At its 2024 programming launch Seven branded itself the “home of mass cultural moments”, presumably without suspecting its own news culture would play a very public role in some mass cultural moments.
Not only did the Bruce Lehrmann defamation trial hear evidence the network reimbursed the interviewee for money spent on cocaine and sex workers, which it denied, but on Sunday Seven News threw the network further into crisis by naming the wrong man on air as the Bondi Junction killer.