Campbell Live to aplogise over staged interview

The Broadcasting Standards Authority has upheld a complaint against a staged Campbell Live interview with an actor pretending to be the man responsible for stealing war medals from the Waiouru Army Museum.

The interview featured a hooded man with his face in shadow. At the time the show told viewers the voice was that of an actor but did not reveal the man on screen as also an actor.

While TV3 have publicly admitted using an actor, the BSA ruling was made based on the fact that no correction had been announced on the Campbell Live show itself.

TV3 Head of News and Current Affairs, Mark Jennings, said that no cameras had been at the original interview so it was recorded on a Dictaphone tape, which was then transcribed. He said that there was "no intention to stage or try to mislead."

John Campbell will now have to run a public statement agreeing that his interview with the medal thief was misleading.