RESEARCH AND REPORTS NGĀ RANGAHAU ME NGĀ PŪRONGO

Research commissioned by the BSA and statutory publications including Annual Reports, SOIs and SPEs

Litmus Testing 2018



This year’s Litmus Testing research reports on what the public thinks about some of the BSA’s recent decisions on the Fairness Standard. The decisions considered complaints about The Block NZ: Villa Wars, Newshub, Story and Seven Sharp.

The majority of research participants agreed with the BSA’s decisions for all four programmes, with an average of 90% of participants rating the BSA’s decisions as very good, good or acceptable.

You can read the research findings here: