Fanny Hill promo. Promo containing adult themes broadcast during news and G programme. Programme classification and children’s interests, upheld. Good taste and decency, subsumed. Order ($2,000 costs to Crown).
The Edge. Broadcast of conversation with listener and her cellphone number. Privacy and fairness. Action taken. Upheld. Order ($1,500 to complainant for breach of privacy).
The Pretender. Swearing and blasphemy. Good taste and decency. Not upheld.
One News and Tonight. Item reported release of Sutch papers. Accuracy, upheld. Balance, not upheld. No order.
One News. Item reported Auckland homicide. Privacy. Declined to determine.
Newstalk ZB. News item gave details of child abuse case. Good taste and decency. Not upheld.
3 News. Item reported John Key’s visit to Greymouth. Balance. Not upheld.
Homegrown. Language in documentary about New Zealand beer. Good taste and decency. Not upheld.
Newstalk ZB. Discussion of binding referenda. Good taste and decency, law and order, controversial issues, denigration and discrimination, and responsible programming. Not upheld.
Game of Two Halves. Included woman whipping man’s partially bare buttocks. Good taste and decency, and violence. Not upheld.