Posts Tagged ‘TV’
August 19th, 2011
The
Palestinian attorney general has
ordered a nightly satirical television show to be axed, following complaints from public servants and officials that they were being ridiculed. Watan ala Water (Country on a String) has become popular
for its mockery of Palestinian leaders, officials, corruption, nepotism and social norms. Attorney general Ahmad Mughani said the the programme did not “serve the public interest”, was “harmful to Palestinian society” and had crossed “red lines”.
October 7th, 2010
Paramilitary personnel
ransacked the Balochistan offices of private television channel VSH News TV on 4 October. VSH staff were told by members of the Frontier Corps (FC) to put their hands up, and were then frisked and told to leave the office. Computers and other office equipment were searched and damaged. Reporter for VSH, Jabbar Baloch, was told by an FC spokesman that the raid was carried out due to a misunderstanding. Baloch believes the incident may be in connection to recently aired VSH footage which showed Balochistan journalists’ critical comments about FC activities.
April 22nd, 2010
The publicly-owned television channel
TSR last week agreed to remove a series of cartoons which satirised child sex abuse by Catholic priests from its website, after protests from the Vatican. Some of the pictures were broadcast on an edition of TSR’s Infrared programme, which
tackled the issue of paedophile priests. However, a number of the more controversial images – one of which features Jesus Christ having sex with a child – were felt to be too sensitive and
published only online.
June 16th, 2009
Intelligence agents in Afghanistan have reportedly detained two producers working for Doha-based satellite TV channel, Al-Jazeera. Read more
here
May 15th, 2009
Spain’s national television broadcaster has sacked its director of sports for censoring booing during the national anthem before the national cup final. Read more
here
