One News. Item stated American army offered to build Transmission Gully road in the 1940s. Accuracy, balance and fairness. Not upheld.
Sex and the City. Contained sex scenes. Children. Not upheld.
One News. Footage of street scenes in India. Good taste and decency. Not upheld.
Checkpoint. Interview with Napier resident watching police trying to deal with an armed man barricaded in a house. Law and order. Not upheld.
Criminal Minds promo. Featured prostitute who had been killing clients. Programme classification and children’s interests, upheld. Good taste and decency, subsumed. Accuracy, not upheld. No order.
Breakfast. Host’s comments about campervans. Good taste and decency, accuracy and fairness. Not upheld.
Breakfast. Host made comments about the programme’s blind producer. Good taste and decency. Not upheld.
3 News. Follow-up to TV3 special investigation Let Us Spray said that Ministry of Health had “finally admitted it tests positive for political contamination”. Balance, subsumed. Fairness, accuracy, upheld. No order.
3 News. Item referring to previous evening's TV3 special investigation Let Us Spray discussed a serum study investigating exposure to dioxins among residents of Paritutu. Balance, fairness, accuracy. Upheld. Orders (broadcast of statement, $3,000 costs to ESR, $2,500 costs to the Crown).
Let Us Spray. Special TV3 investigation into the effects of the chemical 2,4,5-T in New Zealand interviewed residents of Paritutu who believed that various illnesses and birth defects in their families were a result of exposure to the chemical. Upheld (balance, fairness). Subsumed (accuracy). Order (broadcast of statement).