impaul99 : This is why I categorically ignore any information coming from A Current Affair (and the "slightly worse" Today Tonight).
As you mention, it's a lot of editing trickery and the complete uselessness of a "surprise interview". I'm sure that if I was holding someone's money (honestly or otherwise) and I got surprised by an ACA interviewer asking "where's the money?" I'd say "I don't know, I didn't prepare for that question, I'd have to look it up".
Of course, nor do I think Schirmer is a saint just to spite ACA.
In the end the information is completely irrelevant to me. I'm smart enough to know not to invest at 900%pa without expecting some serious risk attached and without a strong contract to make everyone's intentions and obligations clear. I don't need ACA to tell me this.
ACA isn't at all informative. It's simply mindless, shallow entertainment with a bit of fear thrown in for some nicotine-like addiction.
Or it's slightly less shallow meta-entertainment, where you have fun picking apart the sneaky editing and invalid leaps of logic to try and identify the spin
