Afgan women’s dress and real traditionnal dress…
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in economics of media and culture, economics of religion Tags: Afghanistan, Islam, women's liberation
RT if you agree with this warning sign
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in economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation Tags: Anti-Science left, GMOs, organic farming
The Many Disgusting Dishes & Culinary Horrors of Europe
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Is poverty in America not having a cell phone, or not having a smart phone?
13 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, poverty and inequality, technological progress Tags: cell phones, creative destruction, iPhones, technological diffusion
JS Mill on the importance of never saying that the science is settled
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in economics of media and culture, environmental economics, liberalism Tags: climate alarmism, critical discussion, John Stuart Mill, The philosophy of science
The Workplace Is Even More Sexist In Movies Than In Reality | FiveThirtyEight
12 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
Fox News is the most trusted news source among independents, the American term for the swinging voter
11 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, politics - USA Tags: Fox News, media bias
Figure 1: Whose news coverage do you trust the most?
Democrats See The Media As Biased Against Clinton | FiveThirtyEight
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in economics of media and culture, politics - USA Tags: 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton, media bias
It’s usually Republicans who rely on “media bias” as a political defense and GOP voters who think the press is gunning for their candidates. Democrats are more likely to trust the media.
via Democrats See The Media As Biased Against Clinton | FiveThirtyEight.
Hillary Clinton Is More Vulnerable in 2016 Than You Think
10 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
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The east coast of the U.S. at night
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Chiselling on the Closer Economic Relations agreement between New Zealand and Australia
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in economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, rentseeking Tags: barriers to entry, closer economic relations, creative destruction, export pricing, free trade, Hollywood economics, price discrimination, protectionism, rent seeking
Back in the day, New Zealand television programming was sold cheaply into the Australian market. Many cultural and other products are exported into foreign markets and sold for whatever they can get above the price of shipping or digital transmission. What else explains all that rubbish on cable TV?
Under the Closer Economic Relations agreement that creates a single market between Australia and New Zealand, New Zealand made television programming content must be treated the same way as Australian content so it was included in their 50% local content rules for commercial television back from whenever I remember this story from. There was a Federal Court of Australia case that ruled that New Zealand television programming was Australian content programming for the purposes of the relevant media regulations because of Closer Economic Relations.
From the late 1990s, with revival of the New Zealand film and television industry, New Zealand content was starting to flood the Australian market, especially in the off-season in the summer when stations were looking for cheap content to fill a low ratings period.
Naturally, this Kiwi invasion did not please the rent seeking Australian television programme production industry and many a mendicant actor, writer and producer
Where there is a will, where there is a way: minimum quality standards are introduced into the Australian content rules defined by price – a price that happen to be above what the television stations used to pay for New Zealand made programming.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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