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• Media complaints - Sunday Star Times letter by John Terris - 30 May 2010
• Standards – A matter of Conventions, by Media Matters member Marris Weight - May 2010

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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 ...
[ Read full letter by John Terris ... ] 

News, May 23 - 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 ... ]

 

'Standards – A matter of Conventions', by Media Matters member Marris Weight

The New Zealand Advertising Standards Authority has used the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child as the basis for their voluntary Code for Advertising to Children, to which all principle New Zealand Advertisers are signatories. 

Article 17 of the Convention asks "the media of signatory countries to acknowledge each child's individuality, uniqueness, strength and capability, while affording children 'extra protection' from violence, unsafe practices, indecency, offensive language or bad taste." [ Read full article ... ]