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).
Campbell Live. Interview with “medal thief”. Accuracy, upheld. Order (broadcast of statement).
3 News. Item about Work and Income using taxpayers’ money to pay, on behalf of beneficiaries, the penalty fees incurred in retrieving their impounded cars. Balance, not upheld. Accuracy and fairness, declined to determine.
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).
Scrubs. Storyline involved a patient who had taken erectile dysfunction pills. Children’s interests. Not upheld.
One News. Duck hunter pointed a rifle at the camera. Good taste and decency and violence, subsumed. Law and order, not upheld.
Target. Presenter's comment on what phone operators had said. Privacy. 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.
One News. Item looked at a couple running the One World Foundation who had been banned from Samoa because of allegations regarding the legitimacy of their work. Balance, accuracy and fairness. Not upheld.
Breakfast. Presenter’s comment about people who have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Good taste and decency. Not upheld.