Seven News on the frontline

Sounds just like a scene out of Frontline…

Seven has denied hiring actors to play the role of newsroom producers for a network promo after a media report that accused it of blending fact with fiction, in the race for ratings.

News Corp rather hilariously reported “a thoroughly good looking” male and female were spotted at Seven’s Martin Place studios and a camera crew started buzzing about the pair who had been given instructions to: “check some paperwork”, “check some details on the computer screen”, “walk upstairs and downstairs,” “answer a phone call while browsing documents” and “pretend to type.”

Seven spokesman Simon Francis denied the shoot was for a News promo.

“(It’s) just one of our ongoing projects,” he said.

You just can’t write this stuff…