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gUt

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You would hardly know the NRL grand final is on this weekend if the ABC website is a guide.

Look at the Grandstand front page. Top 6 stories are

www.abc.net.au/news/sport/

AFL
AFL
NRL
RUWC
NRL
AFL

Then the features sidebar:
AFL
AFL
AFL
RUWC
AFL
NRL
AFL
AFL
AFL
AFL

Reading the news stories this week has seen a rough ratio of 3:1 AFL:NRL grand final stories and features.

There's no doubt the AFLBC sports department is infested with Victorians. Our sport can't get proportional and fair coverage anywhere.
 

gUt

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/justin/

Reading the news stories (changes often),

page 1 - 3 AFL, 2 cricket, 0 NRL
page 2 - 1 AFL, 1 cricket, 1 surfing, 1 motorsport, 0 NRL
page 3 - 2 AFL, 1 tennis, 1 RU, 0 NRL
page 4 - 1 AFL, 1 cricket, 1 NRL

hooray I only had to dig 4 pages in to find a mention of the most popular winter sport in Australia
 

Warriors Fever

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This is disgraceful, what the f is going on in the world of women's basketball that could supplant the NRL Grand Final?
 

elbusto

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Afl is a load of garbage. It has no future and we will win the long game. Ignore the bastards
 

precarious

Juniors
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It is almost an entire industry in itself in Melbourne generating AFL-related news-ready content each day, a product of the AFL "circus". I think once the NRL is generating the same quantity of news-ready content as the AFL (and it seems to be moving in this direction), it will likely get the same level of coverage, certainly online where space constraints matter little.
 
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Perth Red

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Ones aiming to be a national game that has set out to convince public perception its 'Australia's game' the other still can't make up its mind what it wants to be. You reap what you sow.
 
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BuffaloRules

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Rubbish...

It's the Victorian bias of the ABC... It wouldn't matter if there were 6 NRL teams in Perth..
 

dogz08

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Ones aiming to be a national game that has set out to convince public perception its 'Australia's game' the other still can't make up its mind what it wants to be. You reap what you sow.

just another way for you to whinge about perth
 

Perth Red

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Yappityyapyap blah blah,
yep it's all an anti NRL pro AFL conspiracy by the national media company. Tin foil hats at the ready.
 

Perth Red

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Maybe the afl has just been much much better in creating the perception that it is the only national footy code and more popular with a greater reach and following? Maybe that is why media gives it more airtime because they think the Australian public is more interested in it? Or maybe your right, for no logical or sensible reason the medias decision makers Are all from Melbourne and hate NRL lol.
 

elbusto

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Maybe the afl has just been much much better in creating the perception that it is the only national footy code and more popular with a greater reach and following? Maybe that is why media gives it more airtime because they think the Australian public is more interested in it? Or maybe your right, for no logical or sensible reason the medias decision makers Are all from Melbourne and hate NRL lol.

Could you find 50 more ways of making the same point you have made here 2 bloody thousand times already?
 

gUt

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Maybe the afl has just been much much better in creating the perception that it is the only national footy code and more popular with a greater reach and following? Maybe that is why media gives it more airtime because they think the Australian public is more interested in it? Or maybe your right, for no logical or sensible reason the medias decision makers Are all from Melbourne and hate NRL lol.

I am not saying they are anti NRL. I am saying they are pro AFL. There are plenty of logical reasons for this as you well know. For a start it's infested with Victorians. Secondly, AFL doesn't have the predatory media pack following it and generating over the top negativity that NRL has had for decades, in print and from its broadcast partners. Thirdly because AFL is ostensibly an Australian invention, the ABC feels obliged to promote it in the same way JJJ promotes shit Aussie music out of proportion with how good it actually is. 4th, AFL has tight control of the messaging and reporting around itself and the ABC just follows along with every other f**ker.

So now we have a situation where AFL is on News Radio into its non heartland states, as well as AFL programming dominating the grandstand digital app, as well as in the general reporting as I've shown here. That's just the ABC, let alone the shite that Fox and 9 dish up. League is regularly bumped for Union in its heartland states, AFL scores are given at all points of a sports broadcast and there's no way this is reciprocated in Vic/SA/WA.

All of this is out of the NRL's control. The imbalance in reporting has got a life and momentum of its own. Whinging merkins like you though prefer to buy into the Murdoch narrative that the NRL is run by idiots who don't know what they're doing.
 
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GongPanther

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How was the information,that this was a terror related attack,kept quiet until Saturday 1:44 p.m. when people are in full swing in enjoying the AFL and out of the attention of the mainstream (sporting) public.

I guess we wouldn't want an irrelevant Australian's death at the hand of an out and out home grown terrorist to spoil an AFL Grand Final would we?

A question for ABC's 4 Corners.When was it actually known that this was a terrorist attack which occurred on the afternoon (Friday 2nd Oct) before?

And who vetoed the press release until later the next day Saturday almost 24 hours later?

And also,there where no terror advisories...No terror alerts,simply nothing.

Will an investigation such as this (if warranted) be in itself be vetoed (highly likely) by the pro-AFL ABC?

Don't hold your breath.
 

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