Okay, I expected the 7pm report to apply the standard soft soap journalism I've been seeing lately. They actually did a pretty good job.
Conroy comes out with a few falsities from time to time - but by far the biggest indication of failure to understand the technology involved is this:
Until politicians are able to understand, or at least acknowledge that this is patently false, we're not going to be able to make progress in this domain.Conroy wrote:There is nothing special about the internet as a distribution platform.
The internet is fundamentally different to most other distribution platforms.
Why? For starters, it's primarily an active medium rather than a passive, like television - you seek out content on the internet, it doesn't deliver content to you.