Australia’s Old Media Oligarchs & Government
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Are These Old Corrupt Political and Media Mates the Real Terrorists?
The entrenched old analog TV monopoly oligarchs have been sitting on vast free digital spectrum worth many billions of dollars given to them by the government. They have for almost 10 years now been abusing this free gift of an invaluable public asset by not using it. Why would any government claiming a public interest benefit priority give digital TV’s worst enemy, vast free public digital spectrum? Because they protect their media mates and propaganda apparatus! Because of their economic abuse of this asset it is now past time it was recovered and sold in international auction to those who legally must use it for digital TV or lose it. Howard and Coonan continue to work for the media oligarchs, (including secretly), not you and the public interest benefit, which is used only for their propaganda. Their ongoing failure, and its enormous cost, to optimise the potentials of iDTV for all Australians is criminal but they will, typically, retire from government with lifetime indexed pensions and also comfortable new careers, while the media will probably continue to call them great Australians.
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“Murdoch Tells PM: Ditch Media Reforms” – But the government has never done any media reform to ditch! They have only made a lot of expensive noise for years and made it look like they were leading. All they have done over a decade and more is protect and perpetuate the status quo. (Which raises the obvious question of course, Why do the majority of Australians keep voting for it? Could they be so thoroughly brainwashed? Australian’s should instead be ditching the political status quo!) However what they have ditched is iDTV for all Australians but thanks to Murdoch and his media mafia mates’ dominance very few Aussies are aware of this and its enormous cost.Murdoch is only partly correct as he is using his media and its access to spineless government parasites to achieve his self-serving priorities. The rest of the handful of Australian media oligarchs are worse than Murdoch of course insofar as they are aligned to prevent free multichannel iDTV to all Australians. But Howard and his cabinet of conveyancing clerks will use Murdoch’s views to cop-out of all media changes. And Australians will with typical apathy accept this, which only helps the old media oligarchs and is what they want. The political status quo can jump in and change any laws that suit their tyranny of power but notice how they persistently avoid changing any media laws that would have the immediate potential to deliver free or near free iDTV to all Australians. The only way this is going to happen is that Australians wake up to what these mealy-mouthed lawyers playing politics are costing them and the nation. Senator Coonan is now claiming there is not enough spectrum to accommodate iDTV. (See below) THIS IS their typical BULLSHIT. Coonan is just another mealy-mouthed lying technology illiterate political parasite (another lawyer so what’s new) taking instructions from the media monopoly, the spineless nameless faceless mandarins and bureaucrats. Like Richard Alston the media monopoly’s politician she replaced, she will retire shortly having achieved nothing for Australian’s and their free iDTV, while claiming to maximise public interest benefits.

PART 1. Old Media Oligarchs & Government Preventing Convergence & Free iDTV! And the proof is available for anyone interested. Although it is possible Aussies now don’t want to hear about it because they would expose themselves as being wooden ducks. Continuing government support of the media oligarchs and their economically inefficient old analog media assets is costing Australians and SME’s tens of billions and they are completely in the dark about it.
Why You Should Not Subscribe To Foxtel Digital TV. Doing so helps fund the media monopoly’s strategy to stifle universal free multichannel iDTV. In other words you should already, according to law and technology, be receiving free or near free multichannel interactive DTV. Murdoch and the handful of entrenched Aussie media oligarchs who own and control the old entrenched analog status quo media assets, are preventing this. Why? It should be obvious by now. They must to save their own arses. If you still can’t figure out why, email us and we will be happy to explain in more detail but in the meantime see some of the following stuff. WE ALSO HAVE A SOLUTION EMAIL:bsqwatch@yahoo.com TO FIND OUT!
The political status quo’s latest support for the media oligarchs is government funding in NSW for a new headquarters for channel 7. Morris Iemma is supposed to be an economist so he should know that what he is doing is a negative sum game. (Notice the academics and media are silent?) His industry assistance mandarins (See http://industryassistance.blogspot.com) are nothing but parasites perpetuating the waste of billions each year to keep their own corrupt empires going forever while using it to fund their own business careers. Again for a few jobs over a couple of years to make the equally rotten to the core NSW labor party mafia look good in the short-term but nothing for the long term except enhancing Kerry Stokes’ control over Channel 7 and the prevention of iDTV. He is part of the media monopoly that is stifling free iDTV for all Aussies. He is also sitting on digital spectrum which is a public asset worth billions but given to him and the other old analog networks for free by the Howard government and their politicized mandarins. Now Iemma is funding this new Channel 7 headquarters while Stokes continues to get more control and ownership of Channel 7. Iemma should explain why the NSW government is funding Stokes. This media oligarch, like the others, is preventing iDTV to all Aussies, and true to type and form the corrupt labor party mafia is using public money to help him. (This should also prove that the political status quo in the form of Howard’s coalition and the labor party and their mandarins are always equally loyal to the media oligarchs.)
WAKE UP FOLKS if you want iDTV and its economic benefits, because once again the corrupt political status quo is using public resources to back these CORPORATE WELFARE parasites and at your expense in more ways than one!
And by the way, How many jobs have these old analog media oligarchs created over the past 10 years? None, and in fact they are losing jobs on a steady basis as they try to save their old networks but again at your expense. (See http://4idtvforum.blogspot.com )

Australians continue to sacrifice a unique and once in a lifetime opportunity to implement and deliver to themselves free multichannel interactive digital television or iDTV. (What would Howard, Coonan and Iemma know about iDTV and its economic benefits? ZIP! They only know about how to do whatever it takes to save their miserable corrupt political arses every 3 years and fuck democracy and the long-term economics.) Aussies, including 1 million plus SME’s are paying for this on a daily basis in various economically significant ways and the cost is growing by the year as the media status quo and their government allies the political status quo, in the form mainly of Howard’s coalition and the labor party (mainly all lawyers), essentially continue with the status quo. No need for diversity and change management with this cohort?Laws were made in 1998 to switch off analog in 2008, although the government, essentially being advised by the media monopoly, new this was impossible but they bend over backwards to keep the media mafia happy. While all this bunch of protected power abusing secretive media thugs can do is fight amongst themselves although notice that none of them will break ranks and push for pure iDTV such as 4iDTV. It’s past time Australian’s asked how come these entrenched protected media thugs, some of them not even resident in the country, are entitled to hold the government issued broadcast licenses in light of their monopoly preventing public interest benefit, universal iDTV and their incestuous executive infighting. Are they in fact fit and proper persons to continue to hold these licences? The answer by now must be an unequivocal NO! Yet again exposing Australia’s parochial self centered mindless management for what it is. They all know that as soon as one breaks ranks and pursues pure digital then they could all be buried. Competition that would maximise public interest benefits in the superior interactive digital realm is not an option for this old entrenched media Mafioso and in fact as the past 10 years proves, they must prevent it to ensure their own survival. Despite how much they infight and attack one another. The gutless government’s latest law change to accommodate them is to require switching over to digital and close analog channels in 2012 instead of 2008. Government has a massive conflict of interest as it puts accommodating an economically inefficient and corrupt media monopoly above the public interest and long-term nation building. Australia’s insidious political status quo can only focus and operate on tenuous 3 year cycles. We can guarantee that by 2012 they will change the time again to accommodate the economically inefficient analog media monopoly. They are also attempting to change the media ownership laws to allow the media mafia to share cross media ownership opportunities and claiming this is in the public’s best interest. More of their Bullshit! Meanwhile the public and maximization of public interest benefits, which includes universal free iDTV is continually being avoided to accommodate the media mafia. You should by now understand the reason for this? The cost is growing and is enormous. But what would Aussie lawyers playing politics and their nameless faceless mandarins know about economics, productivity and efficiency? With a foreign debt of $650 billion and rising, Fuck all obviously! (We could elaborate in detail but we don’t have the resources. While your governments piss away billions, which we could also detail. You owe this state of not being fully informed to the political status quo and their media monopoly feeding you filtered propaganda. Perhaps you think this is a joke?)
No TV network is or can be free of course although in this regard the media and political status quo have done a very efficient job over decades manipulating all Australians to believe that they are the unique recipients and beneficiaries of the worlds greatest free to air TV system (FTA-TV). Bullshit baffles brains? This cost far exceeds any benefits the government and the media monopoly claim the public receives. But as these two vested interests control the media laws and the media delivery systems/networks respectively and jointly, it is of course obvious after 10 years of preventing the implementation and delivery of iDTV to all Australians that they are not going to inform Australians what they are missing out on in terms of both superior entertainment and superior economic benefits.But of course if you were in possession of the formula to turn dirt into gold it is unlikely you would explain it to the public either. And because Australian’s have on a regular basis for decades handed their priceless democracy over to lawyers and bureaucrats the tyranny of the status quo continues.For years Australia has built a media monopoly which has been a license to print money for the owners of licenses on public assets. Digital technologies are the biggest threat to their money machine they have ever had to confront and deal with. Most in the last analysis are digital technology illiterate, like the politicians they use their media systems/networks to remain in power. Keeping them in power means insuring the media laws will never be changed to add to this digital threat. For accommodating the media oligarchs in this way the government of the day – either coalition or labor - gets the equivalent of a propaganda machine at their disposal, which is always favourable to the political status quo. The owners or media oligarchs, (just like Russia’s oligarchs) have used this license to print money to invest in a range of investments both locally and worldwide, including their local banana republic equivalent political status quo and its perpetuation. In addition to Casinos and other tax sheltered real estate for example. Wealth transfer and never wealth creation! They have over decades taken out far more than they have ever put back in, at least in nation building terms, which is an alien concept to them thanks to Australian’s never challenging the constant propaganda. But by far their greatest contribution in this regard is to have prevented universal free iDTV for all Australians. They should not be remembered for their delivery of a few hours of local so-called free sports content but for their concerted stupid and vigorous prevention of iDTV in alliance with an equally stupid and ignorant series of governments only interested in power and control. All of them either labor or coalition with their infrastructure of corrupt mandarins and bureaucracy! This is the main idea of course. Maintain the tyranny of the status quo. Which resembles Russia or China more than it resembles free enterprise open diversified media capitalism.We hope this short item is raising some awareness of the extent of this cost. In other words you must be kept in the dark as fully as possible by both government and the media mafia – and yes most if not all of its union card carrying content producers who build and protect their corrupt little empires within the media monopoly– as to the extent of their duplicitous failure to put the public interest and the nations economic prosperity now and into the future, first.As owners of the only nationwide content delivery systems the media mafia will not use such systems to expose their handiwork and its ultimate economic cost. They have succeeded because 99% of Australians after 10 years of DTV laws already, do not have a clue about iDTV , except what the media status quo wants them to know, let alone the economic significance. Banana Republic Howard and his cabinet mafia, including Senator H. Coonan, Minister for preventing iDTV again, might also therefore be considered as equally in the dark as this 99% although under the circumstances as insiders it would have to be said they are not in the dark about their protection of their media mates, but are ensuring you are. All in the public interest of course and according to this media and government alliance! The labor party is just as culpable and in fact through their narrow self-centered focus over decades, created the environment for the ongoing failure. The media status quo can also be held considerably responsible for making sure Australians have nothing more after 50 years than a choice between 2 vested interest increasingly corrupt political parties and a small army of equally corrupt and counterproductive government-always-knows-best mandarins and a lousy increasingly antiquated media system. Obviously the price of a lack of tolerance for change and consistently choosing the Aussie legal profession to run your democracy! What else could you expect to end up with from an oversupply of mediocre conveyancing clerks? Free iDTV and instead of an unprecedented foreign debt a foreign surplus?

As the media monopoly must continue to suppress the digital TV debate to protect their interests ,Australians are left ignorant of what iDTV is in terms of entertainment and economic benefits. This is understandable as their main or only source of information about it is delivered to them by the media monopoly which is most threatened by digital as they have never been threatened before. However after 10 years they now realize they must either own and/or control all things digital to remain in existence. However this also means holding off anything indefinitely that would in any way deliver iDVT to all Australains, because it could raise their awareness of what they are in fact being denied by their government and the media oligarchs they are enriching. Logically and as the past 10 years have proven, they are not going to inform Australians about what they are missing out on and why. They have assets, investments and profits they will protect at any cost. And this includes your Telstra. (More on Telstra to come...)
Basically these old media networks and that includes “your” ABC and SBS (both have a full multibillion dollar iDTV delivery system taxpayers have funded but is not being used and will eventually conveniently end up in the hands of the old media oligarchs, which is more CORPORATE WELFARE ), are preventing the following multichannel delivery by hogging air wave frequency spectrum and in the process creating a very expensive long term economic inefficiency that you are paying for but don’t know you are. Until now anyway. We can only hope so.
This has now reached enormous economic costs. For example: Each old existing network channel can carry and deliver at least 5 digital TV (DTV) channels with current technology, on what is after all spectrum owned by the public. (It is important to understand these old media oligarchs do not own this spectrum, only temporary licenses issued by your elected mealy-mouthed federal government and their unelected mandarins, which means it is subject to return to the public and resale.) That is a minimum 5 channels times 5 national networks equals a minimum of 25 high quality (superior to existing analog TV) DTV channels. However either side of this old network channel spectrum are more channels that are not used but left blank to prevent TV channel competition. Nameless faceless spineless Aussie mandarins and their technology illiterate transient political mates have decreed this is in your best interests. This is self –serving bullshit of course and the main reason basically is profit (to the oligarchs and donations then to political parties to help keep them in power and maintaining the same laws for the media monopoly etc etc), and propaganda (for the 2 main parties as they take turns in “governing” Australia- running it or running it into the ground?) but we have covered some of this elsewhere.(We are not against capitalism but using public resources to subsidise it and naturally as a propaganda tool, is not on. Maybe look at http://4idtvforum.blogspot.com etc.)
So, that’s 2 blank unused channels times 25 equals 50 DTV channels. That’s 25 plus 50 equals 75 purely digital channels already. Now you know why the media oligarchs and their political allies are making sure it is taking forever to get iDTV! Vested interests intend remaining vested interests but even a fraction of these 75 DTV channels as free or near free iDTV will bury these monopolistic analog dinosaurs for good. That is why they must prevent iDTV! But remember this spectrum is owned by the public and only rented to these oligarchs and there are ways of forcing governments to do things the bastards don’t want to do. If this was not the case then you cannot be living in a democracy. SO PUT IT TO THE TEST AMIGOS. (email:bsqwatch@yahoo.com) This is why the economic cost of persisting with the media oligarchs and their old analog systems is so great, that it would be less costly for Australians to cancel their licenses (you should understand by now your elected political representatives never will) and go ahead with multichannel iDTV. The old networks know they are sitting on so much economically inefficiently used invaluable spectrum from their temporarily licensed channels, and they also know if they cannot control and/or own them they are rat shit. The value of their inefficient analog assets could be greatly diminished. For them then the choice is that simple. Survival at any cost! Give the masses garbage, reruns and reruns of reruns and anything but iDTV but let them think they are getting DTV. All Australians are paying an enormous price for this but also don’t expect your government, mandarins or academics, to attempt to quantify the true state of this for you as these piss-weak gutless wonders like their jobs and careers too much. Fuck the public interest benefits and nation building!
This is why they and their government mates want you left in the information and digital technologies dark. (Victims of the mushroom treatement.) But with the perception you are, in this regard, in the best of all possible worlds. Through propaganda peddled by the usual suspects of course, your media oligarchs and their mates the political status quo. The darker the better as far as they are concerned! The majority of Aussies can consider themselves well and truly first rate mushrooms. Kept in the dark and fed endless bullshit! But you are now hopefully more aware of the real state of iDTV? Use this heightened awareness by supporting 4iDTV.
However this is not all. There is more? You bet! To get the maximum “i” out of iDTV it is technologically preferable and economically more efficient to give it to you through fibre optic cables. This is why Telstra has had to be stifled for so long and why Packer and Murdoch were allowed in to set up Foxtel and get control over Telstra’s bandwidth plans and strategy, ( and why Trujillo is attempting to do it but being prevented by the local media mafia etc) and as the Telstra shareholders loose about $15 billion at latest market value, not to mention what it has and continues to cost Aussie SME’s. Once again if you do not seem to want to learn that if you keep allowing the Aussie legal profession and their nameless faceless spineless bureaucrats to rule you then you will continue to get treated like mushrooms as they laugh all the way to their economic prosperity and into their prosperous retirements (thanks to you funding their Future Fund, which is a formula for even more corruption), all mainly on you, the mushroom crop.
Part 2 will cover this. Tesltra’s non-fibre telco realm, not the mushroom business!And the Hong Kong - Telstra multi-billion dollar scams by insiders!Do Australians understand POWER? Do Australians understand the economic bases of wealth creation? Ask yourself why there are so many lawyers in politics?In the meantime.Support a world first an ECONOMIC BILL OF RIGHTS amendment to the Australian Constitution to clean up the corrupt entrenched political status quo and their corrupt infrastructure of bureaucracy and get universal free iDTV and get your democracy back. (Compulsory voting is undemocratic by the way but it is used by governments to control you like sheep.) Democracy, free speech and economic prosperity for all Aussies through wealth creation and not wealth transfer, now depends on your support. http://economicbillofrights.blogspot.com)