Comments on: Weekend at Corey’s: an idiot’s guide to fame http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/01/16/weekend-at-coreys-an-idiots-guide-to-fame/ now with extra source Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:29:33 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Tom http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/01/16/weekend-at-coreys-an-idiots-guide-to-fame/#comment-209 Tom Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-209 It's a meta story for sure. The kid has flair but totally uneven bout. It's likely to become child abuse no matter how sharp or brave he sounds now. Sooo Big Media flakes need the shallow. That's the real story. Serious bad, shallow OK, in fact crucial. It’s a meta story for sure. The kid has flair but totally uneven bout. It’s likely to become child abuse no matter how sharp or brave he sounds now. Sooo Big Media flakes need the shallow. That’s the real story. Serious bad, shallow OK, in fact crucial.

]]> By: Rod http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/01/16/weekend-at-coreys-an-idiots-guide-to-fame/#comment-210 Rod Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-210 You would think it would be very hard for a drop-kick 16-year-old with attitude and ridiculous sunglasses to make a seasoned journalist look even sillier than him, but Corey Worthington managed to do it with ACA's Leila McKinnon. The more a puffed up Leila began to take on the persona of an outraged parent, the more I cheered for the insouciant Corey. His response to the question about what he would advise other 16-year-olds to do -- "Get me to organise your party" was the best response to a tabloid TV question I've heard in a long time. No wonder it's ended up on Youtube. The adults involved in this saga, including the media and the Police Commissioner, all seem to be making the classic mistake first chronicled in the movie Rebel Without A Cause -- the more they publicly criticise dopey Corey and give him a profile, the more his own generation thinks he's cool! I'd like to give his parents some advice about what to say to him (in private) but I can't think of anything. You would think it would be very hard for a drop-kick 16-year-old with attitude and ridiculous sunglasses to make a seasoned journalist look even sillier than him, but Corey Worthington managed to do it with ACA’s Leila McKinnon.

The more a puffed up Leila began to take on the persona of an outraged parent, the more I cheered for the insouciant Corey. His response to the question about what he would advise other 16-year-olds to do — “Get me to organise your party” was the best response to a tabloid TV question I’ve heard in a long time. No wonder it’s ended up on Youtube.

The adults involved in this saga, including the media and the Police Commissioner, all seem to be making the classic mistake first chronicled in the movie Rebel Without A Cause — the more they publicly criticise dopey Corey and give him a profile, the more his own generation thinks he’s cool!

I’d like to give his parents some advice about what to say to him (in private) but I can’t think of anything.

]]> By: Glenn http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/01/16/weekend-at-coreys-an-idiots-guide-to-fame/#comment-211 Glenn Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-211 It is starting to get wearisome isn't it? When it comes to the end of the fiasco it has to be the poor residents of the surrounding area who should get the sympathy vote. 500 revved up teenagers going crazy in your street? Nope, no fun thanks It is starting to get wearisome isn’t it? When it comes to the end of the fiasco it has to be the poor residents of the surrounding area who should get the sympathy vote. 500 revved up teenagers going crazy in your street? Nope, no fun thanks

]]> By: M A Smith http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/01/16/weekend-at-coreys-an-idiots-guide-to-fame/#comment-212 M A Smith Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-212 How did Rod get to make such a long comment? It was interesting, but most of us get cut off after only How did Rod get to make such a long comment? It was interesting, but most of us get cut off after only

]]> By: Tom#2 http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/01/16/weekend-at-coreys-an-idiots-guide-to-fame/#comment-213 Tom#2 Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-213 What role alcohol industry, ditto at the tennis? Underage? Late night trading hours as a bad example? Who sold/gave em the piss? The drug society in denial. What role alcohol industry, ditto at the tennis? Underage? Late night trading hours as a bad example? Who sold/gave em the piss? The drug society in denial.

]]> By: Really http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/01/16/weekend-at-coreys-an-idiots-guide-to-fame/#comment-214 Really Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-214 Haven't you got better mmore interesting stuff to write about? Haven’t you got better mmore interesting stuff to write about?

]]> By: Matthew Ridgeway http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/01/16/weekend-at-coreys-an-idiots-guide-to-fame/#comment-215 Matthew Ridgeway Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-215 The parents are to blame, they had not taught their child respact, AND they left him home alone to do as he liked. The kids should be locked up and the parents need to look at themselves more. The parents are to blame, they had not taught their child respact, AND they left him home alone to do as he liked. The kids should be locked up and the parents need to look at themselves more.

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