Political broadcasting
The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) is the body responsible for the regulation of broadcasting in Ireland, and two of its recent decisions raise the same question of whether a power provided Continue Reading
Offence and confusion – updated
Adverts by the Core Issues campaign group, centred around the slogan above, suggesting that gay people could be cured, have been banned from London buses by Boris Johnson, Mayor of Continue Reading
Court date for animal rights free expression complaint | HUMANERIGHTSEUROPE
The Grand Chamber hearing Animal Defenders International v. the United Kingdom (Application no. 48876/08) will take place on 7 March. via humanrightseurope.org Continue Reading
The empty chair and the moratorium: broacasters’ duties of fairness – I
During the course of the next month or so, we are going to hear a lot about the duty of broadcasters to be balanced, fair, objective, and impartial, in current affairs matters. In fact, TV3 have Continue Reading
Advertising politics; political advertising
It is a bad advert for Irish politics that RTÉ (Ireland's national public broadcaster) has had to decline to broadcast a radio advertisement for the short film Defend The Pension from the Older & Continue Reading
Political advertising from Ireland to Switzerland
Section 41(3) (also here) of the Broadcasting Act, 2009 provides: A broadcaster shall not broadcast an advertisement which is directed towards a political end or which has any relation to an Continue Reading
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