Nine photoshops News, leaves out the word “re-enactment”
For the second time in recent weeks Nine News Melbourne has shown images in a news report it has mocked up, without ever clarifying it to viewers.
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For the second time in recent weeks Nine News Melbourne has shown images in a news report it has mocked up, without ever clarifying it to viewers.
Last night Nine News reported on the bizarre case of $100,000 being left in a bin at a toilet -in the foyer of their own building at 717 Bourke Street, no less. A stroke of luck when it comes to getting a good story.
Cleaners stumbled on the money inside the toilets and police have seized security footage which shows the man entering the ground-floor toilets on Wednesday.
But last night as Nine reporter Brendan Roberts described the incident as being caught on closed circuit cameras followed with images of a man inside the toilet emptying cash from bags into a sanitary disposal unit.
So did Nine have images of the man’s face it was concealing? And why are there cameras inside a toilet cubicle anyway?
This morning it was confirmed on radio the images had been mocked-up, but at no point in the story did Nine clarify this to the audience.
In June Nine also reported on a Melbourne house-fire, described by a witness and embellished with several photoshop images, again without the appropriate clarity.
Even current affairs shows title their stories with “re-enactment.” It’s bad enough the news bulletins have taken to creativity, but to not label their imagery shifts them from reporting News to reporting Imagination.
That gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “First on Nine.”
Update: A Nine spokesperson told TV Tonight: “We categorically refute the assertion that Channel Nine attempted to fake footage. There was never any intention to deceive or mislead our viewers. This was nothing more than a production oversight. The word “reconstruction” should have been displayed.”
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17 Responses
Get over it!! Pls.
what a sad and sorry state these news and CAFF programs have become…Ending a week of the lowest point in TV, firstly with the pre-pubic tiaras story and the shameless cheque book journalism, the Jack Pidgeon and the AGT media beat ups, I mean paleeze, who can write and record a whole album, master, duplicate and distribute a CD of songs in just 14 days ? Ill stay with ABC TV where integrity and reliability is the central tenet of the work ethic..
I worked in TV news some 20 years ago and this was standard practice. As a camera assistant i did some Oscar winning performances.
It just keeps getting better at Nine News doesn’t it. If we can photoshop it then its News. Disgusting.
I love deedeedragon’s comments… always soooo predictable. Keep on trollin’
@Ruddeger – that would be Nine ratings and integrity!
The guy was probably stashing the money for Nines new reality show – ‘Guess what’s in the crapper’
Shouldn’t they have stuck the ‘Made in Melbourne’ banner on it?
I want my news to be news. Not a docudrama, not a mouthpiece for the govt or the opposition, not a promo for other shows, and certainly not a prologue for LCD crap like TT and ACA. Unfortunately, it’s the mostly gullible and poorly educated people that watch this crap that are most likely to be deceived.
Another attempt at “entertainment” news and the dumbing down of their audiences.
maybe they should just outsource news production to those Taiwanese animators… it’s about as realistic 🙂
Oh… and cue the Nine fanboys who are no doubt on their way to rush to Nine’s defence…
Whoever watches this tripe deserves the treatment Nine feeds them.
Gotta love this kind of news worthy story and footage. Makes us want to watch Nine because we just trust everything we see on it as a credible news service….Not.
But I do have a question, why did it take him five hours to empty the bags into the bin? I have worked in a bank and it takes a minute or two to put away that amount of money.
Maybe Nine should have been looking at the story from a different angle, “What else was he doing in there for five hours” now thats what I would call a news worthy story for Nine and hey maybe this could be the basis for next years Underbelly series…..Underbelly: Toilet Cash ‘N’ Trash
I don’t care if they use re-enactments as long as they tell the viewers, it’s common practice to use CGI for car crashes and such but that is clearly visible as CGi.
I was about to say: “but in this digital age, viewers should know what’s real and what’s not”… Then I remembered these are viewers of Channel Nine!
Who in their wildest dreams believed this was real. Come on people.
Those Photoshopped fire photos were awesome. But it doesn’t stop with these two gems. Nine had a story on the weekend about stranger danger and did a first-person camera piece, pretending to be running away from someone…or something…it was blurry and hard to tell exactly was going on.
The best ever one of these though belongs to Ch.10, who years ago ran a story about the Penrith panther and re-enacted an alleged attack. The acting was hilarious.