TV3 wrong about gong
Friday, October 3rd, 2008TV3 misled viewers when it broadcast its Campbell Live interview with an actor playing one of the Waiuru Army Museum medal thieves, the BSA has ruled. Viewers were only told that the voice was that of an actor, and might well have thought the person they were seeing was one of the real thieves. After […]
A plea for savvy election night coverage
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008It’s not too much to ask, surely. Here’s what any sensible person, at least half-interested in politics, is going to want to know as the election results roll in: 1. What’s going on in the key electorates that might make or break a party? Winston Peters, Rodney Hide, Peter Dunne, Jim Anderton, maybe Ron Mark. […]
Open letter to Reading Cinemas
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008I like your comfy seats. But you know that ad you run with the fat guy in front of the TV, stuffing himself with chippies? The one where one of the books gets fed up with him and flies through the air to drive him off the couch and out the door that swings open […]
Nice Job 3
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008This week also sees a ripper of a decision from Justice Harrison, overturning Judge Treston’s ruling that the media can’t have a copy of the videotape evidence from the unsuccessful prosecution of the police officers accused of assaulting Rawiri Falwasser with batons and pepper spray in custody. (I have criticised Judge Treston’s decision here). Among […]
Nice Job 2
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008Joanne Black’s article “Fair Facts?” in this week’s Listener (full text up on the 18th) gives a terrific overview of the key issues in the Fairfax contempt trial, based largely on the affidavits of the experts. While I’m dishing out praise, let’s have a round of applause for the headline writer, too.
Nice job 1
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008Kudos to: Judge David Harvey for reversing course on the suppression order that applied only to the internet. As I’ve discussed, he had reasons for imposing the unusual order, though I thought they weren’t sufficient. When the media belatedly turned up to argue the toss, the judge accepted that: absent an identifiable risk to a […]
Free advice for the Greens:
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008Ditch the idea of taking a broadcasting standards complaint about TV3’s decision to pull the leaders’ debate after the Clark/Key walkout. For one thing, you can’t complain about a programme before it’s been broadcast. For another, you have to complain to the broadcaster first, and, as this isn’t a complaint about an “election programme” (see […]
BSA election ad complaint system
Thursday, September 25th, 2008I wonder whether the BSA’s fast-track election-ad complaint system will get a decent work-out this year. The system allows you to complain straight to the BSA about “election programmes”. This really means broadcast election advertisements, including opening and closing addresses, rather than, for example, election debates. (Bonus question: was the televised press conference at which the […]
And speaking of defamation lawsuits involving fisheries…
Thursday, September 25th, 2008The Simunovich case (discussed below) isn’t the same as Winston Peters’ defamation lawsuit against TVNZ, Radio NZ and others about the fisheries issues – the case that saw Rodney Hide ejected from the House late last month. Peters fumed that Hide was improperly trying to raise issues during question time that were being contested in […]
Court of Appeal weighs in on Simunovich defamation case
Thursday, September 25th, 2008The defamation lawsuit brought by Simunovich Fisheries against TVNZ and others looks, from afar, like it involves the parties running an ultra-marathon through a labyrinth. Still, it’s the biggest defamation claim in NZ’s history (the plaintiffs are seeking nearly $30 million, and are arguing that most of that is actual financial losses). So there’s a lot […]
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