Turkish TV fined for showing Tintin captain smoking

Message-Id: <20100220063009.E555430719B6@node2.byetcluster.com> Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 01:30:09 -0500 (EST) From: root@admin2.byetcluster.com (root) ANKARA: Turkey''s media watchdog has fined a clannish television steer over scenes in the Tintin humor that exhibit Captain Haddock and another villains smoking. The Higher Board of Radio and Television (RTUK) said the medium of respiration scenes was against a accumulation on preventing the harms of baccy and maltreated a dustlike of 50,000 Turkic lira (33,200 dollars, 24,100 euros) on the send TV8, in a judgement posted on its web site. One board member objected to the fine, arguing that children can distinguish between the fiction and non-fiction and that respiration fitted with the features of villains, the Hurriyet Daily News essay reported. Turkish broadcasters normally blur the images of cigarettes, pipes and respiration to escape fines, but critics say the method is counter-productive as it disrupts the viewer''s attention and draws it to the respiration scene. Last year, the government introduced a accumulation dignified a drastic respiration forbiddance in all public buildings, cafes and restaurants. In Turkey, the world''s 10th largest baccy consumer, almost digit in three adults smoke, with the evaluate achievement 48 percent among men, according to official statistics.
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