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On Apr 19, 8:11 am, pima news <pima.n...@gmail.com> wrote:
> link to article:http://pacific.scoop.co.nz/2010/04/media-7-panel-criticises-bsa-over-...
>> Watch<http://kauri.aut.ac.nz:8080/dspace/handle/123456789/1>
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> Date: 19 April 2010 07:08
> Subject: Media 7 panel criticises BSA over 'guns and drugs' ruling
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> Media 7 panel criticises BSA over 'guns and drugs' ruling
>
> *Pacific Scoop:
> Report – By Pacific Media
> .*
>
> *Commentators on the Media 7 show* (Barbara Dreaver, Tim Pankhurst, and Dr
> David Robie) last night criticised the Broadcasting Standards Authority> ruling <http://www.bsa.govt.nz/decisions/2009/2009-066.html> against a
> controversial Television New Zealand programme about gangs, guns and drugs,> Observer <http://www.samoaobserver.ws/> yesterday published an editorial
> saying the BSA had "got it wrong".
>
> Tim Pankhurst, chief executive of the Newspapers Publishing Association and
> chairman of the Commonwealth Press Union's Media Freedom Committee, said the
> Samoan government had hired expensive lawyers to "pursue and bully" the
> complaint to defend its tourism industry.
>
> Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver reported on criminal gangs, drugs and
> weapon smuggling in Samoa in reports broadcast on One News on 6 April 2009
> and also on Tagata Pasifika.
>
> The Samoan Attorney-General's Office filed a complaint over the balance,
> accuracy and fairness broadcasting standards and this was upheld by the BSA
> last month, but a complaint over law and order was not upheld.
>
> Costs were awarded against TVNZ of $5000 for the Samoan government and $2000
> for the Crown.
>
> Following a bank holdup by masked gunmen in Apia last week, the Samoa
> saying Samoans should now "breathe a sigh of relief" over the TVNZ issue.> article<http://pacific.scoop.co.nz/2010/04/opinion-from-samoa-dreaver-robbery...>
>
> "But how ironic. Here we are demanding an apology for a story about guns
> and drugs and yet in Samoa today, we've got a serious problem with the wide
> availability of firearms. Drugs – marijuana especially – [have] been a
> problem for a long time.
>
> "Just last week, masked men – which reminded us of the masked men in
> Dreaver's story – walked into Westpac Bank and held staff members there at
> gunpoint. They demanded the money and off they went with some $240,000." (
> *Click here for the full
> .*)
>
> Asked by Media 7 host Russell Brown for his response to the BSA ruling,
> former Dominion Post <http://www.stuff.co.nz/> editor tim Pankhurst said:> Pacific <http://www.cafepacific.blogspot.com/>."
> "You have to roll with these [decisions] but I think the [BSA] got it wrong.
>
> "It is hugely relevant that [the complaint] was brought by the government
> and they were prepared to go to the extent of hiring very expensive lawyers
> here in Auckland to pursue and bully this case.
>
> "I assume the motive was to protect the tourism industry."
>
> Another panellist, Pacific Media Centre director associate professor David
> Robie, said governments using the regulatory bodies to curb media freedom
> are "a bit of a worrying trend in the Pacific although two examples yet
> don't make a pattern".
>
> He was also referring to an earlier complaint by the Fiji government upheld
> by the BSA against Fairfax journalist Michael Field.
>
> "But I do want to say something about Barbara's case," Dr Robie said.
>
> "I was at a media freedom conference in Samoa last year not long after the
> controversy blew up and I remember Barbara being attacked – in her absence –
> by several Samoan journalists and I actually spoke out strongly in her
> support.
>
> "One of the very worrying things about the whole episode is how a number of
> journalists singled her out and who seemed to have become propagandists for
> the Samoan government overnight.
>
> "Essentially here was a vendetta and I wrote about this in my blog Cafe
>> *www.youtube.com/TVNZMedia7to watch this episode of Media7.
> "Like Tim, I also thought the BSA had got it wrong."
>
> Dr Robie said the BSA should have considered the "big picture" about the
> government complaint and made balancing comments about the conduct of some
> sections of the Samoan media and the vendetta.
>
> Asked by host Russell Brown what her response was, Dreaver replied:
> "Obviously I am personally unhappy with the BSA decision but I totally stand
> by my story, and so does TVNZ.
>
> "At the end of the day, with a BSA decision, win or lose, it does not affect
> how I do my job.
>
> "It is not the first time I have upset a government and it won't be the
> last. I am just going to keep doing my job."
>
> Television NZ spokesperson Megan Richards told Pacific Media Watch it had
> decided not to continue with an appeal in spite of standing by the story
> because of high legal costs involved and "it's a bit of a lottery".
>
> A statement would be carried by the public broadcaster under the terms of
> the BSA ruling.
>
> *See: *
>
> Barbara Dreaver's TVNZ item: NZ drug trade fuels Samoa gun> smuggling<http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/nz-drug-trade-fuels-samoa-gun-smuggli...>
> David Robie's earlier commentary piece: Samoan 'gangs, drugs and guns'> BSA<http://pacific.scoop.co.nz/2010/03/samoan-gangs-drugs-and-guns-too-gu...>
> too gung-ho for the
> *
>
> * *
>
> *Source: 6803 Pacific Media Watch*
>
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1 comments:
The BSA delivered a fair and full decision. MEdia 7 delivered a biased one sided butt saving measure. Scoop rallied to help a colleague but also delivered a one sided report. Who then is representing fair and unbiased media?
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