Desperate Housewives promo. Showed couples kissing and sexual themes. Children’s interests. Upheld. No order.
Close Up. Allegations that Gisborne soccer player was racist and a wife-beater. Balance, not upheld. Fairness, accuracy, upheld. Orders (broadcast of statement, $2,500 costs to complainant, $2,500 costs to Crown).
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).
Inside New Zealand: “What’s Really in our Food”. Documentary about safety of food additives. Balance, fairness, not upheld. Accuracy, upheld. No order.
The Go Show. Item about ‘the right thing to do’. Children’s interests. Not upheld.
Peewee’s Sister. Short story involved scuffles between children. Social responsibility (children), not upheld. Good taste and decency, law and order, subsumed.
Sensing Murder: Insight. Commentary by psychics. Accuracy. Not upheld.
Fair Go. Conversation on phone. Law and order, privacy, fairness. Not upheld.
Promo for F**k Off I’m Small. Screening during PGR-rated programme. Good taste and decency and programme classification standards. Not upheld.
Eating Media Lunch. Masturbation of penis-shaped dildo. Good taste and decency. Not upheld.