Comments by radio host Kate Hawkesby suggesting Māori and Pacific patients were being prioritised for surgery due to their ethnicity were misleading and discriminatory, the Broadcasting Standards Authority has found.
The decisions can be found here.
The Authority has not upheld a complaint that RNZ breached the accuracy and balance standards by including a statement in a news bulletin that Israel was ‘carpet bombing the Palestinian…
The Authority has not upheld two complaints that it was inaccurate/unbalanced for a 1News item to say land in central Auckland was ‘gifted’ by Ngāti Whātua to the Crown in…
The Authority has not upheld a complaint under multiple standards about a 1News item covering a Hobson’s Pledge campaign against bilingual road signage.
The Authority has partially upheld a complaint over the accuracy of an item on Newshub Live at 6pm about a person alleged to have harmed greyhounds.
The Authority has not upheld a complaint that a 1News item reporting on the 7 October 2023 Hamas attack on Israel was inaccurate.