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Thursday 14 August 2008
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The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA as it's also known, doesn't sound like a hot media topic, but its international negotiation process, led by the US, Japan and the EU, has sparked quite a deal of online interest and concern. The stated aim of the agreement is to provide a common international framework for the protection of intellectual property. Now a high level of secrecy has surrounded ACTA, and that secrecy has led to a large amount of web speculation about the actual intent of the treaty.
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Linguist David Crystal has just done a comprehensive study of text messaging. He dismisses the idea that text language is corrupting English. In fact he says it actually helps promote literacy.
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Sandra Hall talks with us about her new book Tabloid Man: The Life and Times of Ezra Norton.
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Thursday 07 August 2008
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The audience loved it and it's apparently led to a flurry of interest in advertising as a career, but has the ABC's Gruen Transfer caused divisions within the industry?
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Dr Robert Crawford is a Research Fellow with the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies at King's College London. And he's the author of a detailed history of the Australian advertising sector called, 'But Wait, There's More'.
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Thursday 31 July 2008
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This weekend sees the final edition of Channel Nine's Sunday program. When it premiered back in 1981 it was revolutionary. There'd never been anything like it on commercial television. We'll look back with its former Managing Editor, Tom Krause.
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Tony Veitch has been a major television personality in New Zealand but he's now gone to ground after he publicly confessed he had "lashed out" at a former girlfriend.
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Some new research on Australians and their use of the internet.
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Thursday 24 July 2008
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The ABC has just launched a new internet television service called iView. The service takes the availability of video on the net to new levels in Australia and judged on overseas experience, iView is likely to have mass appeal. We speak with the head of ABC Television Kim Dalton.
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Leonard Downie Jr is the executive editor of one of the world's most respected news organisations The Washington Post. During his tenure the Post has won 25 Pulitzer prizes. On the eve of his retirement he talks about the paper's successes and failures.
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