The NZ Media Council has upheld a complaint against a RNZ story on accuracy.
The story titled Florist says Julie Anne Genter exchange was a ‘massive imbalance of power’ was about a Wellington florist’s claim of being bullied by Green MP Julie Anne Genter over a controversial cycleway project in Newtown.
The article incorrectly claimed that car parks were removed from outside the florist’s shop to make way for a cycleway.
Complainant Tom Pearce provided photographic evidence showing there have never been car parks or a cycleway directly outside the shop on Riddiford Street.
I’ve been reading a lot of American news lately and while that’s a dumb mistake for rnz to make it’s refreshing to see a falsehood be corrected.
A bit weird that they fought it, though. With the ruling they were told if they had corrected it as soon as they had been told then they wouldn’t have had a problem.