This documentary reveals the high cost for East Timor’s truth-seeking journalists reporting the four years of upheaval following East Timor’s 2006 crisis.
Filmed over 4 years in Australia's most misunderstood neighbour Timor-Leste, Breaking the News follows local journalists Jose Belo & Rosa Garcia exploring the high cost of being truth-seeking journalists in an emerging nation #TimorLeste#BreakingtheNews https://t.co/HpOQDV0mnT
Before this post-truth epoch Breaking the News explored foreign media being targeted to broadcast political objectives. A P.M. resigns, later ‘rebels’ are eliminated and a President is shot and nearly dies. #TimorLeste#BreakingtheNews streaming https://t.co/HpOQDV0mnT
@neighbour_s@4corners Your ‘investigative’ program “has been used by more malevolent actors to subvert the democratic process.” #4Corners in the mirror? StokingTheFires spread unverified false flags and helped bring down a P.M. #TimorLeste 2006. #BreakingtheNews streaming https://t.co/HpOQDV0mnT
@4corners Your ‘investigative’ program “has been used by more malevolent actors to subvert the democratic process.” #4Corners in the mirror? StokingTheFires spread unverified false flags and helped bring down a P.M. #TimorLeste 2006. #BreakingtheNews streaming https://t.co/HpOQDV0mnT
@neighbour_s The #FakeNews program mentioned the problem of provenance of #FakeNews. To earn public trust in news #4Corners may reflect where #StokingtheFires 2006 broadcast unverified claims which helped bring down an elected P.M. #BreakingtheNews streaming now https://t.co/HpOQDV0mnT
#ABC#4Corners#FakeNews a good reminder Journalists should critique rather than spread misinformation. #StokingTheFires spread unverified politically motivated false flags and helped bring down a P.M. #TimorLeste 2006. #BreakingtheNews streaming now https://t.co/HpOQDV0mnT
Breaking the News now streaming on Beamafilm. https://t.co/HpOQDVhXMt Before this post-truth epoch the film explored the targeting of foreign media to broadcast political objectives. Critical of SBS and ABC the film was never screened on Australian TV. #TimorLeste#EastTimor
Some accounting from those who we trust to hold politicians to account.
Kerry Bryan "We are still stuck in the mire of drab, dishonest arguments that will come at great cost... https://t.co/NIWlCckNuh
The multiple ironies in ABC Four Corners investivating interference against a small media organisation's right to publish.
#takealookinthemirror https://t.co/f1dhXchXVP