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The complainant did not identify a person or organisation said to be treated unfairly in the broadcast so the fairness standard did not apply.Not Upheld: Accuracy, FairnessThe broadcast[1] An item on Newshub Live at 6pm on 5 September 2021 reported on a trend of people using ivermectin to treat or prevent COVID-19.
It also found the two interviewees were treated fairly and the interviews represented what it expects of the media in performing its role of scrutinising and holding to account those in power.Not Upheld: Balance, Accuracy, FairnessThe broadcast[1] In the 19 June 2021 episode of Newshub Nation, Tova O’Brien interviewed Transport Minister Hon Michael Wood, and the MP for Rongotai, Paul Eagle.The complaint[2] Gary Wills complained the broadcast breached the balance, accuracy and fairness standards
Summary[This summary does not form part of the decision.]The Authority has declined to determine a complaint an item on Newshub Live at 6pm breached the accuracy and balance standards, for including a statement linking the Auckland Anniversary floods to climate change. The complainant considered the broadcast should not have contained reference to climate change, and that climate change should not be presented as fact.
Summary [This summary does not form part of the decision.]The Authority has not upheld an accuracy complaint about an item on Newshub Live at 6pm which referred to ‘countless drive-by shooting incidents in recent weeks’, in the context of reporting on community efforts to limit gang tension and violence in Auckland in the lead up to a Tonga national rugby league match.
Summary [This summary does not form part of the decision.]The Authority has not upheld a complaint that a Newshub Live at 6pm report regarding water fluoridation and the Three Waters proposal breached the balance, accuracy and fairness standards.
In the maps broadcast since, Newshub has shown clearly Crimea as under Russian control, rather than as a part of Russian territory.’ ‘While the map did not go through all of the necessary checks, we… maintain the resulting content did not materially mislead the audience.’
’s piece, Newshub has presented an inaccurate picture of literary practices, and has promoted National’s policy to adopt Structured Literacy as if it is the main alternative to Balanced Literacy, ignoring the other science-based and evidence-based options being used in New Zealand.’
The Authority has not upheld a complaint alleging footage during a Newshub Live at 6pm item showing a rugby league player throwing up on the side of the field during a match breached the good taste and decency standard.
The Authority did not uphold the complaint, finding the brief, off the cuff comment was unlikely to encourage illegal or antisocial behaviour.Not Upheld: Promotion of Illegal or Antisocial BehaviourThe broadcast[1] An item on Newshub Live at 6pm on 21 September 2022 reported on artist Tāme Iti correcting his name on an artwork by Dean Proudfoot.
Not Upheld: Privacy The broadcasts and background [1] On 11 and 12 April 2019, Newshub and The AM Show reported on a Police raid of a gang house.
In considering Mr Malone’s complaint about the Newshub item, we determined that:4The use of this phrase (synthetic cannabis) and similar phrases used in the broadcast to describe the products was not inaccurate or misleading.
The Authority did not uphold a complaint that a Newshub Live at 6pm report into the crash of China Eastern Flight MU5735 breached the accuracy, fairness, and discrimination and denigration standards. The complaint was in relation to speculation the crash might have been due to a deliberate act from the cockpit.
(online ed, 20 June 2023); “Leading economist Cameron Bagrie slams Government’s banking probe as ‘pure politics’” Newshub (online ed, 27 June 2023); Jamie Ensor “Government confirms Commerce Commission market study of banking” Newshub (online ed, 20 June 2023); Amelia Wade “Market study into banks on cards as Govt faces pressure to investigate eyewatering profits” Newshub (online ed, 9 March 2023); Raphael Franks and Sam Hurley “Bank profits: Commerce Commission inquiry set to be launched tomorrow
Summary [This summary does not form part of the decision.]The Authority has not upheld a complaint about an interview on Newshub Nation, featuring electrical engineer and Pike River Mine researcher, Richard Healey. Mr Healey commented on his claims of ‘new crucial evidence’ the miners could have survived the explosions and of the existence of a pipeline which could be used to recover more evidence.
Viewers would have had sufficient information to exercise choice and control.Not Upheld: Children’s Interests, ViolenceThe broadcast[1] A sports news item on NewsHub Live at 6pm covering the outcome of an Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) fight was introduced as followed:Sixth on the ladder, a bloodied, bruised and stitched up Dan Hooker has posted a video assuring his fans he's OK following his brutal defeat to Dustin Poirier and what was dubbed the fight of the year.
Similar footage, broadcast by Newshub on 30 June 2019, was also the subject of a previous complaint by Mr Arps (see Arps and Television New Zealand Ltd, Decision No. 2019-073A)9 Guideline 11d10 See, for example, article in footnote 8 and The Queen v Philip Neville Arps [2019] NZDC 1154711 Guideline 11b
This was an important issue for New Zealand voters in the lead up to the election, which had the potential to impact on their voting decisions.[14] However, we are satisfied that viewers were given a wide range of perspectives on the issue during the Newshub Leaders Debate, and in surrounding media, to enable them to make their own assessment of the issue.
Newshub Live at 4.30pm is unclassified news programming. It was clear the images were of sportswomen in the middle of a game and were not titillating or gratuitous. The clip did not show close ups of the women’s uniforms and was not sexual in nature. [13] Footage of athletes competing in bikinis was not outside viewer expectations for a story which opened ‘…female beach handball players will no longer have to compete in skimpy bikinis’.
Summary[This summary does not form part of the decision.]The Authority declined to determine a complaint about the use of te reo Māori on Newshub Live at 6pm. Te reo Māori is an official New Zealand language. Its use is a matter of editorial discretion appropriately determined by broadcasters.
The Authority considered that the complaint raised issues which were editorial decisions not properly addressed by broadcasting standards, so should not be determined by the Authority.Declined to Determine: Good Taste and Decency (section 11(b) of the Broadcasting Act)The broadcast[1] On 14 May 2021, Newshub Late, broadcast on Three, covered developments in Gaza:Israeli tanks and troops are amassing on the border with Gaza tonight, signalling another escalation in the conflict.