This week the Federal Government announced it will be holding an inquiry into the nation's print and online media organisations. Of course the coalition and News Limited were not pleased with this (a coincidence, just like all the other times they agree I'm sure).
Personally I hate the idea of the government investigating the way the media works. Theoretically it should be the other way around. But how can people really get the facts when 70% of newspapers are owned by a single company in this country. This would have been a bigger problem 10 years ago because they were more prominent before internet news took off... wait, why wasn't this a problem of public interest?
Unfortunately I find online news in this country may also have significant issues with reporting the news so maybe the inquiry might help a little bit. The media organisations probably aren't too worried anyway, News Limited has until the end of February to come up with a reason why the whole thing was useless to discredit it.
At the end of all this it seems like it won't be a thorough inquiry, despite it being needed. I'm sure that before the phone hacking scandal in the UK became realised no one thought it was possible or even happening. I can't help but wonder what is happening here.
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