Text messages exchanged between Lisa Wilkinson and Peter Meakin before the broadcast of the television interview with Brittany Higgins shed light on the mood inside the Ten camp.
Lisa Wilkinson arrived in Canberra ahead of the broadcast of her television interview with Brittany Higgins about the former Liberal staffer’s alleged sexual assault in Parliament House and texted “mission complete!” to veteran news boss Peter Meakin , documents released by the Federal Court reveal. But Meakin sounded a note of caution, texting Wilkinson at 10.38pm on February 13, 2021: “Not just yet. We have still to see how the pigeons react.
”Text messages tendered in evidence in former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann’s Federal Court defamation case against Ten and Wilkinson over the interview with Higgins, aired onon February 15, 2021, provide an insight into the mood inside the Ten camp days and hours before the broadcast.“The story has to be absolutely right, and I know it will be picked apart by all those in power with vested interests .
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