Aussie TV Under Threat

Following on from Jeff's post of a month ago, an intriguing diatribe in the Sydney Morning Herald. Correspondent Imre Salusinszky argues strongly against trade protection for our film and television industry:

"local-content hysteria is spread by the endless whining and droning of actors and musos in the media"

"The ideological buttress that for so long supported local-content quotas - industry assistance, based on national identity - has gradually crumbled, exposed as pure ethnophobia, and as devoid of substance as the rantings of Big Kev. Meanwhile, unrelated shifts in information and communication technology are rendering any regulatory regime in the area of cultural content impossibly complex and expensive."



If anyone can contain their rage long enough to get a cogent response onto the screen, i'd be interested to hear what people think.

Cheers
Grant