Tag Archives: Rupert Murdoch

Location, location, location

By Vincent ODonnell | Published: 30/01/2013
The ABC’s decision to close production in Hobart raises some issues about localism in Australian production for television as well as cinema. Location has ebbed and flowed as an issue in cinema. Mid-Pacific (or mid-Atlantic) was a term applied to productions that stripped away any vestige of identity of the production location, in a hope [...]
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March of the Moguls

By Vincent ODonnell | Published: 16/11/2011
From Thirst to Lust, from regulation of alcohol advertising on TV to classification of pornography in cinema, the challenge to design a regulatory framework for media & communications is still ahead for the Convergence Review Panel and its happy team of elves in the Department of Broadband, Communication and the Digital Economy. Formal public submissions to [...]
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Fit and proper: measuring the man

By Vincent ODonnell | Published: 14/07/2011
Writing in Screen Hub in April, I ended a commentary on the troubles besieging the News of the World, the market-leading ‘Red Top’ tabloid of News Corporations stable of British newspapers as follows: At the moment, the box into which James Murdoch was confident, last week, that the issue [of hacking] had been put, is [...]
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