The New Media Laws: Loud Voices with the Ear of Government
The so-called ‘voices’ test in the new laws to allegedly protect diversity in Australia media is a nonsense. Where there were about a dozen ‘voices’ in each of the Sydney and Melbourne markets until these changes, that can now officially be reduced to five. They will be loud voices too and no doubt will have the ear of government. I live in hope that this threat to diversity of views, access to traditional media and undoubted cultural erosion will be countered at a local level by outlets such as community radio and the growing number of independent community news-sheets.
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