{"id":56303,"date":"2023-06-29T14:43:34","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T05:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/29\/new-zealand-broadcaster-reprimanded-over-graphic-dolphin-mating-scene"},"modified":"2023-06-29T14:43:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T05:43:34","slug":"new-zealand-broadcaster-reprimanded-over-graphic-dolphin-mating-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56303","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand broadcaster reprimanded over \u2018graphic\u2019 dolphin mating scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nature series Our Big Blue Backyard drew one complaint to media watchdog that it should not have given the program a G, or general, classification<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s media watchdog has reprimanded public broadcaster TVNZ for not giving a higher classification to a documentary with \u201cdramatised\u201d scenes of dolphin mating.<\/p>\n<p>The nature series Our Big Blue Backyard drew the ire of one viewer who successfully complained to the Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA). In the offending scene, a female dolphin is targeted by a pack of male dolphins that mate with her.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/29\/new-zealand-broadcaster-reprimanded-over-graphic-dolphin-mating-scene\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nature series Our Big Blue Backyard drew one complaint to media watchdog that it should not have given the program a G, or general, classificationNew Zealand\u2019s media watchdog has reprimanded public broadcaster TVNZ for not giving a higher classificatio&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,238,56,520,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-media","category-new-zealand","category-television","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56304,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56303\/revisions\/56304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}