More FM news bulletin. Item about firearms included comment from a spokesperson from Gunsafe but nothing from a representative of the Sporting Shooters Association. Declined to determine (balance): no tape or transcript of the item complained about.
Police Stop! Programme featured road accident where two motorcycle riders were killed. A promo for the programme broadcast before the item was screened, included part of the speeding incident and footage of the scene of the fatal accident. Upheld: promo (fairness). Not upheld: programme (good taste and decency, accuracy, fairness, discrimination and denigration, responsible programming, children's interests, violence). No order.
Top o' the Morning: "Brian's Week". The presenter discussed gun ownership, questioning the practice of allowing people to own a device which, he said, was "intended to maim and kill". Not upheld (balance, discrimination and denigration),
In Touch with New Zealand. Discussion on the imminent coming into force of the Domestic Violence Act 1996 between a representative from each of the Law Society, Women's Refuge, and the Department of Courts. Not upheld (balance, discrimination and denigration).
Nightline. News item dealt with apology from the Police for the deficiencies in the original investigation into the death of a 12-year-old girl. Complaint about showing post-mortem photographs of a dead child. Not upheld (fairness: unnecessary intrusion into grief).
Nightline. "The matriarch of the world's most dysfunctional family is resting tonight" was the introduction to a news item about the Queen Mother's 96th birthday. Upheld (accuracy). Not upheld (discrimination and denigration). No order.
Ice TV. Comment on road safety by one of the presenters of a programme targeted at teenagers. Not upheld (law and order, accuracy, responsible programming, children's interests).
Beyond 2000. Item concerned with the build up of bacteria in the sand included some shots of women sunbathing topless on a beach. Programme was screened at 7.00pm. Not upheld (good taste and decency, children's interests).
Muppets Tonight. Model Cindy Crawford was a guest on the show and the dialogue included a reference to balloons. Complaint that it was an offensive comment made in the context of a children's programme. Not upheld (good taste and decency).
Holmes. Interview with author of the recently published index of paedophile offenders raised the issue of paedophilia as a behavioural trait over which some men may have no control. Complaint that the assumption in the interviewer's comment that paedophilia was uncontrollable was not challenged. Not upheld (good taste and decency, law and order, children's interests).