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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…]

Is Porn funding-directorship – a family business worth crowing about?

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Stephen (Steve) Peter Crow appointed his brother David Bruce Crow of Inglewood and his sister Leanne Marie Osborn of Fitzroy, New Plymouth, as directors of HWGA Company Ltd – effective 15 May 2010. HWGA Co. Ltd currently owns 705,000 shares (40.38%) in CVC Group Ltd – a porn ‘mother company’ from which Steve Crow resigned as director effective 15 May 2010. Leanne Marie Osborn, who with her husband Larry Charles Osborn, owns 3,000 CVC Group Ltd shares, will now be serving the role of co-director of HWGA Co. Ltd along side her brothers Steve and David – an all the family affair in would appear – helping the shrinking porn industry. (Four porn companies owned by CVC Group Ltd and directed by Steve Crow have recently been placed in liquidation owing unsecured creditors and the IRD hundreds of thousands of dollars).

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