Eating Media Lunch. Subliminal message flashed on screen. Programme information, good taste and decency, law and order, children’s interests. Not upheld.
3 News. Results of political poll. Accuracy. Upheld. No order.
Hell’s Kitchen: Served Raw. Swearing and blasphemy. Good taste and decency. Not upheld.
20/20: “Guerrilla Marc[eting]”. Item about promotional stunt involving discharging explosives on Rangitoto Island. Law and order, fairness. Not upheld.
Line of Beauty. Homosexual sex scenes. Good taste and decency. Not upheld.
Nine to Noon. Item about review of Domestic Violence Act 1995. Balance. Not upheld.
Sunday. Alleged forgery of a signature on painting. Fairness, accuracy, law and order, privacy and balance. Not upheld.
Criminal Minds promo. Promo for episode about serial killer. Violence, subsumed. Children’s interests, programme classification, upheld. No order.
3 News, Nightline and Campbell Live. Series of items about David Benson-Pope seeking re-election. Accuracy, fairness, balance, good taste and decency. Not upheld.
Pacific Coast FM interview discussing local politics in Whitianga. Fairness, balance, upheld. Accuracy, declined to determine. Good taste and decency, social responsibility, not upheld. Order (broadcast of statement, $900 costs to complainants).