One News. Item reported on former chairman of Bridgecorp appearing in court. Accuracy, privacy and programme information. Not upheld.
All Decisions
Breakfast. Host’s comments about news presenter and people using public toilets. Good taste and decency. Not upheld.
One News. Item stated American army offered to build Transmission Gully road in the 1940s. Accuracy, balance and fairness. Not upheld.
South Park. Parodies of Michael Jackson and his son. Law and order. Not upheld.
Checkpoint. Interview with Napier resident watching police trying to deal with an armed man barricaded in a house. Law and order. Not upheld.
Criminal Minds promo. Featured prostitute who had been killing clients. Programme classification and children’s interests, upheld. Good taste and decency, subsumed. Accuracy, not upheld. No order.
Breakfast. Host made comments about the programme’s blind producer. Good taste and decency. Not upheld.
Breakfast. Host’s comments about campervans. Good taste and decency, accuracy and fairness. Not upheld.
Let Us Spray. Special TV3 investigation into the effects of the chemical 2,4,5-T in New Zealand interviewed residents of Paritutu who believed that various illnesses and birth defects in their families were a result of exposure to the chemical. Balance, fairness, upheld. Accuracy, one point not upheld, all other aspects subsumed. Orders (broadcast of statement, $11,250 costs to complainant).
3 News. Follow-up to TV3 special investigation Let Us Spray said that Ministry of Health had “finally admitted it tests positive for political contamination”. Balance, subsumed. Fairness, accuracy, upheld. No order.