Caution: vox pops ahead
A man is demanding an apology from A Current Affair after claiming a vox pop he gave a year ago depicts him as a dole bludging Gen Y.
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A young man who was appeared in a ‘vox pop’ interview on A Current Affair last night is asking for an apology, after claiming it depicted him unfairly in a story about Gen Y and unemployment.
The story by Nick Etchells looked at a Tyrepower manager who was having trouble filling manual jobs. Gen Y was said to be more hungry for ‘smart’ jobs that didn’t involve manual labour and paid well.
One of the vox pops was a young man sitting on a lawn inercut with shots of young people dozing in a library or on a bench.
Nick Etchells: Who do you live with?
Man: Parents.
Nick Etchells: Who did your last load of laundry?
Man: My mum.
Nick Etchells: Your mum, so you mooch off your folks?
Man: Yep.
Nick Etchells: What sort of job do you want?
Man: I want to work in a firm, and then run a firm.
Nick Etchells: And then run a firm. And how much would you like to get paid for your job? Man: Between fifty and a hundred.
Nick Etchells: Between fifty and a hundred, your first job?
(Laughing in background)
Today the man, Tim Eastaugh, is demanding an apology from the program, saying he is a fulltime student with two part-time jobs
He told 3AW the footage was filmed last year when he was approached on a lawn outside RMIT while having his lunch and asked questions about Gen Y lifestyle.
“What misconceptions go on about Generation Y?” he said he was asked.
He didn’t even know he was appearing in the story last night until family members phoned to tell him.
“My grandmother actually called me and said ‘Guess what your mum does your laundry and you’re a dole bludging no-hoper,'” he said.
Dole bludgers aren’t one of ACA‘s strong points, with Ray Martin’s 1996 story with the Paxton family way back in 1996 its lowest point.
At least last night’s story had better balance by including Boost Juice boost Janine Allis boss who defended Gen Y as hard workers.
ACA may not have stated that Eastaugh was a dole-bludger but the overall effect was the same because it used loosely-related footage to further its story on Gen Y and didn’t explain he was a fulltime student with 2 jobs.
It surely highlights the power of selective editing and the need to be very careful about giving a vox pop to camera crews.
Eastaugh is now asking for an apology from ACA host Tracy Grimshaw.
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15 Responses
Come Tracey
Get off that show, it’s just full of headaches these days
Answer is simple – Digital 1 or 5 depending on where you live.
Even if you have to become Negusised… which sounds like a crude circumcision with a weird mustache growing where it shouldn’t…. but I digress….
Watch 6.30 instead! Or SBS World News.
Demanding an apology isn’t going to get this guy anywhere. The only way to get the people at Today Tonight or A Current Affair to pay attention to your grievance is to threaten to take legal action. (Granted, ACA probably didn’t do or say anything that was legally actionable, but they’ll certainly ignore anything less than a meaningful threat.)
Using footage from only a year ago would seem pretty good by ACA standards.
Easy way to stop them, watch something else!
I barely watch the news on FTA and at 6 GEM has Friends in HD running now in double eps, much better that ACA or TT.
I guess i was an idiot to think there was such thing as defamatory laws that are there to protect you from something like that
Not defamatory just poorly edited.
Boost Juice workers hard workers? Baahhahhahah
You’re an idiot if you let yourself be interviewed by any current affairs program, no pity here.
If you see them, just keep walking.
Can someone please stop them!!! What a waste of airtime.
ACA scum are at it again.
Typical ACA. Should we really expect anything different?
I did an interview with them some years ago, when i was almost homeless due to the lack of rental propertys available…they tried to get me to cry on camera and told me to say certain things, which i didnt, they also wanted me to take a backpack with a hidden camera inside into house inspections. They claimed they were going to help me find a rental before my lease was up. The night my story was to air, they had shock promos on about horror tenants and how they cannot find rentals…luckily they didnt air anything they shot with me, but i know now it was destined for it had i been convincing enough…it was extremely unfair because i am a professional worker and have a perfect rental record, but thats not what they were obviously gonig to portray..with “selective editing”
Never, ever give a quote to a news crew on the street no matter how tempted you might be. The chances of being taken out of context are high.