Is Australian media losing its capacity to independently scrutinise power holders or is it still too powerful? How the changing social trend and recent changes to media laws affect the industry and its consumers in the future?
Australia's media landscape, like elsewhere around the world, is changing.
Emerging technologies and Australians' growing disinterest in traditional media has many news organisations scrambling for relevance.
Today, some analysts are warning the media is losing its capacity to independently scrutinise and hold to account the bodies of power in a democracy.
The erosion comes, ironically, from the internet's increased democratisation of mass messaging and the rise in social media, content which consumers are increasingly seeking at no cost.
In Australia, compounding that effect are new media-ownership laws and government budget cuts.
Yet, recent developments have critics claiming some media outlets are actually too powerful.
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