From The Churches Broadcasting Commission

Bestiality New Benchmark for Radio

The Broadcasting Standards Authority has given a “weak and qualified reprimand” to the Radio Sports Network for broadcasting a 34-second clip of a woman having sex with a bull. The clip was followed by comments from the announcer which the Authority said ‘confirmed the implication of bestiality’. The item was broadcast at 10.15 on a Sunday morning in October last year.

The Authority upheld a formal complaint on the matter but decided not to impose on the station anything other than the public release of their decision.

“When the Authority’s decision states that ‘niche-targeted stations are expected to exercise a degree of discretion during the time that children normally listen’ the implication is clear that such a clip is acceptable at times when children are not likely to listen,” said Churches Broadcasting Commission chair, Trish Moseley.

“We say such a broadcast is totally unacceptable at any time. This is a new very low benchmark that this so-called Standards Authority has set.”

“On behalf of the churches we represent – and that’s people from more than 50 percent of the country’s population – we ask that the Authority come out clearly and unequivocally and state that such broadcasts are totally unacceptable. And they should heavily penalize the perpetrators,” said Mrs Moseley.

“The public release of their decision is an ineffective and innocuous penalty for such a broadcast. The government-appointed members of the Authority should hang their heads in shame at the lack of moral leadership they have shown in their weak and qualified reprimand,” she added.

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