Recently the Broadcasting Standards Authority surveyed parents and found that most of them didn't know we had such a thing as a Watershed (a time at which Adult programmes might be screened. That's because firstly, it isn't marked in any way and secondly because while sex, violence and bad language are supposed to be restricted before that time it appears freely in ads and in trailers prior to that time so how would you know? It's a disgrace that NZ, with the most unregulated media in the world is setting new lows for what our kids are allowed to watch.

It is time to change things.

  Join in our new national campaign to move the watershed to 9.30pm. With a General Election coming up, the time has never been better to get politicians to take notice.

For details about the campaign, what you can do, and resources available to you, click here.

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MEDIA MATTERS MOVES TO CHANGE ITS NAME AND ALTER ITS BRIEF TO ENTER THE DIGITAL AGE: Press statement by MEDIA MATTERS President following AGM in Lower Hutt 28/4/08.

(CLICK HERE to attachment "Media Matters Launch")

MEDIA ALERT!!!!! The government is running an expensive campaign against family violence with no mention of the welter of violence and repetitive images of inappropriate sex which our children are being subjected to every day by way of the Internet, Video Games and Mobile Phones. READ ALL ABOUT IT AND ACT!

(CLICK HERE TO ATTACHMENT MEDIA MATTERS MEMBERS ALERT)

 

President's Report to AGM

 
A successful AGM attended by about 40 people in Lower Hutt heard about changes in the media environment ("The Digital Age" is upon us) which necessitate changes in the way this organisation, the only media advocacy group in NZ, goes about its work.
CLICK HERE TO ATTACHMENT MEDIA MATTERS AGM 08 Pres Report..