Media Matters in New Zealand Inc., a registered charity with the Charities Commission, has engaged Tony Ellis QC, one of our country’s most respected Civil Rights lawyers, to fight the Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) recent decision to penalise Donald McDonald for his use of the BSA complaint system. Tax-payer funded lawyers acting for the BSA [...]
The Broadcasting Standards Authority didn’t pay proper attention to context and its own previous judgments in ruling two scenes in television programmes breached standards, a High Court judge has been told. TVNZ and TV3 are appealing last year’s BSA rulings which said scenes in TVNZ’s Hung and TV3′s soap Home And Away breached standards. For [...]
NZ Herald Friday Sep 3, 2010 A respected children’s media expert is lamenting that kids have been sacrificed to sleaze under New Zealand’s TV standards system. Ruth Zanker is a lecturer at Christchurch Polytechnic and a researcher who has specialised in children and the media. She has noted a change. “There is a general sexualising [...]
A promo featuring a serial killer cost TVNZ $2000 after incorrectly being classified as suitable for a general audience. The advertisement for Real Crime: Interview with a Serial Killer had footage of a serial killer saying he had snapped a woman’s neck. It was shown at 5.25 pm on a Wednesday, in a G (general) [...]
BSA Criticised For Refusing Name Suppression on Complaint
In a media release issued today, Family First NZ, a registered charity with the Charities Commission, has criticised the Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) for refusing name suppression sought by a complainant. It says that potential complainants may not speak up and complain about breaches of broadcasting standards as a result of the BSA refusing to grant [...]