Goodnight Sweetheart promo. Complaint about the "general crudity" of a promo broadcast in PGR time and the use of a particular phrase. Upheld (good taste and decency). No order.
All Decisions
One Network News. Item reported that Tauranga's Bethlehem College had banned "Bad Jelly the Witch" because and banned every mention of a witch. Upheld (accuracy). No order.
60 Minutes. Interview of Stuart Scott, the author of a book entitled "The Travesty of Waitangi". Not upheld (balance, accuracy, fairness, discrimination and denigration).
Shortland Street. Episode showed a character's mock crucifixion and subsequent imitation of self-mutilation with a knife. Not upheld (good taste and decency, responsible programming, children's interests).
Newsnight. Items which investigated the claimed increase in popularity in strip shows in America featured a strip club in Auckland's Fort Street. Declined to determine (balance).
One Network News. Reports that the industrial dispute in Paris was spreading to other parts of France and that there had been scuffles between strikers and anti-strike protesters. Not upheld (balance, responsible programming).
One Network News. Item dealt with range of work now undertaken by dentists. Item also reported that the diversity was the result of a decline in the level of tooth decay over the past 25 years which coincided with the period during which much of the country's water supply had been fluoridated. Not upheld (balance).
TV2 commercial breaks, 9 advertisements involving liquor. TVNZ upheld the complaint. Not upheld (liquor): action taken sufficient.
Newsnight. Reporter's comment about "a Speights" and the statement about drowning sorrows. Upheld (liquor). No order.
93FM Hastings morning show. Remarks about Executive Officer of the Hastings A & P Society who had questioned the station manager as to why a crew had attended the A & P show without prior arrangement and in a vehicle used for promotional purposes. Radio hosts later apologised. Not upheld (good taste and decency, privacy, accuracy): action taken sufficient.