Imagine your trauma leads the news. Your private life is then public property. Your anonymity is lost. That’s what it’s like to become an accidental celebrity. Now, the spotlight is turned around. Each weekly episode offers rare media insights from an ordinary Australian who faced an extraordinary event. They expose the tricks of a competitive trade – the relentless pursuits, the manipulation and misrepresentation, the betrayals of truth and trust – with journalist Fiona Reynolds. Learn too why they participated in media coverage. This is the inside story on a shrewd industry that plucks unknowns from obscurity to feed our fascination with adversity and the strength of the human spirit.
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Imagine your trauma leads the news. Your private life is then public property. Your anonymity is lost. That’s what it’s like to become an accidental celebrity. Now, the spotlight is turned around. Each weekly episode offers rare media insights from an ordinary Australian who faced an extraordinary event. They expose the tricks of a competitive trade – the relentless pursuits, the manipulation and misrepresentation, the betrayals of truth and trust – with journalist Fiona Reynolds. Learn too why they participated in media coverage. This is the inside story on a shrewd industry that plucks unknowns from obscurity to feed our fascination with adversity and the strength of the human spirit.
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Todd Russell was stripped of his anonymity before he’d even emerged after 14 days trapped underground by the 2006 Beaconsfield mine rockfall. Elation was quickly replaced by frustration as the media pursuit and public attention became overwhelming.
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SFX
Explosion.wav by Kigofix - Freesound.org
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Answer them phones by jobro - Freesound.org
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Soccer kick 01 by volivieri - Freesound.org
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Itzo Dobreff » Applause_encore.aif - Freesound.org
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MUSIC
Theme: Epic Adventure by BlueBirdSound
A Darker Heart by Audionautix.com
Ignotus by Agnese Valmaggia
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Final Step by Rafael Krux
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Breaking News 3 by Sascha Ende
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Desert Nomads by Rafael Krux
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Rising Tide (faster) by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/5028-rising-tide-faster-
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Breaking News 4 by Sascha Ende
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321 - Unitopia
Beginning Of Conflict by Rafael Krux
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The Way Out by Kevin MacLeod
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Moments Of Life by Rafael Krux
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Traveler's Notebook by Rafael Krux
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Media credits:
Content supplied and/or licensed for use courtesy of Nine Entertainment Co (incl. The Footage Company Australia / Nine Network Australia), Australian Broadcasting Corporation Library Sales and News Corp Australia.
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