Four Corners is undoubtedly one of the most (if not the most) important programmes on Australian television. It's also one of the longest running; 51 years and still counting. This book brings together some of it's biggest stories and best reporters including Kerry O'Brien, Jonathan Holmes, Chris Masters, Peter Manning, Jenny Brockie, David Marr and Liz Jackson.
Four Corners has covered many important stories over it's long history, but the thing that surprised me the most about this book was in Debbie Whitmont's chapter recounting her efforts to cover the plight of asylum seekers in detention. It wasn't so much the story that surprised me, but then immigrations minister Philip Ruddock's performance on the 7.30 Report not long after the story was aired where, in relation to the case of a child who has suffered trauma while in detention, he referred to the child as "it" thus dehumanising the child. I was so disgusted by this that from now on I will refer to Ruddock as an it.
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