Oh I agree 100%. But the damage to Seven’s reputation does not factor into landing on a dollar figure to compensate the wrongly identified victim.
Six figures, yes. But there are people (mostly on more unhinged forums than this one) claiming he would have received millions, which is utterly fanciful.
Sure, but Seven didn’t have to take those unfounded social media allegations and run with them.
Am I correct that he was named at 6.05am?
There is no doubt that social media should do more to stop the spread of misinformation, but that doesn’t absolve Seven who took unverified and unfounded information they’d sourced from a questionable source and chose to amplify it across a whole new medium.
It’s not unreasonable to expect what is sold to us as a “trusted” source of news to actually present trustworthy news.
He also may not have been interested in wanting a large payout, but rather just wanted an apology.
In any case, Seven settling doesn’t change anything - they still made a grave error and it shouldn’t pass without consequence. This isn’t Seven’s first rodeo when it comes to incorrectly identifying perpetrators of serious crime either, surely there comes a point where apologies and payouts just don’t cut the mustard.
One of Howard’s very first acts as CEO was signing a payout for Cohen last week, negotiated by Rebekah Giles (again, as predicted). The terms are strictly confidential, but it’s said to be “well in excess” of six figures.
The Snitch column in yesterday’s Sunday Telegraph suggested 200-250k is the number about town
The Australian has $300k!
It resulted in a costly legal settlement between Mr Cohen and Channel 7, which is reportedly in the vicinity of $300,000.
Well considering legal fees it prob was $50k for the weeks work 
and the rest to Ben.
From tonight’s Media Watch.
I think the report pretty well summed up what the forum has been saying about ABC’s News channel. So often it is showing repeat programming when breaking news is happening. The summary of the Bondi coverage was accurate; it might have mentioned that Sky used Nine’s interviews to supplement their coverage.
ABC should have ways of responding. A code red system or something.
Like they’re great with radio coverage of natural disasters.
How can they respond so poorly in the big city where they’re literally based?
Ten News doesn’t even get a mention. Shows how irrelevant they are these days.
why is it crazy that two channels are onsite at the same time? Even if Ten didn’t have live/rolling coverage they still would have been filing reports for the 5.00 news, etc.
Difference being, Nine were on-air with that news and 10 chose to wait until their 5pm bulletin started some 30 minutes later because of the same issue ABC had with lack of resources to make that happen.
Pretty ordinary to not rate a mention, though they did not really provide any special coverage - just whatever was shown in the 5pm bulletin.
Would not be surprising to anyone that they’re not seen as news leaders.
This is even trending online tonight, a “huge response”
https://twitter.com/TheRealPBarry/status/1787453316873765298?t=4zoccyQzICxLv8iFbUDavw&s=19
Surprised there was no mention about the ABC’s lack of radio coverage?
Either way, whoever is running the NC needs to ensure that there is always a crew ready to go at a moments notice, at least between 6am and 12am.
But management instead spends money on shifting some ABC services 20 minutes down the road
to Paramatta.
“Huge feedback”
The 5pm bulletin was extended by 30 minutes that night.
That’s right, it did too.
Seemingly went unnoticed that they stayed on air longer to cover what was still an unfolding situation.
