60 Minutes. Item about Commerce Commission’s prosecution of a man marketing a fertiliser system. Accuracy, not upheld. Balance and fairness, upheld. Orders (broadcast of statement, $2,182.50 costs to complainant, $2,000 costs to Crown).
Underbelly. Programme about mafia-type gangs in Melbourne included coarse language, nudity, drugs and violence. Good taste and decency. Not upheld.
Dexter. Fictional drama about a forensic expert leading a double life as a serial killer. Law and order and violence. Not upheld
Radio New Zealand National News. Item concerning MAF’s approval of the importation by zoos of crocodiles and salt-water alligators. Accuracy and social responsibility. Not upheld.
Two and a Half Men promo. Language of characters. Good taste and decency, programme classification, children’s interests. Not upheld.
Target. Item about the experience of a man who purchased the “Hire A Hubby” franchise for the suburb of Greenlane in Auckland. Accuracy and fairness. Not upheld.
Ugly Betty promo. Classified G but contained sexual themes. Good taste and decency, subsumed. Programme classification, upheld. Children’s interests, upheld. No order.
Skin Doctors. Followed a woman who was having breast augmentation surgery. Privacy, upheld. Orders (broadcast of statement, $5,000 to complainant for breach of privacy, $10,000 costs to complainant, $3,000 costs to Crown).
Breakfast. Presenter’s comment about people who have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Good taste and decency. Not upheld.
Breakfast. Item reported that two bodies had been found on top of a rail “carriage”. Accuracy. Not upheld.