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BSA Slams TVNZ’s Close Up Porn Promotion

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Media Release by Family First NZ, a registered charity with the NZ Charities Commission.

“The trend by the networks to sexualise news and current events is disturbing” – Family First NZ

Family First NZ is welcoming a ruling from the Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) demanding that TVNZ publicly acknowledge their breach of broadcasting standards for a programme in August 2010 which offended many families with its gratuitous display of the porn industry. TVNZ has also been ordered to pay a paltry $3,000 fine.

“As a result of a campaign by Family First supporters, TVNZ received an ‘unprecedented’ number of complaints regarding this programme. The Close Up story was based around the promotion of the porn industry – all under the guise of so-called ‘daily news and current events’. The trend by the television networks to sexualise news and current events and use sexual innuendo is disturbing,” says Bob McCoskrie, National Director of Family First NZ. [Read more…]

Steve Crow and salacious, sordid, tawdry and boring porn sleaze (Erotica Expo) versus Triumphs of human imagination that "raise the human spirit" (World of Wearable Art).

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Editorial: A sight to raise the human spirit (The Dominion Post Last 26/09/2009)

OPINION: Two impresarios featured in the news this week: [Stephen Peter Crow and Suzie Moncrieff] 

One panders to salacious instincts; the other lifts the human spirit. One is pornographer Steve Crow, the other is World of WearableArt founder Suzie Moncrieff. No prizes for guessing which is which.

Fortunately for Wellington, Mr Crow chose Auckland for his latest Boobs on Bikes parade a publicity stunt that no longer even has the virtue of being novel. [Read more…]