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The Australian's media supplement: a lapdog, a watchdog, and attack dog or all of the above?

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posted on 2015-01-01, 00:00 authored by A Dodd, Matthew RicketsonMatthew Ricketson
The modern news media comprise powerful institutions that require the kind of scrutiny they direct towards other influential institutions. The 50th anniversary of The Australian offers a timely opportunity to examine how fairly and accurately the national daily newspaper has reported on its parent company's strengths and weaknesses, and those of its commercial rivals, as well as covering overall trends in the media industry. The article argues that when The Australian's Media section began in 1999, it substantially expanded for readers the available range of news and views about the media. However, the section never reached its advertising revenue targets and in recent years has lost much of the revenue it once had Over the past decade, the section has become increasingly narrow-minded in the range of its coverage, tone and approach.

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Journal

Media international Australia

Volume

157

Pagination

68-78

Location

London, Eng.

ISSN

1329-878X

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2015, Media International Australia

Publisher

Sage Publications

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