Comments on: Since when did Family First get to threaten what I see on TV?

By: Knarf

Knarf — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 09:38:07 +0000

I can’t get too upset about this. They are using similar tactics to what a left wing lobby group might use if TVNZ decided to fund a Mike Hosking show. And the show? Well it’s crap isn’t it?

By: CLEANGREEN

CLEANGREEN — Sat, 21 Jul 2018 18:31:17 +0000

In reply to Frank Macskasy.

100% Frank very well said.

I find that women wearing revieling clothes is a beginning to stir male interest and the same thing now happend when the “inappropriate touching and sexual advances/attention charges are being made against ‘red blooded men’ for showing interest in these “risqué – revieling ladies”.

So we really now are in a pickle until the ‘victoria brigade comes back to straighten this all out again.

By: Draco T Bastard

Draco T Bastard — Sat, 21 Jul 2018 07:39:34 +0000

I suppose we should be asking why these puritans are so embarrassed by their own bodies and from that why they think everyone else should be embarrassed by theirs.

By: Frank Macskasy

Frank Macskasy — Fri, 20 Jul 2018 23:37:47 +0000

The inevitability of trash-tv has arrived: free to air porn.

Really, what did conservatives in Family First think would happen to television under a free market system when the priorities were predicated on attracting maximum viewership to sell advertising?!

If it takes tits’n’arse, then tits’n’arse be it.

Shakespeare or the Russian Bolshoi Ballet won’t cut it anymore.

This is the free market at it’s inevitable, purest form: selling vice to a dumbed down populace.

The dystopian future in “Idiocracy” has arrived, albeit a few centuries early.

By: Geoff Lealand

Geoff Lealand — Fri, 20 Jul 2018 21:06:01 +0000

I have no time for Family Fist (which is essentially a one man bigot-band) but find it hard to justify the screening of Naked Attraction, which is a fraudulent load of tosh, and essentially just perving at a bunch of attention-seekers.

By: Christine

Christine — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 23:24:54 +0000

If you look more closely at Michelangelo’s Creation – which you have chosen to symbolise your complaint about not being able to watch naked strangers judging each other on their naked bodies on television with physical and intellectual wankers – you will observe that it is God who is making all the effort here – quite an old God, is stretching out to a languidly lounging youthful Adam with his index finger and whatever else drooping – and the old man is the one with the outstretched arthritic- looking finger trying to reach him, and it is one of the few times I have felt sorry for God. Great symbolism all around.

I’ve not seen this slimy TV programme, because I barely watch television anyway, but I think sounds debasing all around and I’m glad that someone is saying let’s not have this neanderthal crap.

And if they oppose other prurient crap, will it kill us ? Ill us? Hasten the end of the world ? Nope.

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 22:35:46 +0000

There’s a difference between “being shrewd” and being a “cheap schmuck.”

By: Craig Young

Craig Young — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 22:11:30 +0000

I do think it should be scheduled after the adult viewing watershed at 9.30 pm, but otherwise, I tend to agree with the criticism of Family First’s advertising boycott campaign noted here. Not that McCoskrie doesn’t have the right to launch boycotts and disagree with programming choices, but it’s a little puzzling that he hasn’t encountered the jiggling naughty bits of some of TVNZ On Demand. Perhaps those who oppose McCoskrie might want to take note of compliant companies and boycott them in return for not advertising on Naked Attraction?

By: esoteric pineapples

esoteric pineapples — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 21:30:15 +0000

I thought the show was quite entertaining. It’s quite interesting to see what different people find attractive in different bodies. In this way, it was challenging stereotypes about the human body that we are presented with 24 hours a day through the media, these stereotypes being far more damaging to a lot of people’s self image.

By: Z

Thu, 19 Jul 2018 21:06:34 +0000

Yeah I agree with you.

But someone had to save TVNZ from themselves. I still can’t believe a public broadcasting service paid for this kind of crap.

All of the advertisers should do the public a greater service and withdraw from all TVNZ shows