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Choking it. How free is free-to-air TV?
Press release – 16 May, 2013Sydney, Friday 17 May 2013: Channel 7 and SBS have followed Channel 9’s lead and banned a controversial Greenpeace recycling advert.http://youtu.be/Q7Uxaw6YoRw Despite clearance and classification by Free TV- the industry regulatory body – a Channel 7 representative called the ad ‘inappropriate’ before issuing the ban order. In just over a…
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Pacific tuna boats struggle for survival.
Press release – 12 May, 2013Honiara, May 13, 2013 – Local tuna boat operators targeting albacore in the South Pacific are under threat of being pushed out of operation altogether due to the steady growth in numbers of subsidized foreign fishing vessels. (i)According to a recent report by the Forum Fisheries Agency (ii), certain foreign…
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Channel 9 bottles it over controversial recycling ad
Press release – 9 May, 2013Sydney, Friday 10th May 2013: In an 11th hour decision, Channel 9 has banned Greenpeace’s controversial ad in support of a national cash for cans recycling scheme. The ad – lampooning Coca-Cola’s opposition to effective recycling – has gone viral, being viewed over half a million times on YouTube since…
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Ad Campaign: Australians Tell Coca-Cola, Stop Trashing Australia
Press release – 5 May, 2013Sydney, Monday 6 May 2013: On the eve of Coca-Cola Amatil’s AGM, Greenpeace has launched a television advertisement skewering the beverage giant’s efforts to sabotage a national ‘cash for containers’ scheme.http://youtu.be/Q7Uxaw6YoRw “Coca-Cola has relentlessly bullied politicians, spent hundreds of thousands of dollars silencing recycling advocates and taken the Northern Territory…
