10 April, 2016. 13:15

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT

Following a bungled child snatch in Lebanon, a 60 Minutes crew and the mother at the centre of at trans-national custody battle, are spending their third night behind bars, as Australian diplomats work for their release.

However, what the Lebanese authorities don’t seem to understand is that one member of the Australian investigative news team currently sitting in a Beirut prison cell, is Tara Brown.

The fact that Ms Brown has spent the last 15 years appearing on the iconic Australian sunday night investigative news program appears to be lost of Lebanese authorities, who don’t seem to understand how much of a big deal she is.

Trevor Oltskool, an executive spokesperson for Channel Nine has given comment to the Betoota Advocate today.

“Somewhere along the lines, the wires have been crossed here. There’s an obvious communication breakdown,” said the career television executive and part-time trivia announcer at the Pittwater RSL.

“Australian diplomats are working very hard to help contextualise this incident for the Lebos that locked up our 60 Minutes crew,”

“Number one, white journalist joins white mother in kidnapping kind of white kids from the Middle East. Obviously, we were in the right here”

“Tara – a career journalist is then locked up with the rest of her TV crew. The Lebanese authorities must not understand that this is the same women who interviewed Mel Gibson in her 60 Minutes debut in 2001”.