Comment fails to breach media standards During a live broadcast from Riccarton Park racecourse, one of the hosts of the ZM drive show said to her cohosts, “You’ve obviously watched the race. I know you haven’t put any bets on because you’re both Jews.” The Broadcasting Standards Authority did not uphold the complaint saying that while the comment was ignorant and perpetuated stereotypes it did not reach the high threshold necessary for encouraging the denigration of, or discrimination against, Jewish people as a section of the community. Press Council uphold race complaints The Press Council upheld a complaint that a Waikato Times article placed unnecessary emphasis on the race of two men found guilty of rape. The men were described by the paper as being of Fijian-Indian descent. The Council upheld the complaint that the pair’s ethnicity was of no relevance to their crime and reference to it was gratuitous. It also firmly criticised an article in The Press (Weekend) newspaper which implied that an increase in chlamydia in the Canterbury region was linked to Irish workers. The Council said that the link between Irish nationals and the sexual health statistics was of the newspaper’s making and not supported by any reported information. It also said that a cartoon accompanying the article was inappropriate and offensive to many. Tüi Tüi Tuituiä | Race Relations in 2013 59