News report breaches privacy right of wife of driver in accident, says CBSC

OTTAWA – A news interview with the wife of a driver involved in a vehicle accident breached her right to privacy due to the manner in which her words were obtained, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) has found.On March 15, 2010, CHCH-TV aired a news report about a collision between a minivan and a motorcycle that had left the motorcycle driver in hospital. The report featured a film clip of the wife of the minivan driver, despite the wife’s request that the clip not be used in the broadcast. The March 15 report was a follow-up to the initial...