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Songshi QuanCurrent Affairs Program bombshell transcript – Read the truth!
September 11th 2008 03:49
Current Affairs Program bombshell transcript – Read the truth!
A luxury car turns into the street and slows, looking for a park in front of a range of upmarket homes. The driver spots a space and carefully negotiates the car park. The reporter snaps to full alertness on sighting her quarry and with cameraman Joe in toe, they exit the unmarked van and descend upon the unsuspecting driver.
“Madeline Noseybody for The One Channel, we’d like to have a word with you sir about the millions of dollars in retirement savings you have swindled and conned from hundreds of hard working Mum and Dad investors, just like the ones watching at home right now.”
“Whoa, what the heck is going on,” the man is clearly surprised and now also partially blinded by the bright lights of the news camera shinning into his eyes from 2 feet away. Joe the cameraman catches the look of surprise in a clear focus close up, knowing it will work well with the edited footage to be shown to the public, overlaying a statement of guilt from the man to make the two appear to have occured at the same time.
“Don’t play coy with us sir,” Madeline chastised him sternly, “We know all about your activities. Is that how you bought this car and your luxury house?” She continued to harass him with question upon question as she walked down the street at his side, giving him no time to respond.
“What…? Hang on…? Who are you people…?” “Why do I have to justify what I earn and how I spend it to the media anyway?”
“You’re lack of concern for your victims makes me sick sir,” She interpreted his confusion for a more accusatory indifference on behalf of her public; clearly too stupid to interpret for themselves.
“I have dozens of signed affidavits from your victims sir, dozens of them! One sad story of savings gutted after another, all perpetrated by you!” She levelled an accusing finger at him as they continued walking; being careful to make sure the camera recorded her stabbing finger gesture.
“Well, this is all very odd, but show me the affidavits,” The fellow’s curiosity finally got the better of him and unwittingly played him right into her hands.
“I’m sure you’d like to get your hands on these,” she sneered contemptuously, “No doubt wanting to rip them up and destroy the evidence. I can’t believe you would try such a thing,” she easily twisted supposition into another accusation of wrong doing irrespective of whether it was true or not as she waved the documents in front of his face, preventing him from even focusing on them, let alone reading them.
“Look, you must have the wrong man,” the fellow threw his hands up in bafflement as he walked.
“The wrong man?” she queried in a sceptical voice, giving Joe the cameraman a pre-arranged signal. Joe stepped from the side he was filming, directly into the path of the fellow and stopped in his tracks, causing a collision between the two of them.
“Don’t touch the camera sir, that’s assault you know!” she squealed hysterically, “Don’t you assault me for revealing your thievery to the public.”
“I didn’t touch you,” he responded in confusion, “Your cameraman just stepped right in front of me, how could I avoid him?”
“That’s not what I saw and not what the public will see when we show them a heavily edited version of your brutal and uncalled for assault.”
“Oh, this has gone on long enough,” And the fellow turned up a short path to the front door of his house. Stepping inside, the door was blocked open by the cameraman sticking his long news camera into the home while he followed the fellow.
“Hey, don’t use the door as a weapon on us,” Madeline’s voice cracked with feigned fear.
“I’m just trying to close the door to my home,” The fellow explained, “Why is your cameraman blocking it open with his camera?”
“You invited us in sir, don’t go making this into a kidnapping as well,” she openly lied, trying to get him to use a word that they could later splice together with other sentences of his to make it look like he invited them in.
“I never invited you inside, how absurd!”
“No more games sir, we have been watching you for weeks now. Tonight, everyone watching national television will see that Daniel Jones is a liar, thief and bully who attacks innocent reporters just doing their job,” she accused with a perfectly weighted edge to her voice, hinting at the onset of tears.
“Daniel Jones?” The fellow queried with a frown as Madeline dabbed at her now moist eyes. “Daniel lives next door, I’m Joshua Brown…”
Silence hung between them for a long moment before a defiant reporter re-asserted herself.
“Tell me Mr Brown,” she uttered his name with a clear tone of scepticism as she peered down the camera to the waiting audience of millions of gullible viewers, “How long have you been conspiring with Daniel Jones to swindle millions of dollars in retirement savings from all these Mum’s and Dad’s?”
“Oh, you’re pathetic, get out of my house now!” Joshua had lost his patience now, along with Joe the cameraman who was also starting to squirm a little uncomfortably at the mistaken identity.
“I hope you watch the show tonight Mr Jones! And we’ll be sure to give a copy of our heavily edited video tape to the Police so they can use our evidence to prosecute you,” Madeline yelled into the house from the front veranda, the front door now closed and securely locked before her.
Well, you read it here folks! Another expose of laser sharp journalism by the media organizations dedicated to bringing you a sensational story irrespective of truth, the presumption of innocence or due process. Be sure to watch it all tonight on your favourite channel so you can talk about the implications for every day people like yourselves standing around the water cooler tomorrow.
Woof!
Business Beagle
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Comment by Jeff K
Good post, Beagle, and have you read the local rag lately? It's worse than the TV, if that's possible!
Comment by Business Beagle
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Robert Keanalley
What I'd like to know is why the community in general is so apathetic to it. The media regularly show us images of one thing and either a sound recording voice over of something else or their own commentary of something else, effectively linking the two disparate elements into one.
To me, this is fraud. And we allow it to occur without a squeak of protest.
Latest example? On TV last night was the story of another horrible car accident in which two people lost their lives. It was within 5km approximately to an even more tragic accident in which 4 people died last week. Now, it was not the exact same stretch of road, but a nearby road. The TV showed us the footage from last week and the one from this week side by side, claiming that the same stretch of road has claimed another victim. Only adding as a footnote that it was a different road, 5km away but 'close enough' for them to link them together to make a bigger false picture of 2 accidents in 1 week claiming 6 lives 'on the same stretch of road'... Obviously the term 'stretch' is clearly open to interpretation and a bit of stretching of its own.
Woof.
Comment by Songshi Quan
Oh wait...
Obama!...heh, I always get those two mixed up, hey, no harm, no foul?