Sunday Age reprimanded for refusing to correct story of suspect’s strip search
The Sunday Age has been censured by the Australian Press Council over its publication of an author’s account of being strip searched by police.
The first person article by author Barry Dickins, a regular contributor to the newspaper, was headlined “Strip-searched in Carlton on a sunny afternoon”.
Dickins claimed in the October 2015 article that he had been stopped by police on suspicion of shoplifting a T-shirt and ordered to drop his pants in public view, to prove he was not hiding anything.
Just shows how unreliable many of the ‘first person unverified’ accounts are in the media, and how desperate people can be to have a story published.