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Laura McClure: ACT MP says the Broadcasting Standards Authority should be dissolved · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: The old what counts as media debate is back. The
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  Speaker 1: Broadcasting Standars Authority, the BSA says the rule book stuck
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty nine. It wants the law change to
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  Speaker 1: keep up with digital only content. This is your podcast
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  Speaker 1: stuff on the internet. Acting p Laura McClure has lodged
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  Speaker 1: a member's bill back in November last year to abolish
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  Speaker 1: the BSA altogether and joins me, Now, Laura, good morning.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning running.
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  Speaker 1: So you want to get rid of the BSA altogether,
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  Speaker 1: and they are saying they want more power. Why do
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  Speaker 1: you think that, you know, broadcasters like this one shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: be covered by a BSA. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Look, I think times were different back in the nineteen eighties.
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  Speaker 2: For example, you know, we only had radio and television,
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  Speaker 2: and things have moved on, and the BSA we're right
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  Speaker 2: about two things. One, you know, their revenue is declining
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  Speaker 2: and to the world has changed significantly. We have quite
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  Speaker 2: a lot of other mechanisms and oversight, and I don't
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  Speaker 2: believe that the essay is relevant anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think it's unfair on traditional broadcasters to have
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  Speaker 1: to follow these rules and others?
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  Speaker 2: Not? Absolutely. I think it's completely unfair In a changing
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  Speaker 2: world where people are consuming media and all kinds of
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  Speaker 2: different places, that traditional broadcasters are paying an awful amount
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  Speaker 2: of levies the quite frankly a service. I don't think
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  Speaker 2: that they need more.
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  Speaker 1: How do you make sure that people have some kind
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  Speaker 1: of news that they can sort of loosely trust. And
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  Speaker 1: I know, I know there aren't many who trust mainstream
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  Speaker 1: media outlets anymore anyway, But you know what I'm saying, Like,
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  Speaker 1: when something big happens, you go to a trusted source.
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  Speaker 1: Do you not need some regulation for that?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Look absolutely, I mean we already have the Media Council,
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  Speaker 2: which all of our big name media are signed into,
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  Speaker 2: where you know, people can look to and make complaints
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  Speaker 2: if you see things that are objectionable or illegal. We
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  Speaker 2: have the Classifications Office can report TODA if it's online.
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  Speaker 2: We have neat safe advertising standards already. That there is
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  Speaker 2: an awful lot out there when it comes to regulation
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  Speaker 2: and bureaucracy already, and given the fact that people are
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  Speaker 2: consuming media in all kinds of different places, really it
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  Speaker 2: really is unfair for mainstream media to have to adhere
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  Speaker 2: or comply to essentially paying levies. I mean they have
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  Speaker 2: barely any any complaints realistically, but I do think there is.
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  Speaker 2: It is important for people who have oversight and trust
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  Speaker 2: and accountability, and I think that we've got enough dere
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  Speaker 2: all right.
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  Speaker 1: Laura, appreciate your time this morning. Laura McLure, who's the
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  Speaker 1: act MP wants to get rid of the BSA. For
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