Despite the ABC frantically removing every trace of Andy Muirhead (Andy who?), 60-thousand pictures of him in an ABC-setting have slipped through the net!
One of our kids noticed him – with Tim Cox and erstwhile pals – in the Festival of Voices supplement in Saturday’s Mercury. Page 9:
Meanwhile, Amanda Meade, Media, The Australian:
Privacy dispute on Muirhead
ABC News has defended Hobart newsroom’s decision to film the home of Andy Muirhead, charged with viewing child pornography.
Colleagues of Muirhead from TV show The Collectors, and the local Hobart radio station where he was breakfast host, were unhappy when pictures of the 34-year-old’s house appeared on national news last week. But director of news Kate Torney told Diary the ABC reported the facts as they appeared on the charge sheet lodged in court. “It is normal practice for the location of an alleged offence to be used in our TV stories for illustrative purposes,” Torney said. “The images used did not identify the location of the house. The Hobart news team rightly treated this story no differently to any other coverage of a similar nature.” The ABC’s decision to remove any reference to Muirhead from its website has also been criticised internally as undermining his right to presumption of innocence.
