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The BSA has not upheld a complaint about a Midday Report segment on Charlie Kirk’s death, including a recording of Kirk’s final interaction and the gunshot that killed him. The complainant considered it offensive and lacking in decency to broadcast Kirk’s final moments
Noting the significant public interest in the segment, the BSA found no harm justifying its intervention to limit the broadcaster’s freedom of expression. The privacy standard did not apply
The BSA has not upheld a complaint that two Morning Report interviews, about funding for a campaign to encourage Māori to register on the Māori electoral roll, were inaccurate and displayed ‘anti-Māori bias’
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The BSA has not upheld two complaints about a 1News item on the Government’s rejection of an application to officially change the name of Russell to the town’s original name, Kororāreka
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The issue has been the subject of other coverage, meaning the likelihood of any real harm or the audience being left uninformed was reduced, and did not outweigh the broadcaster’s freedom of expression
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The BSA has upheld an accuracy complaint about a 1News report on the Government’s new Investment Boost scheme, finding the item overstated the tax savings available under the scheme
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The reference to deductions being “20% off their ‘tax bill’”, rather than deducting 20% of a new asset’s value from a business’s ‘taxable income’, was materially inaccurate in the context, the BSA found
The BSA has not upheld a complaint that an RNZ interview with Dame Jacinda Ardern breached multiple standards when presenter Jesse Mulligan used the word ‘prick’ when asking Ardern about a past comment she made in Parliament
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The Authority found it was low-level language that would not have surprised or offended most listeners in the context or alarmed or distressed any children who happened to be listening