The Newsreader (TV Series) The White Marquis Matinee Jacket (2021) User Reviews

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[Sleepin_Dragon · 8/10 · 27 December 2022]

Helen is given a major scoop, the release of Lindy Chamberlain, who's just been released from prison, having served time for the death of her baby.

It is proving to be an incredibly watchable, and engrossing series, the story of changing journalism in Australia in the 1980's is fascinating, even in the couple of episodes that we've seen, we get the changing of the guard, journalism not just being about the news, but the tone, the need to get hold of the big story, money no object of course.

The Lindy Chamberlain story was massive, it was a very public case, a woman who's child was taken by a dingo, but she was convicted of her murder, later released.

Dale is definitely hot property, not just in front of the camera or behind it, but away from work too, poor guy feels like he's being hunted down by both Helen and cameraman Tim.

8/10.

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[Prismark10 · 6/10 · 10 September 2022]

Helen Norville and Dale Jennings are sent to Darwin to cover another real life news event from mid 1980s.

That of Lindy Chamberlain, jailed several years earlier for the murder of her baby in the outback.

Lindy claimed that a dingo took the baby away.

Now new evidence has come to light and Lindy is awaiting release from prison.

Geoff Walters is left disappointed. He hoped to cover the story as he was heavily involved during the initial trial of Lindy Chamberlain.

Getting Lindy to talk on camera might be dubbed as the interview of the century. This is a fictional show covering real life events. The producers had to walk a tightrope.

So Helen and Dale never landed this interview. However the episode does cover a changing landscape of journalism. That of paying high sums of money to land an interview.