Anthony Element OAM
Novelist, musician, ex-corporate executive, ex-RAAF.
Ran businesses in Australia, China and Thailand.
General troublemaker.
Author of 'Absence of Doubt' and 'The Santiago Gospel', both published by DWPress and available in Kindle and paperback on Amazon.
Contact: anthony@observationpoint.com.au-
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An Open Letter To Kim Williams
Dear Kim, Not a bad effort yesterday morning. I thought the soviet reference a shade hyperbolic, but then, if you run an organisation that includes the Daily Telegraph, I suppose that subtlety isn’t going to be your long suite. In fact, your … Continue reading
Media Regulation…Maybe Not Such a Bad Idea
That sound you can hear, the one that’s pitched slightly higher than a tree load of startled cockatoos but is marginally less harmonious, that’s the sound of the media howling with fury at the suggestion that some sort of industry … Continue reading
Posted in Media
Tagged Australia, Media, media landscape, media regulation, Media speak
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Further Upheavals in Australia’s Media Landscape
This morning, in a move guaranteed to reshape Australia’s media landscape, Ms Pristina Tryinhard, the wealthiest woman in Goondiwindi Shire, bought the Esk Global Mail. In an interview, I asked why she would buy a newspaper that hadn’t made any … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural~Societal, Global Warming, Media
Tagged Australian media, Gina Rhinehart, Global Warming, media landscape
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The Media’s Dilemma? A Case of both barrels, right behind the big toe
Before I begin, let me observe that any self respecting episode of foot shooting invariably includes a strong element of irony. Now, to the matter at hand. In a previous professional incarnation, while, for my sins, studying Marketing, I learned that a business has two … Continue reading