MediaCorp fined for airing show featuring gay couple
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BROADCASTER MediaCorp TV has been fined $15,000 by the Media Development Authority (MDA) for airing a show that featured a gay couple and their adopted baby.
The MDA said yesterday that an episode of an acquired home and decor series, Find and Design, "normalises and promotes a gay lifestyle". In the episode - aired on Channel 5 at 7.30am on Sunday, Jan 13 - the host helped a gay couple turn their game room into a nursery for their adopted baby.
The MDA objected to several scenes of the couple and their baby together, and the host's acknowledgement of the pair as a family.
It said they breached the Free-to-Air TV Programme Code, "which disallows programmes that promote, justify or glamorise gay lifestyles".The MDA had consulted the Programme Advisory Committee for English Programmes, which frowned on the episode's presentation of a gay relationship as an acceptable family unit, and its airing during family viewing hours.
Mr Kenneth Liang, executive vice-president of programming and production for Channel 5, told The Straits Times that regulations were open to interpretation.
He said: "In this case, we overstepped the line. We understand the OB (out-of-bounds) markers in this area more clearly now, and this won't happen again."
This is MediaCorp TV's second breach of the code.
In 2002, it was fined $10,000 for airing offensive footage from a sex-scandal video of Taiwanese legislator Chu Mei-Feng, on Channel 8's News 8 at 10.
Source: Asiaone http://www.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Showbiz/Story/A1Story20080425-61734.html
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show oni mah
does not mean promote
no need so anal lah
(no pun intended) -
Thats singapore censorship for u.
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WTF... like that also fine...
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does this mean that gays have no human rights leh?
gays cannot have a happy family har?
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Originally posted by browniebaobao:
does this mean that gays have no human rights leh?
gays cannot have a happy family har?
they can
but oni cannot go on tv -
the couple's from singapore one ? ....
I don't think gay couples should be allowed to adopt at all ....
it's unfair for the child to grow up in an environment that's fundamentally against the laws of nature ....
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Originally posted by FireIce:
show oni mah
does not mean promote
no need so anal lah
(no pun intended)Mediacorp should showcase a story about a rich Chinese man with his 20 wives and mistresses living together happily or how one of the regulars at Geylang pick up Chinese and Indonesian girls.
show oni mah....does not mean promote...singaporean women no need so virginal one (bad pun intended)
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people should fricking lighthen up!
u hate gays...ur son wud be gay!!! better still...he'd be a loose bottom. (directed to all homophobes in general)
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Just the transferring of money from one temasek's subsidary to another subsidary i think.
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Isn't it a little ridiculous in giving out fines for such reasons? Surely the MDA don't have to be so outright in being anti-gay.
Weather having a gay family is right or wrong is another issue altogether. But everyone is entittled to their own opinion and views...still, it does not mean that one can have the right to censor words/ideas that one don't agree with. It's not as if the media is promoting violence or crime like that...
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stupid.
fine mediacorp, later they increase the tv licence fee den how? we suffer leh.
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how's the kid gonna grow man.
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Originally posted by hiphop2009:
stupid.
fine mediacorp, later they increase the tv licence fee den how? we suffer leh.
don't watch lor. SG tv pretty much suck anyway
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Originally posted by wonderamazement:
how's the kid gonna grow man.
the kid either grows up gay, or normal. haha. i wonder if he will feel he's queer to like girls or not.
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Originally posted by annoy-you-must:
Isn't it a little ridiculous in giving out fines for such reasons? Surely the MDA don't have to be so outright in being anti-gay.
Weather having a gay family is right or wrong is another issue altogether. But everyone is entittled to their own opinion and views...still, it does not mean that one can have the right to censor words/ideas that one don't agree with. It's not as if the media is promoting violence or crime like that...
Homosexuality is illegal and most Singaporeans want to keep it that way. Those who live in Singapore must observe the laws or face the consequences...period.
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seriously..being gay is nothing wrong as long one does not force their ideas to another
so whats with MDA?
being gay also wrong -
Originally posted by StarPuppy:
seriously..being gay is nothing wrong as long one does not force their ideas to another
so whats with MDA?
being gay also wrongI agree being gay is fine 'as long as one does not force their ideas' on others. However, the recent attempt by the gay community to repeal 377A despite the overwhelming objection of Singaporeans indicates that they do intend to force the majority to accept their idea that homosexuality should be regarded as socially acceptable. Gays should be allowed to go about their daily activities and nobody is going to question what they do in their homes. But when gays try to seek a greater public presence, they run up against the views of the majority who are socially and religiously conservative. Conflicts are inevitable and in such conflicts, the will of the majority must prevail.
Mediacorp's action is tentamount to promoting the gay lifestyle, which is forbidden by the laws of Singapore.
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being gay is fine but it's wrong to promote it. cos tv has served as 'baby-sitter' n it might give naive viewers the wrong idea which may influence them to walk into twisted path.
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i don't think it's ok to be hiding the truth from the ppl too.. pretending that they don't exist.. how can like that..? u dun let ppl know of the existence of gays, den one day, they see a gay couple, automatically they brand them as weird.. it's unfair to them lo..
if u dunwan ur kids to turn gay next time, the best thing is not to hide the truth from them what.. is to educate them.. let them know there are such ppl ard.. hide from them is not a solution..