Pulsate Wanaka Big Air. Presenter's comment. Not upheld (discrimination and denigration).
All Decisions
Morning Report. Item dealt with controversial government proposal to enact legislation dealing with crimes of home invasion. Upheld: majority (accuracy). Subsumed (distinguishing of factual reporting, correcting of factual errors, reliability of news sources). No order.
The Rock. Morning broadcast included a "joke" about an Indian superette owner and his Pakistani worker. Upheld (good taste and decency, discrimination and denigration). Order (statement, $500 costs to Crown).
Target. Programme reported on four appliance repair centres that had been given a faulty microwave oven to repair, one of which repaired the microwave by bypassing the variable power switch with the result that it could only operate on high power. Not upheld (fairness).
Holmes: Eyes Wide Shut, and trailers. Film was subject of an item broadcast on Holmes and trailers for the programme were shown earlier on the same day. Complaint that the scenes of lovemaking and nakedness were unsuitable for television viewing, particularly at a time when children would be watching. Not upheld (good taste and decency, programme classification, children's interests, violence).
Good Morning and trailer. The INCIS police contract cancellation by IBM was the subject of a talkback/voteline segment. Not upheld (balance): action taken sufficient.
One Network News. Item about the squalid living conditions of a Wanganui woman and her cats. Not upheld (privacy).
Primal Fear. Film concerned the trial of a young man accused of the murder of a Roman Catholic archbishop. Not upheld (good taste and decency, balance).
One Network News. Item reporting on the result of a One Network News/Colmar Brunton political poll allegedly incorrectly linked voter support to the potential composition of a future Parliament. Not upheld (accuracy; respionsible programming: not misleading or alarming).
Stella Street. Short film of a comedy programme featuring two impersonators who lampoon the performance style of the well-known characters that they portray. Not upheld (good taste and decency).