20 March, 2013 11:28AM ACDT  Could regions miss-out under media
reforms?  The Government's proposed media reforms have created a
storm of commentary across the country this week, but looking
beyond opinions spurting from the metropolitan centres, how will
these reforms affect South Australia's regional media?    •
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• Share  Untangling the potential outcomes of the proposed new
legislation is a tricky task, according to Professor of
journalism and social media at Griffith University, Mark
Pearson.  "There's a whole lot of voices going on with this and
a whole lot of vested interests, there's the vested commercial
interest of the various news groups, there's political interest
from both sides of politics.  "But the poor relation in all of
this, where there aren't really any independent voices speaking,
is the genuine concern about free expression particularly in
regional communities."  As outlined in ABC News reports the
reforms would include:   Deb