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60 Minutes: May 29

Well, well..... 60 Minutes will interview Gerald Stone about its own internal review.

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Try not to look surprised.

60 Minutes has managed to find a way to feature a story on its Lebanon debacle -with Michael Usher interviewing Gerald Stone, who was in charge of Nine’s internal review.

Stone also wrote the book “Who Killed Channel Nine?”

Bad Grandpas
Crime is never a laughing matter but the sheer audacity and extraordinary ingenuity of a gang of pensioner-aged British crooks has certainly made many people smile. Last year the daring villains used their substantial experience to plan and pull off the biggest burglary in English history. The Hatton Garden vault in the heart of London held hundreds of safe deposit boxes, full of jewellery, cash and other treasure. It was said to be impenetrable until the bad grandpas proved that boast a lie. They got away with over $25 million worth of loot. But the old-timers made one mistake, and it would cost them dearly.
Reporter: Liz Hayes
Producer: Gareth Harvey

Saving the Children
Eleven years ago Tara Winkler was a naive 19-year-old living a sheltered life in Bondi when she decided to travel to Cambodia for a holiday. Prosperity to poverty was certainly eye-opening for her, especially when she visited little children in the country’s many orphanages. Tara fell in love with them – it’s impossible not to – and she vowed to rescue as many kids as she could. She started up her own charity and home and raised her profile back in Australia to raise money for the orphans of Cambodia. Then she discovered she had been completely fooled because, as it turned out, most of her “orphans” had parents and families. But instead of giving up she decided to expose this cynical tourist trap, and then save the children in a completely new way.
Reporter: Allison Langdon
Producer: Laura Sparkes

Beirut: What Went Wrong?
Today the Nine Entertainment Company released the findings of an inquiry into what went wrong when 60 Minutes tried to tell the story of Brisbane mother Sally Faulkner and her attempts to regain custody of her two children. Michael Usher speaks with one of the report’s authors, founding 60 Minutes Executive Producer, Gerald Stone.
Reporter: Michael Usher
Producer: Howard Sacre

8:30pm Sunday on Nine.

7 Responses

  1. Shambolic and the producer was made a scapegoat. Tara brown along with senior management should have been given their marching orders . To plan and pay for a kidnapping in a foreign country is the lowest form of journalism. The stench of arrogance lingers out of nine headquarters.

  2. Tonight on 60minutes…. The contestants must prepare a mystery box challenge with a difference, a Risotto without Rice

    All lame jokes aside, it seems a bit harsh, maybe the accountability should’ve been higher up the chain than just the producer, but it’s hard to know, whatever the case it’s usually the person that spins the best narrative to save themselves gets let off and the crap usually gets passed on down the line til someone gets the chop

  3. This is 60 Minutes attempting to pack their troubles up in a box and put a bow on it. This will be the last item in the program and it will prob rate quite well. Nine hopes that everyone will be back the following week as if nothing had ever happened.

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