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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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