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Catch of the Week
VOTE: With fewer than 100 days to the general election, it might be fun to look back on a time before Twitter and slick media training – the first MMP election in 1996, in fact, when documentarian Tony Sutorius picked up one of the new digital video cameras and captured the election campaign in Wellington Central. Campaign, which screened at the 1999 NZ Film Festival, gets behind the scenes of a fairly bitter situation in which the National Party’s Mark Thomas was kicked to the kerb so that Richard Prebble and the newly formed Act Party would bolster a National coalition. The film is available in full at NZ On Screen: tinyurl.com/NZLCampaign.
AD BREAK: The Advertising Standards Authority has revealed the most complained-about ads of 2016; nearly half were made about television ads, although digital, print and radio also featured. Typically, the offences cited were sexism, racism and the promotion of bad behaviour, although one ad was just annoying. The numbers are really small, however – the “winner” received 27 complaints, and No 10 received just three. Stop Press has the full list here: tinyurl.
com/NZLComplaints. The ASA’s full report can be
downloaded at asa.co.nz.