{"id":2343,"date":"2011-02-14T07:41:57","date_gmt":"2011-02-13T20:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?p=2343"},"modified":"2011-02-14T07:41:57","modified_gmt":"2011-02-13T20:41:57","slug":"more-australian-government-media-content-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2011\/02\/more-australian-government-media-content-control\/","title":{"rendered":"More Australian Government Media Content Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hot on the heels of the divisive mandatory internet filtering debate in this country, comes yet more government control being exerted over the content of media &#8211; with the news that the government will require the next operator of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/australianetwork.com\/\">Australia Network<\/a> to provide advance notice of programming guides to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dfat.gov.au\/\">Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade<\/a> (DFAT), and even allow programming decisions to be made by the foreign minister, currently former prime minister, Kevin Rudd.<\/p>\n<p><center>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"80%\" cellpadding\t=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n  <tr>\n    <td class=\"linkbox\"><a class=\"linkboxtext\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/business\/media\/rudd-to-vet-asia-tv-guides\/story-e6frg8mf-1226005380659\">Rudd to Vet Asia TV Guides<\/td>\n  <\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/center>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Potential tenderers for a new 10-year contract to run this service will have to provide DFAT with a programming schedule for every timeslot over a seven-day cycle, which will be assessed by the department to determine whether it represents an &#8220;intelligent mix of the best of Australian content&#8221;.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This includes news and current affairs where DFAT will require a detailed quality and quantity breakdown to enable it to decide whether this and business programming supports the government&#8217;s regional objectives.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There already is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/2010\/08\/filtering-not-mandatory-sometimes\/\">double standards in regards to their filtering policy, and television standards<\/a> anyway, but this basically sounds to me like the Australia Network now has the potential to become an international propaganda machine for the government, right?  <\/p>\n<p>Who else agrees?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot on the heels of the divisive mandatory internet filtering debate in this country, comes yet more government control being exerted over the content of media &#8211; with the news that the government will require the next operator of the Australia Network to provide advance notice of programming guides to the Department of Foreign Affairs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[624,384,404],"class_list":["post-2343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-media","tag-nocleanfeed","tag-openinternet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}