Warner Bros wins Roger Award for NZ's 'worst transnational' (PMC)

The annual 2010 Roger Awards for the worst transnational corporation operating in New Zealand being presented in Auckland. Chief judge Dr Christine Dann branded the winners, film studio corporation Warner Brothers, the "Saurons of cinema". They won for their political interference in New Zealand during 2010, forcing a special law to settle a "Hobbit" labour dispute. The awards, founded in 1996, are organised by the Christchurch-based Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa (CAFCA). Other finalists were BUPA, Imperial Tobacco, Telecom, Westpac and Vodafone. The New Zealand government was awarded an accomplice award and film director Sir Peter Jackson a special Quisling award. Organiser: Murray Horton (CAFCA). Reporter: Alex Perrottet, Camera/script: Jeff Bell, Pacific Media Centre, AUT University. 4 April 2011. www.pmc.aut.ac.nz

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