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When is the News not really the News?
Yesterday Nine News reported that an accident in the Eastlink Tunnel in Ringwood caused traffic chaos. Just one problem....
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Yesterday’s Nine News at Five reported that an accident in the Eastlink Tunnel in Ringwood, east of Melbourne, caused traffic chaos.
“A utility carrying toxic materials crashed into a car and burst into flames,” said Peter Overton.
“Motorists jumped from their cars as smoke filled the air activating emergency sprinklers.”
Just one problem.
It was a mock exercise to train emergency workers. The tunnel had been closed by authorities for half a day. Camera crews were on hand to capture the scene.
At least Nine News Melbourne and Seven News Melbourne gave out the correct info at 6pm.
NINE NEWS AT FIVE
NINE NEWS MELBOURNE
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29 Responses
IMO Seven and Nine headquarters should move to Melbourne. More people watch FTA in Melbourne than Sydney so why have headquarters in Sydney?
Why Nine would put such fake news and cause unnecessary panic. It’s not ‘See it first with Nine’ if they air fake news! What’s next?
“When is the News not really the News?”
When it’s on Channel Nine.
See it first on Nine … ah, first but not correct though.
Ashton, if you’d been watching, Nine News Melbourne lead the bulletin with a report on Libya from Europe correspondent Peter Stefanovic .
Oh don’t worry about the war in Libya, just worry about a fake accident :/
Pathetic Channel 9
Home Of Comedy.
Say’s it all really.
Ah Michael and your beloved GTV News. I agree. Far more important stories to report (correctly). “A thrashing”? Um,
1 Seven News – Sun Seven 364,000(Mel)
2 Nine News Sunday Nine 357,000(Mel)
Get over it!! More important thing happening in the world. 9 News in Melb has been giving 10 and 7 a thrashing.
the headline reflects the article :/
@Ann it went tabloid years and years ago.
so nine actually though it was real, all i can say that’s pathetic!
“Could the Sydney bureau not have called their Melbourne colleagues to confirm details?”
I’m assuming the “News at Five” was done from Sydney, although not aired in Sydney or NSW.
But why would Sydney call Melbourne? If this was a Melbourne item surely it would have been sent to Sydney by Nine Melbourne (?). Correction or not, it was a gaffe, perhaps corrected when the switchboard lit up.
Laughable
Its all gone tabloid to drive ratings
Doesn’t even air in Sydney due to rugby league.
The scary thing is how the images seemed to confirm the reality of the story. They used to say “seeing is believing” but not anymore. How are we to know that what they present to us as news has actually occurred. We need to be able to trust our sources of information – they should be checking, not us. No wonder conspiracy theories abound when you can’t trust the images that you are presented with…maybe man never really landed on the moon afterall (joke).
Paul / JDJockey: thanks for clarifying.
for the record Peter Overton did correct himself after the next story.
Nine’s credibility, such as it is, should take a hit. I am interested to know the excuse for this. I guess Media Watch will have it.
Duh, the 5pm news is in Sydney & if it didn’t happen in their city, i doubt they are going to check anything and or care.
How embarrassing.
Nine – home of the truth!
That is why I don’t watch nine news.
Peter did correct it a few minutes later saying it was just an exercise which was a relief after the alarming story.
This is an outrageous example of misinformation. What if someone in Sydney had relatives or friends they knew used the tunnel regularly? This could have caused unecessary fear and concern.
Is no research or secondary confirmation sought prior to putting programs to air?
Could the Sydney bureau not have called their Melbourne colleagues to confirm details?
Utterly shameful.