Publications
Real Media, Real People
Since 1990, the New Zealand Broadcasting Standards Authority has spent many hours weighing up two competing concepts. Both are of vital interest to the New Zealand viewing and listening public. They are, on the one hand, freedom of expression and the public’s right to know; and on the other hand, the right of the individual to privacy.
Real Media, Real People provides a summary of the development of New Zealand’s broadcasting privacy principles and precedent-setting decisions since 1990. It updates our earlier publication, Privacy: Interpreting the Broadcasting Standards Authority’s Decisions, January 1990 to June 1998, with a discussion of the Authority’s decisions to June 2003.
Most importantly, Real Media, Real People reports on the views of five key stakeholder groups, and presents the findings of a major public opinion survey of 1,200 New Zealanders. It analyses and discusses the results of this comprehensive consultation for the benefit of all interested persons whether they be broadcasters, law-makers, journalists, students or past or potential complainants.
To order Real Media, Real People ($19.95), please write to the Broadcasting Standards Authority.
Postal: PO Box 9213, Wellington
Email: info@bsa.govt.nz