Wham, bam, thank you Paul: TVNZ upholds 1500 complaints against Henry
ABOVE: Happy times - Paul Henry accepts his People's Choice gong at the Qantas Film & Television Award, September 18 ... a month and a lifetime ago. (Warning language will - as history has recorded - offend.)
TVNZ has today upheld around 1500 viewer complaints made against Paul Henry.
The state-owned broadcaster said the number was a record.
So, presumably, is the brief time TVNZ has spent dispatching them.
Members of the public complained in record numbers after the former Breakfast host questioned whether Governor-General Sir Anand Satyanand was "even a New Zealander", the broadcaster said on its website this afternoon.
TVNZ ruled today that each broadcast breached three broadcasting standards and apologised. The standards include good taste and decency, fairness and discrimination and denigration.
A spokeswoman's comments that Henry says what others think but are afraid to say was outside the Broadcasting Standards Authority's remit as it was not broadcast, TVNZ said. However, it apologised to people who complained about it.
Mr Henry resigned last week (read 'Astonished and dismayed' Paul Henry resigns from TVNZ).
NBR staff
Mon, 18 Oct 2010
Mon, 18 Oct 2010
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Wham, bam, thank you Paul: TVNZ upholds 1500 complaints against Henry
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