Misleading Stories Just To Make TV

[jtaylor]

How did it go Dave? I too was also trashed in an ACA story some years ago. Just one person's opinion, no-one elses, against me and ACA never bothered to contact me for my side of the dispute. I went to the ACMA (back then they were known as the ABA) in writing and they merely paper slapped Channel 9 on the wrist. They didn't even fine them or anything. They just sent them a letter that they had breached one code in the commercial tv code of practice, no other action. No-one was stood down and no apologies or corrections were ever given by the network. Pathetic really. I won't be shedding any tears when ACA is finally cancelled.

[davetheknave]

Thanks people, and that Youtube idea i really like that it's fab. But hey it can all wait till after my easter holiday. As for it making things worse if i told my side it may make it worse for my ex's mum but that is to bad (And from an editing standpoint at least it would be edited in my favour as it was there's not that it would need to be to show the real story here), she is the one who has gone to such ridiculous extremes and low level all the while abusing her own daughters best wishes and turning people on her rather than me which to be honest i just cannot understand. I don't have it in for my Ex at all, never did, just wish someone would do something about her mum so she could get a life of her own, get the help she craves and then i am certain she'd make it okay. But whilst her mother remains like this unchallenged that will never happen and for someone that is 20 this year it's just so wrong and from a friends stand point so hard to witness. And if anyone wants to know why her mum has it in for me so bad. Simple. I don't tolerate crap like that :-) from nobody let alone her and her attempts to silence, change or clone me are futile. I am who i am and i am not changing that for nobody :-). I have contacted the ACMA or AMCA or what ever it is called about this but no reply yet. It is to make a complaint and the rest. Should that be a pretty straight forward thing to deal with?

Dave

[mwato79]

Maybe put something on YouTube?

[Jaime_]

Completely understandable, unfortunately theyre all the same. Doesnt matter which current affairs or similar program you chose they all edit them.
Good luck though, hope it doesnt make things worse when you find someone to take the story.

[davetheknave]

Ok now i have the username thing sorted out, i see the point you are making Jaime_ but the point i was making didn't mean i would be going on Today Tonight, blow them. I would have like to go on the rival program merely to make a point of i was hung out to dry by a fairytale story that the tellers probably handsomely profited from. For example the streaker did pretty well didn't he. And shouldn't that be a crime, profiting from a crime or from telling public lies or things that lead to public slander & defamation etc which are offenses as well. I don't trust the media either because i did not consent to be on their program nor interview, i was ambushed, chased and hounded and couldn't even move my car from the McDonalds car park it took place in. So what right do they legally have to do this? If i was to go and do this to someone no doubt especially those who did it to me i'd wind up in hot water no doubt. I am still hearing crap about this and well am going on holiday over easter, but when i get back i want to deal with it and end it totally, forgive and forget don't work with the person who began this matter, and it isn't my ex who is the most at fault. It is her Mum, she will just not leave me and this matter and her near 20 year old daughter and her life when it comes to making decisions alone. It is an absolute pain in the butt, i heard nothing from them all for about a month prior to this. What next? Cops do jack, because had they done something long ago i wouldn't still be putting up with this crap. It's complex to explain i really dunno how to explain it on here in less than 600 words and without i dunno breaking rules or something. I just don't know exactly what i want to do about it yet, but leaving it proves to not be a working option.

[Jaime_]

Of course you have the right to, I am just stating that there aren't any shows around that will just let you do that without editing it and twisting what you've said. They won't play exactly what you've said, they may change the interview questions. It could turn out worse than it is. No one I know has ever been interviewed by them and then had the same interview played on tv. They change the questions and chop around the answers. Its a reason I don't trust anything written or otherwise where the media has been involved.

[Temp-on4455hrd]

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Thanks guys, by the way my name ain't temp lol, i dunno what has happened there as i can't sign in, and i contacted admin but no answer from them as of yet, they can delete my other account for me if possible and i will stick to this one, it just seems everything internet based for me is playing up at the moment. Anyway i just wanted to say to Jamie, mate you touched on the point i am trying to stress the most, i would like the right to tell my side on TV and then the rest would take care of itself. Everyone deserves a right to a fair go, and what ever happened to innocent until PROVEN guilty? People's lives & reputations get tarnished by those truly worthy of such a embarrassment, and the circumstances of how i was set up and when was very low, and all the things done to me over the past 20 months even lower still. There are so many controversial issues in what i have to tell. And one of them in particular let me mention the restraining order and how these are just issued with with be fake evidence these days is just wrong, and police have even admitted to me they are often arresting women who are getting them yet using them against the man or breeching them, leading to the man being able to get it removed. This happened to me, i stayed away from my ex, she kept coming to me for help with her illness and her want to get out of home, and i wasn't going to tell her where to go cause that was a genuine concern shared by myself & my friends. It is a complicated matter, but the bottom line is i have been shafted time after time and this is the last straw, i will not stand for being abused like this anymore because honestly where is it going to end.

Fed up & Incredibly Frustrated.

[Grommit]

You have my sympathy Temp. As others have said, unless you want to buy a lot more stress, you are probably better off just forgetting it. Consolation being that anyone who truly believes the stories on TT or ACA are pretty thick, really. Most people do watch it for its comedic value and certainly don't take the "facts" presented seriously. G.

[Jaime_]

The trick is finding somnewhere to "go on TV and tell the real tale" is finding a show that isnt going to edit the content to make a better story out of it. None of those shows on TV at the moment are going to air something that has someone just going on TV to tell their side of a story that was aired on another show. They are going to edit it and change it until they think its controversial enough.
Unelss you can create your own show perhaps even on your own channel you will have better luck than with any of the current shows.

[davetheknave]

Thanks fellow complainers :p, the thing is i would like to have my chance and the help of my friends to tell what really happened, because then the pressure would go back on this family, and especially so due to the fact they lied so blatantly on TV. And the sucky part about legal matters being an option, why should i have to go through all this just because of the stupidity of others, i have bigger fish to fry, my health being one of them but i am forever having to defend myself over this TV escapade so if i could go on TV and tell the real tale the rest would take care of itself. Any suggestions on that front? I really want to end this crap, my ex's Mum is clearly mental, because there is no such thing as sit down like an adult & discuss and work things out with her, instead she likes to go from one extreme to the other and this takes the cake, no wonder her daughter (My Ex) is such a mentally messed up young woman as well.

David

[TheLoanMan]

David I feel for you.

The options as I see it are legal action agains them, which will be costs.

Or just ignor them. Most thinking people realise that the soap operas called current affairs are all Bull***t, and are seen more as light entertainment than fact. If you ignor it, it will blow over.

I am a firm believer that if you tell the truth all the time, truth will eventually show through and your friends and business collegues will know what is true.

Best of luck and dont let the bastards get you down.

[Jaime_]

I dont believe there is alot you can do. None of the stories on Today Tonight or A Current Affair are what really happened. I know several people over the year that have had their stories on one of these programs and in every single case they change the questions and put the original answers with it when they edit. They interviewed my grandparents and changed all the original question to make them look bad. I wouldnt believe a word those programs say and I wouldnt worry about what theyve said. 9 out of 10 people who watch it watch it for its comedy aspect because most people know its not true.
Its like the time they wasted a segment on people being fined at a shopping centre bus stop which says no stopping at the bus stop and people were doing it and getting fined yet the segment was on how the inspectors were wrong for fining people doing the wrong thing! Unvbelievable.

[davetheknave]

Hi, i got hung out to dry on Today Tonight yesterday and had a far fetched, highly inaccurate untrue story told about me and some of my friends and i want to know what i can do about it. I have tried contacting channel 9 about the matter but no reply as of yet, as for Channel 7 they don't deserve a response if they cannot tell a whole story, rather than just make one people want to watch and they don't care who gets affected by there lies!
Can anyone help me on this, i feel the real whole version needs to be told based on a group of people telling hideous compulsive lies and getting it plastered on TV for it. How is that OK,because i wasn't brought up like that ad i won't suffer being the one to carry others rot.

David