wow. that’s a big call
While I’m sure Denham is a decent guy, he often comes across on screen as being smug
I love Denham’s reporting. I’ve seen his work on SN before it got axed and he suits longer investigations. That one on Jeffrey Brooks in 2016-17 was excellent and has done good stuff with SPOTLIGHT already.
Seven should have the guts to broadcast this Scientology investigation that Bryan Seymour made for Spotlight. It hasn’t seen the light of day, apparently due to legal threats Seven received from the Church of Scientology. It sounds more interesting than the trash Seven has been showing as Spotlight specials.
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I understand the sentiments behind not wanting last night’s episode shown to avoid abetting terrorism and adding notoriety etc but wonder how far can an argument can be taken considering the large number of similar programs that have been shown over the years.
How many Ivan Milat specials have there been for example? Plus 911 has been the subject of multiple documentaries and up to seven movies have been made.
Here’s a list of season one titles from Crime Investigations Australia just season 1) (the Steve Liebmann version- that Seven has remade). All potentially adding to the notoriety of the perpetrators.
No More Grannies – The Granny Killer
Kid for Ransom/Tears for Daniel
Death in a Heartbeat/The Body in the Bag
Ivan Milat: The Backpacker Murders
Contract to Kill/The Mornington Monster
The Moorhouse Horrors/The Call Girl Killing
The Killer Punch/The Will of Death
The Anita Cobby Murder
Snowtown: Bodies in the Barrels
The Kimberley Killer
The Wanda Beach Murders/The Beaumont Children Mystery
The Greenough Family Massacre
The Disappearance of Donald Mackay
The Body in the Sports Bag
The Assassination of John Newman
The Butchered Boys
The standard should be simple; If the crime was motivated by notoriety then the coverage should be treated with sensitivity. Its ok to tell the victims story, or report newsworthy news, but should be done without focusing on or glorifying the perpetrator.
Most of those crimes you’ve listed had other motives or were mental health issues.
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…was better.
If Seven has an interview with an alien then they’ll have a big story, otherwise it’s a nothingburger.
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7NEWS Spotlight: The Phenomenon
Sunday 30 May
It is now beyond doubt that strange, anomalous objects filling our skies and caught on camera are the real deal.
Even the Pentagon admits it’s true.
These seemingly intelligently controlled craft are operating above the clouds, in our oceans and in our orbit – travelling at hypersonic speeds far beyond any known human technology and completing manoeuvres unknown to science.
The subject of conspiracy and derision for years, UFOs are now the hottest topic in Washington and the world.
As recently as Monday, they were front page news in The Washington Post .
Five-time Walkley Award-winning investigative journalist Ross Coulthart – who has been investigating the phenomena for the past two years – has led the 7NEWS Spotlight team across the US, amassing never-before-seen compelling evidence and speaking to the key players behind an event that will change the course of history.
Featuring interviews with the highest echelons of military defence and intelligence officials, leading researchers, scientists and witnesses in America and Australia, this mind-blowing documentary years in the making seeks to answer the most fundamental question there is: are we alone?
The US director of national intelligence is expected to hand down an unclassified report next month that will change our understanding of life itself. On Spotlight, we reveal what is in that report.
7NEWS Spotlight: The Phenomenon unearths startling new evidence of Australian Government cover-ups and extraordinary vision of unidentified aerial phenomena in Western Australia, Victoria and Queensland – all credible and important additions to the worldwide data being accumulated by the US.
For Coulthart, the project has become the most fascinating and challenging of his career. “I went into this investigation a sceptic, thinking there must be some mundane explanation for these anomalous mystery craft people are seeing in the skies,” he said.
“It’s a taboo subject for media, but one that has always fascinated me. The more I dug, the more I was shocked. The extraordinary sensor systems that the military now has to track these objects makes it impossible to dismiss the evidence. They’re real.”
https://twitter.com/7NewsSpotlight/status/1397717137993596929?s=20
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Ross is releasing a book based on this documentary which he has been researching the past few years.
So far l haven’t watched one episode of Spotlight this year and won’t be watching this week either,for me the investigations chosen has been odd and unappealing.
So Spotlight is now a weekly show not just the odd special here and there??
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It does appear to be a weekly show of late.
i prefer it if it was more of a special here and there (or at least a two-parter show in consecutive weeks at the most).
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It’s doing quite well for Seven. I would be interested to know how long ago all of these were filmed.
It’s doing extremely well comparing to Sunday Night in its twilight years. They need to focus on the hard news aspect of it instead of interviewing controversial figures ‘breaking their silence’.
Would’ve been nice if they had Mel Doyle anchor this show but guess they’re still too cash-strapped.
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It’s also cheaper to produce one story per Sunday rather than 3 or 4 as 60 minutes does. But again it’s going to depend on the interest in the story they have.
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Promo
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