Watchdog ACMA welcomes call for the power to enforce broadcaster’s on-air corrections
Chapman: ‘Logical’
Media watchdog the Australian Communications and Media Authority has welcomed a parliamentary report that says the organisation should be given the power to force on-air corrections.
Chris Chapman, the ACMA chairman, told Encore he believes recommendations handed down by the Joint Select Committee on Broadcasting Legislation are “sensible and logical”.
The recommendation was made last month but went virtually unnoticed as it came out during the Labor leadership spill.
As a new TripleJ listener, I love how the Government get away with swearing going to air, while all the other Commercial stations have to censor the best bits.
There’s nothing quite like a Soviet-esque committee, accountable to no-one, “enforcing” the will of the government, or themselves.
As for their “toothless tiger” claims, the tiger is the people.
If broadcasters infringe, the people will ignore them and put them out of business.
It’s time to put these regulator piss-ants – who were never chosen by the people – out of business, and let the people decide.