60 Minutes legal stoush heats up amid document leaks to the media
The legal stoush between former 60 Minutes producer Stephen Rice and his former employer the Nine Network has heated up with a series of leaked documents surfacing across the media today.
Reporter Tara Brown and to her left Stephen Rice. Source: Nine News.
The Daily Telegraph this morning revealed internal emails which showed the two most senior staff at 60 Minutes, Kirsty Thomson and Tom Malone, and a Nine Network lawyer knew the details of the plan to conduct a “child recovery” operation in order to help Brisbane mother Sally Faulkner retrieve her two children from Lebanon.
An email from Thomson to Malone and Rice on January 18 describes how the story got picked up and that it was originally going to be done by sister program Inside Story.
It seems extraordinary to me that nowhere in this whole process was it discussed that they would be breaking the laws of Lebanon. The criticism seems to be that they weren’t very good lat it.
Interesting report of what the so called review thought were rice’s faults. In effect, he failed to conduct a crime effectively. So he is fired.
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Oh dear, the Guardian story has been taken down already… Either a great piece of journalism or a false story?