Former Newstalk ZB host Kate Hawkesby breached broadcasting standards with “exaggerated and misleading” comments about Māori and Pacific patients being.
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 Authority has upheld a complaint .
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A review of the Cyclone Gabrielle response found the emergency management response was not fit for purpose - and not good for media providing critical 'real time' coverage of the disaster. But one broadcaster that's criticised officials for being overconfident and underprepared also downplayed the danger at the time.