Nine news boss flies to Beirut as 60 Minutes’ crew prepares to face Lebanese judge
Brown: detained in Lebanon
Nine’s news and current affairs boss, Darren Wick, has flown to Beirut as a 60 Minutes’ crew prepares to face a judge over allegations it paid a child recovery agency to attempt to retrieve the children of Brisbane mother Sally Faulkner.
In recent days, the Nine Network has played down allegations it paid $120,000 to the agency, whose operators have been detained along with 60 Minutes’ Tara Brown, a camera man, a sound man and a producer, who were filming an operation in an international custody case in the Lebanese capital. Sally Faulkner, the mother of the children, was also detained.
“They are journalists covering a story. That is all,” said a Nine spokeswoman. “We are working with the Department of Foreign Affairs, they have local legal representation and we are doing everything possible to ensure their release and that we get them home as soon as possible.”
Not surprised this has happened – they blunder into peoples lives just to get a news story
Let’s hope some lessons will be learned from this fiasco – pity those two little children caught up in this through no fault of their own
Jean
Recently a dangerous situation confronted a 60 Minutes crew in Sweden, and now something even more serious is happening in Lebanon. Should the show’s producers now be doing a re-evaluation of overseas assignments?