Crisis talks for Seven News and Today Tonight … Chris Bath gets a glossy publicity push … Last night’s TV ratings.
Afl players
Shooting the messenger over the AFL drugs scandal
Leslie Cannold in The Age online today wheels out the good old cliché deployed any time the media come under attack for anything: “Are we shooting the messenger”? The question is raised over Channel 7’s conduct in publishing material from the medical records of two AFL players.
Media briefs and TV ratings
Seven backs down; acknowledges AFL masters … Last night’s TV ratings.
September should mean footy, not footy politics
The calendar’s clicked over into September, the sun’s out, the smell of freshly mown grass fills the air and footy finals are about to begin around the country.
The AFL Players’ Association is acting like a spoilt child
AFLPA Association Boss, Brendan Gale, conducted a vicious press conference yesterday, in which he suggested that players would boycott Channel Seven as retribution for it revealing that two Melbourne-based players had twice tested positive for illicit drugs.
Don’t take the coaching carrot Kevin, it could be a banana skin
For all those AFL players (memo: N Buckley, R Harvey etc) and coaches (K Sheedy) thinking of carrying on for another season or two, please, have a look at the way Victorian Premier Steve Bracks bowed out of politics last week - at the top of his game.
