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What’s it like being a female journalist in a sport dominated by sex scandal headlines and mistreatment of women? Rugby League journo Jacquelin Magnay tells how to play the game.

ABC’s Four Corners have issued a statement to “set the record straight” on their recent episode “Code of Silence”, which explored sexual misconduct within the NRL.

Crikey’s readers join the fray on the Matthew Johns issue.

Pack sex is working class males’ one-fingered salute to the sexual myths the media has immersed them in since childhood.

Fusion Strategy says the networks are all weak in 16 to 39s with viewing down just over 5% in this demo.

Men are capable of reasoning and judgement, and indeed are expected to exercise it at all times in our society, writes monkeytypist.

As well as bringing into focus that culture, the Johns Affair also raises questions about the sometimes murky relationship between sportswriters and their sport.

The ugly little passion play precipitated by Monday night’s Four Corners program “Code of silence” is full of preconceptions and prejudices, but conspicuously short of nuance, writes Michael Winkler.

Another week, another self-inflicted machete wound to rugby league’s torso, writes Crikey’s resident footy nerd.

Crikey readers flog Marrickville Council, Matthew Johns, the Kruddget and an assortment of other dead horses.

The NRL group sex scandal has forced Kevin Rudd to discuss the incident rather than promote nation building, writes Christian Kerr.

The affaire Johns is becoming a prism through which all the composite rays of our culture are being examined, writes Guy Rundle.

You’d think a technology reporter for a major metropolitan newspaper would be aware of the perils of airing his private views on very public internet forums.

Budget 09, Matthew Johns, journalist shield laws and house foreclosures — is the nothing Crikey readers won’t chat about?

It’s Budget Week, and Wayne Swan has come up trumps in the battle for media oxygen.

NRL personality Matthew Johns has been “boned” by Channel Nine after his part in a Cronulla group-sex incident, while former St Kilda coach Grant Thomas has been given the arse by radio station SEN.

Matthew Johns stands down amid sex scandal, the ever shrinking SMH and reporter tweets being shot.

My first experience of league group sex occurred in a mid-sized New Zealand city, writes the New Zealand Herald’s Chris Rattue.

Sydney talkback callers are ignoring the Budget to keep talking about NRL personality Matthew Johns’ group sex scandal. Trevor Cook suggests three courses of action for the player.