Letters:
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- Media needs new complaints body - DomPost letter by John Terris - 31 December 2011
- Letter to CEO, BSA re Handling of Complaints from our Members, by Media Matters President John Terris - 24 October 2010
- Media complaints - Sunday Star Times letter by John Terris - 30 May 2010
Media needs new complaints body - DomPost letter - 31 December 2011
I'd like to thank Unicef NZ's Dennis McKinlay for his timely observations about online child abuse (Features, Dec 27). I'd add two things.
First, he mentions the need for international co-operation; ...
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Features, 27 December 2011 - Related article:
Searching for ways to prevent online child abuse
DomPost Online | Tuesday, 27 December 2011
By Dennis McKinlay
OPINION: How do we tackle online child sexual abuse while still giving young people access to the internet? It's a thorny problem, but some thought is starting to sort fact from the emotion that has accompanied this debate. [ Read full article ... ]
Letter to CEO, BSA re Handling of Complaints from our Members
By Media Matters President, John Terris
John Terris
Background: Donald MacDonald, a long-time Media Matters member and a pensioner with about 100 complaints to his name, has had the BSA threaten to charge him for a recent complaint.
Dear Sir,
We are appalled that the Authority has threatened Donald MacDonald with costs for making what are alleged to be frivolous and vexatious complaints.
Our Executive is of the view that the statutory role of the Authority is to uphold Standards, not to punish the people who complain. We have completely lost confidence in the ability of the Authority to contain continuing offenses against standards on NZ television ....
Media complaints - Sunday Star Times letter - 30 May 2010
THE ARTICLE ridiculing those who make complaints to the Broadcasting Standards Authority (News, May 23) shows just how contemptuous of
any sort of standards those responsible for the increasing volume of gratuitous violence, sex and bad language
on television really are of the audience ...
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News, 23 May 2010 - Related article:
Mice cruelty aside, chill wind blows back on media accusers
Sunday Star Times, 23 May 2010,
by Esther Harward
RECENT COMPLAINTS to media watchdogs – including that a runway fashion outfit was described with the wrong animal print, a flounder dish was criticised in a restaurant review, and a newspaper dropped an apostrophe in Hawke’s Bay – have got commentators ... [ Read full article ... ]
