Public space Australian-style

In Australia, The Age reports that ABC's boss Mark Scott seems prepared to take on Rupert Murdoch and other commercial competitors in a much more robust way than Mark Thompson.

Mark Scott is doing what no ABC chief has done before him: he is taking on Australia's media proprietors at their own game. As competitive as any businessman, he has also shown himself to be an astute political player, an unflinching opponent and an expansionist in his vision for his fiefdom. Under his leadership, our venerated Aunty is not just hitching up her skirts a little; she has broken into a cancan.....