Repeater fined for Shonky Repeating

from Croz Walsh’s blog

Bar­bara Dreaver and TVNZ found guilty of unbal­anced report­ing. Bar­bara Dreaver, who sent a num­ber of mis­lead­ing reports on Fiji until she was denied entry, has been found want­ing for one of her reports on Samoa, and TVNZ that screened and added to her story sug­gest­ing Samoa was awash with drugs and guns, has been fined $5000 by the Broad­cast Stan­dard Author­ity, payable to the Samoa Gov­ern­ment, with another $2000 payable to the Crown.

“In the Authority’s view, the cumu­la­tive effect of such a dra­matic intro­duc­tion cou­pled with the infor­ma­tion pre­sented in the item was to cre­ate an impres­sion for view­ers that not only was the sit­u­a­tion in Samoa extremely seri­ous, but Gov­ern­ment offi­cials were com­plicit in the guns and drugs trade.”

Two years ago the BSA ruled against Michael Field for mis­rep­re­sen­ta­tion.  It’s always too late but thank good­ness there is some check on sloppy and irre­spon­si­ble jour­nal­ism.

Michael Field really is a prize prick as well as being woe­fully ill-informed. For a repeater he seems awfully bitter.

Mean­while back in Fiji the Com­modore has started to clean house. He is sort­ing all the civil ser­vice prob­lems out! Affairs and pil­low talk are very com­mon in Fiji gov­ern­ment departments.

Civil ser­vants engag­ing in extra-marital affairs will face the sack, Prime Min­is­ter Com­modore Voreqe Bain­i­marama says.

Speak­ing at Naca­maki Vil­lage, on Koro yes­ter­day, Com­modore Bain­i­marama said the mil­i­tary had led the way by sack­ing 10 instruc­tors for hav­ing sex with female cadet officers.

“This should be a warn­ing to every­one employed as a civil ser­vant. We will not tol­er­ate such behav­iour from those employed by Gov­ern­ment,” he said.

Com­modore Bain­i­marama said civil ser­vants must show good exam­ples to the peo­ple they served.

“If any civil ser­vant is found engaged in such activ­i­ties, they will be dealt with accord­ingly,” he said.
He warned all civil ser­vants to main­tain ethics and values.

Imag­ine the uproar here if John Key did the same! I won­der – Tiger­pig‘s most pop­u­lar hunt­ing grounds would be out of bounds?

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