Amber Harrison turns to Nine and News Corp after Four Corners snub
After being omitted from Four Corners’ evisceration of Seven’s workplace culture, despite featuring in the trailer, Amber Harrison has turned to both News Corp and Nine papers in order to be heard.
Harrison’s affair with former Seven CEO Tim Worner was first made public after she was fired from Seven, ostensibly for credit card misuse.
“Silence for life,” she said in the trailer of the fallout, which saw her sign a $400,000 non-disclosure agreement with the network.
ABC quietly removed the trailer for the Four Corners episode, after leading law firm Herbert Smith Freehills issued a legal letter to the ABC, “reminding it to be extremely careful before airing the program, given at least one of the interview subjects featured in the promo is already subject to strict gag orders”.
ABC’s Four Corners synopsis itself reads in part: ”Many staff have made legal claims against the network and many past staff have been gagged with non-disclosure agreements.”
When the episode aired on Monday night, Harrison was absent. When Mumbrella asked Four Corners reporter Louise Milligan about this on Tuesday morning, she simply replied: “I can’t talk about Amber Harrison.”
Harrison was miffed by being silenced once again, speaking to both The Sydney Morning Herald, a Nine paper, and News Corp’s The Australian.
“It’s curious that after being featured in the promo, my interview was pulled without explanation,” Harrison told the SMH.
“This omission left a significant story untold, especially considering the hype surrounding the show and the high calibre of journalism Louise Milligan is known for.
“The fact that my interview, which could have underscored the very point of Don’t Speak, was excluded is intriguing, especially when the decision not to include it wasn’t explained on the program.
“There’s a much bigger narrative here that wasn’t shared.”
Harrison said she conducted a three-hour interview, telling The Australian “I knew my legal [boundaries] and I stayed within those.”
She said: “If I was cut because Seven made legal threats to the ABC after I appeared in the promo, I feel that I was used as ‘clickbait’.
“I don’t think they had anyone else in the Four Corners program who would have generated publicity like me.
“I would have expected to have been included. It’s weird that a Four Corners episode called Don’t Speak – which is obviously what I can’t do – didn’t include any reference to me after using me in the promo.
“I had no idea I was going to be cut and I wasn’t told by Louise that I was to be dropped.”
She told The Australian: “I think anyone who speaks out about Channel 7 is very brave.
“But I think the program would’ve held a bit more weight if they included someone like me who was really taken down by Seven.”
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Nathan Jolly is the Features Editor at Mumbrella. He joined the team in July, 2023.
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I watched the current affair program.about chanel 7.and was appalled by the language that was used it could of easly been blanked out.it was discussing
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Channel 7 are a disgrace. End of! I have evidence and can’t be silenced.
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