Australian business media

This is amusing: One of Rupert Murdoch’s top lieutenants has warned that AI threatens a “tsunami” of job losses and could crush readers under a weight of “maggot-ridden mind mould”.

This is getting embarrassing.

Fake left masthead, Crikey, has what we might describe as Murdoch derangement syndrome.

The news is good: Journalist Stan Grant has quit the ABC to become Asia Pacific director of the Constructive Institute, to be based at Monash University in Melbourne.

Fake left Crikey is in a panic about AI journalism.

I am still marveling at how slowly this crackdown is transpiring given the threat to Uncle Sam.

This is illustrative from the AFR: Interest rates must rise higher to conquer inflation and Australia needs a more ambitious growth plan to pay for the mounting cost of the clean energy transition and national security amid a volatile geopolitical world, business leaders have warned.

The AFR should be shut.

The AFR and the Australian have launched an all-out assault against the Albanese Government’s timid energy market intervention.

The AFR is a vile organ these days.

‘Tis an inauspicious day in the life of alternative Australian media: And this: Federal police and parliament’s speaker are refusing to say why a prominent anti-Beijing activist was ordered to leave a public section of the building or risk facing arrest.

I love the smell of burning McCrann in the morning: Please.

What’s happened to journalism at the Australian Financial Review?

It is one of the great ironies of today’s hopelessly corrupted ideological soup.

Recent statements by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) suggested that wage pressures were building based on spurious business liaison ‘evidence’.

I could have told you that this was coming years ago: Four independent directors of the biggest philanthropic journalism institute in the country abruptly resigned after its billionaire founder overhauled the way it operates and allocates funding.

FTAlphaville again.

This is the Chanticleer takes on the eastern energy crisis: We are reliant on an ageing fleet of coal-fired power stations, whose poor reliability issues are causing increasing amounts of gas to be used to generate electricity.

Wonders will never cease as right-wing darling Janet Albrechtsen condemns Scott Morrison today: Sorry, PM, but you’re just not up to the job The Morrison government’s biggest failures are twofold.

Two years ago, Foxtel’s future was looking precarious as its outdated ‘set top box’ business model rapidly lost market share to global streaming services like Netflix, Disney and Amazon.

Playing the Joker card worked a treat in the left and right weekend press for the Morrison Government: This immense distraction has only one purpose, to bury the lede of the collapse of government service delivery during Morrison’s “let it rip” recession.

The Liar goes on his merry way: Some regional Australian publishers that won multimillion-dollar government grants designed to protect local journalism jobs sacked staff and closed newsrooms before the ink was dry on their grant agreements.