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How Fashions on the Field suits Peter Jackson
Could Fashions on the Field — that Derby Day staple and the heart of fashion democracy — have been hijacked by corporates? wonders Jane Nethercote.
The story behind the … oh forget it. Let’s call it ‘Crikey got snowed’
Steve Carey and Peter Morris of Channel Seven News should be commended on their powers of persuasion, in convincing Crikey that their story “Sudanese Gangs Caught on Camera” wasn’t riddled with falsehoods. Put simply, Crikey got snowed, writes Media Watch executive producer Tim Palmer.
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.
AFL medical records raise issues of law and ethics
Despite the Victorian media accusing the AFL of joining “a concerted effort to keep from the public a drug scandal that has rocked a top Melbourne club”, as the Sunday Herald-Sun put it, this is an unfair characterization of the issue, writes Greg Barns.
