TVNZ is considering an appeal against the Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) order to pay the Samoan government $5,000 in legal costs. Complaints were laid by Samoa’s Attorney General after an April 2009 One News/Tagata Pasifika item which suggested Samoa was “awash with guns and drugs”.
In summary, the complaint was addressed under the standards of balance, accuracy, fairness and law and order, with two complaints (balance and accuracy) upheld and one part of the fairness complaint upheld.
