The decision upheld aspects of seven complaints under the privacy and fairness standards regarding RNZ reporting on a child in the care of Oranga Tamariki.
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The Broadcasting Standards Authority has upheld a complaint an item on Fair Go dealing with various issues arising from a house being built breached the accuracy and fairness standards.
One relates to a complaint that two items on 1 News concerning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine breached multiple standards. This was not upheld. The decisions can be seen here.
One relates to a complaint the comment ‘pale, male and stale’ in an item on local government diversity breached the discrimination and denigration standard. This was not upheld.
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One decision relates to a complaint that it was inappropriate for the AM Show to broadcast multiple images of spiders due to viewers potentially having arachnophobia.
As concerns over misinformation and disinformation soar, accuracy regularly ranks as the most complained-about of the broadcasting standards the BSA oversees.