The Lost Symbol

The call from the picture editor on The Australian came early on a Tuesday. Not unusual, but the pictorial brief was to photograph inside the Freemasons’ Grand Lodge in the centre of Sydney, drawing back the veil of secrecy around the organisation which features in Dan Brown’s new book, The Lost Symbol.

I’m not a fan of Dan Brown, nor do I profess to be Freemansony. I knew very little about the subject when I walked into the lift at the Freemasons United Grand Lodge..

I knew that with Freemasons there were handshakes, secret passwords, aprons and something to do with architecture.

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This is what happens when a group of media are sent to cover an event but miss the “money shot”.

We’re going to take you behind the scenes. Our unedited video captures the moment some media crews faked an event not once but twice.

For the launch of author Dan Brown’s new thriller The Lost Symbol, various media assembled to shoot a group of speed readers. The idea was the fastest reader could give the book’s first-ever review. The trouble was, after two and a half hours of waiting for the keen readers to plough through 500 pages most of the media had their eyes off the ball.

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