The New Age slammed for 'lazy' reporting

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• Mail & Guardian: Report: FNB ads scripted, children paid as actors... This is what The New Age claims... "the videos were scripted and that the children were paid R3,500 a day to appear in the videos" according to the Mail & Guardian report.
  
• Mail & Guardian: FNB slams New Age for 'lazy' reporting... And this is what the bank reckons... The New Age is guilty of 'lazy reporting and, according the Mail & Guardian report, Bernice Samuels, FNB chief marketing officer, said that "although contributors to the main 'There will be a day' advert were indeed compensated for their services, respondents in the controversial video clips which accompanied the campaign were not" and that "the clips were a sample of the responses from 1,300 respondents interviewed ... and that their replies were their own views and were not scripted or censored".

  So, the questions are:
  • Are The New Age claims valid?
  • Are FNB's claims that the newspaper is guilty of 'lazy' reporting valid?
  • Even if the final videos were edited/scripted, do they still reflect the genuine hopes and views of the children that appear in them?

  • Whom are you going to believe? The New Age, or FNB?