Melbourne:
A sting operation last week that created a huge controversy, when an Australian television network showed footage of one of their journalists walking unchecked with an oversized suitcase through security barricades at what he said was the Jawaharlal Nehru stadium in New Delhi, claiming that it could be fitted with a detonator that could cause 200 explosions.
The Channel 7 story was covered the world over. We did too. (
Read: Australia TV crew brings detonation kit to venue)And now the latest on that.
Australian broadcaster ABC has questioned key claims in that expose. On its programme Mediawatch, ABC describes the sting in fact as "sleight of hand," "dishonest" and the reporter as "acting". The programme also has comment from Channel 7 standing by the story.
Here is the Mediawatch episode posted on YouTube.
You can also watch this on the ABC website
here.
And here is the complete
Mediawatch episode transcript.