Imagine your trauma leads the news. Your private life is then public property. Your anonymity is lost. That’s what it’s like to become an accidental celebrity. Now, the spotlight is turned around. Each weekly episode offers rare media insights from an ordinary Australian who faced an extraordinary event. They expose the tricks of a competitive trade – the relentless pursuits, the manipulation and misrepresentation, the betrayals of truth and trust – with journalist Fiona Reynolds. Learn too why they participated in media coverage. This is the inside story on a shrewd industry that plucks unknowns from obscurity to feed our fascination with adversity and the strength of the human spirit.
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Imagine your trauma leads the news. Your private life is then public property. Your anonymity is lost. That’s what it’s like to become an accidental celebrity. Now, the spotlight is turned around. Each weekly episode offers rare media insights from an ordinary Australian who faced an extraordinary event. They expose the tricks of a competitive trade – the relentless pursuits, the manipulation and misrepresentation, the betrayals of truth and trust – with journalist Fiona Reynolds. Learn too why they participated in media coverage. This is the inside story on a shrewd industry that plucks unknowns from obscurity to feed our fascination with adversity and the strength of the human spirit.
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/accidental-celebrity.
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Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton became recognisable to millions of Australians after a dingo took her precious baby Azaria in 1980. The young mother found her privacy invaded and portrayal twisted as her story and identity became commodities to the media.
Music credits:
SFX
nikon f3 with motordrive by Tim Kahn - Freesound.org
Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)
Old_bakelite_telephone_hang_up_handset by Martin Dürr - Freesound.org
Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)
Rockfall in mine by Benboncan - Freesound.org
Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)
Connex Charlie by Tanoseki - Freesound.org
Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)
courthouse lobby ambience by Tomlija - Freesound.org
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MUSIC
Theme: Epic Adventure by BlueBirdSound
Newsflash 2 by Sascha Ende
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/160-newsflash-2
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Half Mystery by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/5026-half-mystery
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Breaking News 1 by Sascha Ende
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/5950-breaking-news-1
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Urban Gauntlet by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/5012-urban-gauntlet
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Long Note Two by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/3994-long-note-two
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Dark Secrets (DECISION) by Sascha Ende
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/246-dark-secrets-decision-
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The Call - Mattia Cupelli
https://www.mattiacupelli.com/
Myuu - Countdown https://www.thedarkpiano.com/
Breaking News 4 by Sascha Ende
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/5953-breaking-news-4
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Enter the Maze by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/3712-enter-the-maze
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Rising Tide by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/5027-rising-tide
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The Sea Of Meditation by chilledmusic
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/7023-the-sea-of-meditation-
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Media credits:
Content supplied and/or licensed for use courtesy of Nine Entertainment Co (incl. The Footage Company Australia / Nine Network Australia), News Corp Australia and Are Media Pty Limited.
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