Whoa!
Who is the Tobacco Pimp at Stuff 6pm ThreeNews?
ThreeNews’ ‘regret’ over 6pm report
Stuff’s ThreeNews bulletin broadcast its “regret” this week over two stories which were found to have breached several broadcasting standards last July.
Stuff took over production and responsibility of the 6pm ThreeNews bulletin for Warner Bros Discovery last July. On July 26, it broadcast a story alleging links between anti-smoking group Ash and the pro-vaping lobby in Australia.
In a scathing decision, the Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) found the first story breached fairness, balance and accuracy standards.
“The BSA concluded the broadcast created a misleading, unbalanced and unfairly negative impression of Ash by favouring critical perspectives and failing to adequately present Ash’s position,“ ThreeNews newsreader Laura Tupou said during Tuesday evening’s bulletin.
A second report on July 30 claimed a school had refused to allow its students to participate in Ash’s annual Year 10 vaping survey “due to concerns about Ash’s stance on youth vaping”.
“The BSA found this misleading and unfair as it presented outdated information as breaking news without telling viewers the information was from 2021,” Tupou said.
“The BSA concluded that ThreeNews failed to ensure accuracy by not providing important factual context.
“The comment from Ash included in the report did not adequately respond to the issues raised.”
Tupou said the authority “highlighted shortfalls in editorial processes and oversight, emphasising the need for accuracy and fairness in reporting”.
“ThreeNews regrets the errors that were made in these circumstances.
“The authority ordered the broadcast of this statement to publicly acknowledge the breach of broadcasting standards to our audience and to remedy the potential damage done to Ash’s and its director’s reputation.”
Warner Bros Discovery earlier referred comment to Stuff.
Stuff editor-in-chief Keith Lynch said in a statement: “Stuff regrets the errors that were made in this circumstance and accepts the authority’s findings.
“We are committed to upholding the highest journalistic standards across all of our channels and products. We have now produced almost 300 ThreeNews bulletins for Warner Bros Discovery, with this BSA decision the only finding against our reporting.”
The full BSA decision can be read here.
This is such a remarkable achievement from the Tobacco Industry, they have managed to pimp their way into the ThreeNews Editorial Team and are pretending their bullshit press releases are actual news rather than Tobacco Propaganda!
This is incredible manoeuvring for the Tobacco Industry to manage to trick a supposedly legitimate news site into peddling their lies.
Who is running ThreeNews? Casey Costello?
Well played Tobacco Industry, ThreeNews you should feel deeply ashamed.
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Martyn – Hence why due to the poor performance of the main-stream media, people’s trust in them has fallen over.
Totally ignoring the fact that this frequently lying con artist of a MP has been exposed by the media, if you can actually read, and nothing happens. This is like your position on the IDF. In your world they are only complete arseholes because Hamas exists. You never consider that maybe Hamas exist because the lying thieving Zionists create the environment for them (oh and actually funding Hamas historically probably helped).
Wheel – Feel better getting that off your chest? Now to answer your points
– The media’s performance, apart from TDB and others, is rubbish, hence why trust in the media has collapsed
– IDF MUST defend the State of Israel, and Israelis, including the 2 million Arab (mostly Palestinian) Israelis by law
– Hama was a charity at its founding, offering education, health, and social services to ALL Arabs across Israel
– Israel funded Hamas to provide those services, and to break the influence of the PLO
– Funding stopped once Hamas was hijacked by terrorists
I’ve never trusted the Newstalk ZB media nor the NZ Herald.
National are Squeaky Clean – Me too.
Yep. you just cant help not being a ginormous douche canoe, can you?
“IDF MUST defend the State of Israel, and Israelis, including the 2 million Arab (mostly Palestinian) Israelis by law”
Whose law?
ans: Their own self-serving law.
Richard Christie – History makes a liar out of that statement.
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