Society’s complaint to Broadcaster over "Bloody Mary"
March 30, 2006 by David
Filed under Complaints to Broadcasters
Society’s letter of complaint to CanWest Media Works over “South Park’s” episode “Bloody Mary”
Thursday, 30 March 2006
Society president Mike Petrus says: “It is a sad indictment of the Standards Committee of the TV Channel C4, that it has failed to concede that any aspect of the contents of the “South Park” episode “Bloody Mary” transgress the Broadcasting Standards free-to-air TV Code of good taste and decency that the community expects broadcasters to adhere to.
Minister’s failure re 22 month-old Board vacancies
March 22, 2006 by David
Filed under Film & Lit. Board Appointments
Minister of Internal Affairs fails in statutory duty over 22 month-old vacancies on Board
Media Release 22/03/06
The terms of office of eight members of the Film and Literature Board of Review expired almost 22 months ago and yet the Minister of Internal Affairs, Hon. Rick Barker, has failed to either reappoint them or replace them. They include Rotorua-based barrister Claudia Elliott (President), Greg Presland (Deputy President), Mark Anderson, Peter Cartwright (the Governor-General’s husband), Dr Brian McDonnell, Marion Orme, Dr Lalita Rajasinghe and Stephen Stehlin.
Film Board Appointments Soon
March 22, 2006 by David
Filed under Film & Lit. Board Appointments
Department claims Ministers will be in a position to consider possible Board appointments “soon”
Wednesday, 22 March 2006
Response from Department of Internal Affairs
To Information Request from National Secretary
Society for the Promotion of Community Standards Inc
Chief Censors’ denial of involvement in banning religious videos is proved false
March 6, 2006 by David
Filed under Censor, Homosexuality
“Censors and Videotapes”
Letters to the Editor
The NZ Herald, 6/03/06
Chief Censor Bill Hastings says that columnist Jim Hopkins’ attempt at satire over South Park evaporates in the harsh light of truth because he did not ban religious videotapes to which Hopkins refers.
Hastings’ claim is disingenuous. He was largely responsible for writing the decision that resulted in the banning of the two videos (GayRights/Special Rights: Inside the Homosexual Agenda and AIDS: What You Haven’t Been Told) when he was the deputy president of the Film and Literature Board of Review, a statutory position he held before becoming Deputy Chief Censor in 1998.