Tuesday, July 10, 2007

New Rules for Television coverage of Parliament

There are new rules for the coverage of the New Zealand Parliament
Read the Report of the Standing Orders Committee

"New Zealand's major television news organisations - Television New Zealand, TV3, Maori Television and Sky News NZ - today issued a joint public pledge to defy parts of Parliament's new rules on TV coverage of Members of Parliament in the debating chamber."

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National is having second thoughts about the new rule.

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On the same topic from Colin Espiner's blog:
"National has just announced it will seek to review the new ban on satire in Parliament. This comes after all the nation’s broadcasters got together to give the collective finger to Parliament over the rules restricting the media over what it can show of the House, which were passed by 111 votes to just six last week."

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