Saturday, August 27, 2011

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Australia's Channel Nine Network sacks two journalists for faking footage

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Saturday, August 27, 2011

Channel Nine in Brisbane have fired two journalists and a producer for faking two live news crosses to aerial footage above the site of a search. In a live news cross, journalists broadcast back to the newsroom in real time when an event is happening.

Melissa Mallet and Cameron Price and Producer Aaron Wakely were sacked by the Nine Network after rival Channel Seven broadcast footage of the Nine News helicopter sitting on the helipad filming the reporters, which was supposed to be in the air near the site of a search for the remains of a missing schoolboy, Daniel Morcombe. Channel Nine began an investigation after the footage.

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