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Summary[This summary does not form part of the decision.]An item on Newshub reported on the Government’s upcoming review of KiwiRail’s operational and funding models. The item featured interviews with Transport Minister, Simon Bridges, NZ First leader, Winston Peters, and Prime Minister Bill English. The reporter commented that KiwiRail had been a ‘black hole’ for tax payers and ‘a giant problem for this Government’.
Relevant contextual factors in this case include:Newshub is an unclassified news programme screened at 6pm each weekday Newshub is targeted at an adult audience the nature of news programmes, which frequently contain strong or adult material such as crime or violence.
This is a breach of children in care’s right to privacy and an exploitation of them.The broadcaster’s response[4] Discovery NZ did not consider the item breached the privacy standard because:‘The focus of the Newshub story was on the political fallout of the uplift.’ ‘The faces of the children and their location are not identified in the Newshub broadcast.
In any event, at the end of the Newshub Nation item the reporter clearly acknowledged more than 20% of voters were undecided as to which candidate to support.
Summary[This summary does not form part of the decision.]The Authority did not uphold a complaint that a Newshub report regarding government employees accessing pornographic sites while at work breached the good taste and decency and children’s interests standards. The Newshub report included images of web addresses for the sites accessed.
Summary [This summary does not form part of the decision.]The Authority has not upheld a complaint alleging an item on Newshub Live at 6pm lacked balance. The item reported on reactions to the sentencing of a person involved in the ‘coward punch’ death of a prominent Auckland kickboxer. A person’s sentencing is not a controversial issue of public importance, so the balance standard does not apply.
6.615 “Anti-trans activist rally organiser defends event” RNZ (online ed, 21 March 2023); “Posie Parker: Anti-trans rally attracted a range of far-right groups, researchers say” New Zealand Herald (online ed, 28 March 2023); Seni Lasona “Anti-transgender activist Posie Parker announces political party, calls protesters ‘terrorists’” Newshub (29 March 2023); Amelia Wade ‘Posie Parker: Counter-protests planned as anti-trans protester gets greenlight for NZ travel, Labour MP expected to attend’ Newshub
(online ed, 23 June 2020 (from RNZ)); “Forestry sector insists it's not the 'big bad wolf' coming after farmers' land” Newshub (online ed, 6 July 2020); “Forestry sector stresses 'right tree, right place' approach as debate over carbon farming continues” Newshub (online ed, 28 July 2020)9 Gerard Hutching “Carbon farming can provide better returns than sheep and beef” Stuff (2 May 2019); Kate Newton & Guyon Espiner “Green Rush: Will pines really save the planet?”
The case carried significant public interest and therefore it was reasonable for Newshub to report the details of the case following the lapse of the suppression order. While MediaWorks understood the complainant’s concerns, it was not practicable for Newshub to examine the wider issues proposed by the complainant within the limited scope of the broadcast. A Newshub item broadcast the following day (4 February 2017) included a subsequent report about the case.
Summary [This summary does not form part of the decision.]The Authority did not uphold a complaint about a Newshub Live at 6pm item on the Paralympics depicting a hug between sisters Lisa Adams and Dame Valerie Adams. The complaint was that the broadcast breached the good taste and decency, children’s interests, and law and order standards as the Paralympics occurred amid the COVID-19 pandemic, whilst various physical distancing restrictions were in force.
In any event, the complainant’s concerns were communicated to Newshub’s Head of Television News. It was relevant to note that the identity of the child featured in the report was comprehensively masked, and the individual who shouted ‘How’s your holiday?’ was a member of the public, and not a reporter.
Summary[This summary does not form part of the decision.]An item on Newshub reported on the shooting of two Israeli police officers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem. The segment featured footage of officers being chased and shot at, followed by footage of a man being surrounded and shot at, a blurred shot of a dead body on the ground and a body bag on a stretcher.
Summary[This summary does not form part of the decision.]The Authority has not upheld a complaint an item on Newshub Live at 6pm breached the discrimination and denigration standard in its discussion of the social media and wider impact of the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial.
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 reporting on clashes between mourners and Israeli police at the funeral of a Palestinian-American journalist in East Jerusalem. Footage of the events was accompanied by a caption onscreen stating ‘Jerusalem, Israel,’ which the complainant considered was inaccurate.
Summary[This summary does not form part of the decision.]The Authority has not upheld a complaint about an item on Newshub Live at 6pm, which discussed a draft film script for the proposed film They Are Us, based on events surrounding the Christchurch terror attack on 15 March 2019.
Summary [This summary does not form part of the decision.]The Authority has not upheld a complaint an item on Newshub Live at 6pm breached the discrimination and denigration standard. The item reported on the appointment of Chris Hipkins and Carmel Sepuloni as the new Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, and discussed the high levels of diversity in the top four positions in Cabinet.
The nature of Newshub Nation is political and argumentative in its presentation of robust debate. Audiences would expect a robust and critical line of questioning from Ms O’Brien as a political reporter.
Summary[This summary does not form part of the decision.]The Authority did not uphold an accuracy complaint about a Newshub item describing a storm in Australia as a ‘one in 100 year storm’. The statement was a technical point unlikely to significantly affect the audience’s understanding of the item as a whole.Not Upheld: AccuracyThe broadcast[1] An item on Newshub Live at 6pm on 15 December 2020 reported:The coast of Australia has been battered by a one in 100 year monster storm.
In the Newshub 6pm bulletin that day, on 18 March, the AM clip was rebroadcast as part of a wider story about the Prime Minister calling on all MPs to maintain civility in our politics.’ ‘On Tuesday 19 March, the New Zealand First Party issued a press release1 which outlined Mr Peters' comments from his State of the Nation Address and refuted allegations that he had referred to the Holocaust. This was faithfully reported by Newshub Live At 6pm that evening in the 19 March bulletin.’
The balance standard did not apply.Not Upheld: Good taste and decency, Children’s interests, BalanceThe broadcasts[1] Two broadcasts of Newshub Live at 6pm on 14 and 15 April 2021 reported on developments with the COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand.