NBN: The RFD and the ICMD Agreements

In this the sixth and penultimate instalment of my series on the recently signed Telstra/NBN Co deal, I will highlight what I believe are the interesting and/or important parts of the second and third of the agreements between Telstra and the Commonwealth – the Retraining Funding Deed (RFD) and the Information Campaign and Migration Deed […]

NBN: TUSMA Agreement

After a short break – (other commitments have kept me busy for the last week) – here is the next and fifth instalment of my series on the recently signed Telstra/NBN Co deal. Today I will highlight what I believe are the interesting and/or important parts of the first of the agreements between Telstra and […]