Correction - Press Council ruling on breach of embargo
Six members (not seven as originally stated) of the
New Zealand Press Council voted not to uphold a complaint by
Disability Issues Minister Ruth Dyson against the Dominion
for breaching an embargo on the announcement that the
Kimberley Centre was to close.
Four members of the
council voted to uphold the complaint.
The eleventh
member of the council, Dominion journalist Alan Samson, did
not take part in the decision.
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