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You can hear the mwah-ha-ha-ha-ing all the way from Monaco can’t you?

In line with some advice from the author of the highly successful Big Lorry Blog I am going broadening this blog’s appeal for one day only to happy-go-lucky conspiracy theorists. 

Obviously, the Monaco Media Forum (what do you mean you haven’t heard of it, it’s the Davos of the media set!) isn’t that secret as they have let Kevin Anderson in there and he’s blogging about the bits they will let him talk about on Media Guardian’s Organgrinder.

But checking out the event’s website, with its Star Wars titles-like scrolling roll call of big influential media moguls and royals…

…and the image of large red diamonds invading a marina…

…and you can’t resist indulging in a little “secret rulers of the world” type paranoia can you….

But seriously, it sounds like most of what is being discussed is stuff readers of this blog will already know about according to Mr Anderson:

… generally [discussion is about] video has been liberated from TV, from broadcast networks. That is clear from the panel and nothing revolutionary. Go to any of these conferences, and what you see is a struggle between over rights. In the past, the distribution system was closed, and before the advent of the video recorder, very ephemeral. Now, people are time shifting and place shifting.

: : In keeping with the conspiracy theory theme for the post, the first 15 seconds of this video are very funny…