Tara vs. Tara: The Weekly’s solution to silence on 60 Minutes kidnap scandal

THE last thing 60 Minutes reporter Tara Brown wants to face is a hard hitting interviewer. But she’s never faced someone like this before.

NO comment? No problem.

It’s been tough to get a comment out of Channel Nine, or 60 Minutes reporter Tara Brown herself about the current affairs show’s botched Beirut kidnapping story.

But that didn’t stop ABC satirical news program The Weekly with Charlie Pickering from wading into the debate.

Clearly deciding the only way to get to the bottom of the scandal was to get Brown herself on the case, the program last night pitted Tara against Tara.

The result is a beautifully biting satirical piece, which cuts clips of Brown on the front foot questioning disgraced ‘wellness advocate’ blogger Belle Gibson in an interview last year, with Brown’s own answers when she was interviewed about the botched kidnap attempt on last Sunday night’s 60 Minutes.

Billed as a “60 Minutes exclusive ... Tara Brown interviewed by Tara Brown’, the satirical video opens with Brown as interviewee stating: “I think when we presented ourselves and we were being questioned I really thought ‘you know we’re journalists, we’re doing our job’,” to which interviewer Brown says an incredulous “really?”.

Meanwhile, an internal Channel Nine investigation into the Beirut bungling continues, with no word on when it will be completed, and how much of the outcome of the review will be made public

But a special on the botched kidnapping and the story of the woman at its centre, Sally Faulkner, is tipped to air on Channel Nine next Wednesday.