The BSA has declined to uphold a complaint about a news item demonstrating sustainable period products, which included the use of red-tinted liquid.
We’ve released 4 decisions.
One relates to a good taste and decency complaint over comments by hosts on The Project describing Taika Waititi and Chris Hemsworth as ‘hot’, with reference to seeing ‘the full…
In one, the Authority has not upheld a complaint under the discrimination and denigration standard in relation to comments on Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive about a celebrity dining at an…
The Authority has declined to determine a complaint regarding a broadcast including an interview with a lawyer who was represented as a ‘political commentator’.
One relates to a privacy complaint about a 1 News item reporting on Kamahl Santamaria’s resignation from Breakfast. This was not upheld. The decisions can be seen here.
The Broadcasting Standards Authority has upheld aspects of seven complaints under the privacy and fairness standards, regarding broadcasts by RNZ which included material stolen from the former Waikato District Health…