If you work in, have taken notice of, or know much about the fortunes of, the Australian media industry over the last decade or more, you’d think this would be a very simple story – a graph with a constantly downward-pointing arrow indicating lost sales, profit, jobs and companies.
But Burrowes, who founded the media blog Mumbrella, tells the story with far more nuance. There’s no escaping it, most of the arrows do point downwards but there are success stories featuring both large and small personalities, executives and moguls who rise, fall, and rise again.
It’s a weighty tome, but Burrowes has structured it well with every chapter concentrating on a different sector (TV, radio, print publishing and so forth) and following events in chronological order.
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