on 08-02-2015 02:20 PM
on 08-02-2015 04:36 PM
I believe that lawyers would have been on to them straight away to go for the money because they want their cut. Who knows what will be done with the money what is left of it.
I'm sure they would be entitled to make a victims of crime compensation claim and they will need it to cover any help they need.
Apart from anything else it might help them with their recovery to talk about it. I would like to see it but I'm not sure that I will be watching tonight.
08-02-2015 07:11 PM - edited 08-02-2015 07:16 PM
That's it Joono, these people are victims.They didn't ask to be in this position and their lives will never be the same again.
I don't begrudge them a dollar for what they have been through.
The only people entitled to jump on any outrage bus (if there is one) imo would be the families of the two who lost their lives.
Our judgements and disgust should be saved for the perpetrators and real criminals, not the victims.
on 08-02-2015 07:50 PM
@j*oono wrote:I hope you are wrong Polka and I'm hoping that channel 7 and the producers do the right thing by them. It would be criminal to make them a victim again.
i agree with what you say here but i hope it goes a step further and the general pubic don't judge them on the choices they made both during the siege and in any interviews afterwards.
THEY are the ones who experienced it and what they choose to do, such as give interviews afterwards, paid or unpaid is their decision to make and I think it unfair to say they are 'prostituting' themselves, as somebody further up so judgmentally phrased it.
on 08-02-2015 02:37 PM
Not interested.
on 08-02-2015 04:09 PM
The problem with those kind of shows is that all the people are being privately interviewed, then the whole show is scripted, cut and pasted to suit the producers of the show.
Some of the thing the people have said will be cut out, because it is not dramatic enough or answers get changed to a different question that the answer was originally said to.
Erica
on 08-02-2015 04:12 PM
on 08-02-2015 04:21 PM
Of course you are dear
on 08-02-2015 04:22 PM
The fact that they are paid is the reason that I am not interested.
I would never prostitute myself if I had been through that experience, and have no interest in those that do.
on 08-02-2015 04:29 PM
on 08-02-2015 04:33 PM
I think I'll set aside some time to wash my hair while this tawdry hour or so TV presentation makes a pitch for the larmoyant viewer.
on 08-02-2015 04:36 PM
I believe that lawyers would have been on to them straight away to go for the money because they want their cut. Who knows what will be done with the money what is left of it.
I'm sure they would be entitled to make a victims of crime compensation claim and they will need it to cover any help they need.
Apart from anything else it might help them with their recovery to talk about it. I would like to see it but I'm not sure that I will be watching tonight.
08-02-2015 04:49 PM - edited 08-02-2015 04:51 PM
It won't help their recovery to expose themselves on television. That will have the opposite effect.
They need to do that in a doctor's or counsellor's rooms.