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[Disinterested third party]

What's this mean

He hopped into 7:30 this week describing their reporting of rugby league as being ACA like.

 

[magpie_man]

He hopped into 7:30 this week describing their reporting of rugby league as being ACA like.

Yep, apparently they did some sort of crisis piece about cocaine use in the NRL being rife (I didn't see it).
Webster let them have it in the "Thumbs Down" part of his column.

 

[Stallion]

Yep, apparently they did some sort of crisis piece about cocaine use in the NRL being rife (I didn't see it).
Webster let them have it in the "Thumbs Down" part of his column.

Good on Webster! It's about time the journalists took note of biased coverage against rugby league! Even the lack of coverage re: the recent RL world cup is another failure from particularly the ABC.

 

[insert.pause]

Yep, apparently they did some sort of crisis piece about cocaine use in the NRL being rife (I didn't see it).
Webster let them have it in the "Thumbs Down" part of his column.

The "expert academic" on societal drug use the abc used has an image of some afl wanker as her banner image on twitter...

 

[Bronco18]

He hopped into 7:30 this week describing their reporting of rugby league as being ACA like.

Damn I’d like to see that - anywhere it would be online? What day did it air?

 

[Captain Apollo]

Paul Kent had a second columns in Saturday's Telegraph where he ripped into the ABC also over its reporting of the so called "cocaine problem" in rugby league. One of the very few times I've read a Kent penned article where he didn't bag off rugby league but stood up for it.

 

[Burwood]

 

[Disinterested third party]

As I said in another thread, Hinds is clearly a fan of these threads in this part of the forum. Copy and paste job.

 

[El Diablo]

it does have sensible stuff in it

What we do know is that the NRL boss was looking for a way to short circuit the relentless and often contrived negativity that has stifled his competition's growth.

Greenberg tweeted his appeal to the game's better instincts in response to yet another typically hysterical, mindless and self-serving attack on the NRL's rules crackdown.

It came not just from the most ignorant and parochial fans, but from those in the media whose self-appointed role is to forensically examine all elements of an excellent sport in search of perceived faults and declare the game to be in perpetual "crisis".

Those players, administrators, fans, volunteers and more reasonable members of the media who understand the damage decades of this relentless and often contrived "crisis" had done to the sport.

They realised, particularly, that ill-conceived criticism of a game that has grown into a wonderful, athletic spectacle has been a millstone in the face of stiff opposition from rival codes.

They know the self-serving mantra of the serial muckrakers — "rugby league thrives on crisis" — is merely an excuse to drag a pretty good game through the mud.

Ignorantly or perhaps mischievously, some in the media decided #TalkTheGameUp was a directive to them not, as seemed obvious, an attempt to circumvent them and talk directly to the fans.

Even usually measured reporters huffed that the NRL had no right to insist the media bent to the game's will and overlook legitimate causes for criticism.

Never mind that some of these reporters have had no problem tailoring their copy to the agendas of valued sources or their media outlets.

But, again, for members of the NRL media to suddenly channel their inner Woodward and Bernstein and claim they are being censored completely misses the point of the #TalkTheGameUp campaign

This was not a demand that journalists report the NRL through a sepia-toned lens and ignore its worst crimes and misdemeanours.

It was an appeal to fans and others who love the game to ignore the very worst indulgences of the "crisis merchants" — a term, incidentally, coined in this column and borrowed by Greenberg.

Thus #TalkTheGameUp was not an attack on the free press by an official armed with a powerful social media tool.

It was a legitimate response to those whose main objective is not to fairly examine rugby league, but to drag a good game into the gutter.

 

[Disinterested third party]

I'm yet to be convinced it is not a variation on Fitzhardon's 'I love rugby league but...' They all use it to try and make their attacks on the game look more legitimate.

 

[gUt]

Hinds has written some drivel on RL but he's also written some balanced stuff. I respect him for now.

 

[LESStar58]

Standard anti RL dress from the ABC.

Move along

 

[titoelcolombiano]

Love Greenburg or hate him, it is refreshing to see a CEO of our game that actually seems like he cares about it and actively standing up for it.

 

[El Diablo]

I'm yet to be convinced it is not a variation on Fitzhardon's 'I love rugby league but...' They all use it to try and make their attacks on the game look more legitimate.

he seems to be attacking his former News Corp colleagues because he has seen first hand how those cretins operate when writing about Rugby League

 

[Disinterested third party]

I think there is an element of that for sure. They are pretty easy to dislike let's face it...

 

[taipan]

Love Greenburg or hate him, it is refreshing to see a CEO of our game that actually seems like he cares about it and actively standing up for it.

Imagine hypothetically dynamic Dave G attempting to talk the game up.
Uuum, aaaah excuse me, but we are a beaut game, I've followed it ever since I received my charisma implant .
.All the players do their level best for the community, but we just can't compete with AFL,because I stuffed up in the Tv negotiations( because my bosses half owned the game and I have to bow and scrape to Rupert ,as I am in reality ,his hand puppet.
I do not want to upset the Tv execs, they are too powerful and can be mean when they're angry.
And I need to keep feeding Slothfield with all the latest scoops with any off field indiscretion.
We just have to keep playing second fiddle, and live with it.
Kindest Regards
Uuum AAagh Dave.

 

[El Diablo]

can you imagine Kent or Sloth writing a story like this about Rugby League?

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/op...n/news-story/2d28ad6472a1aca2339361758762bf23

the DT wouldn't allow it

 

[taipan]

can you imagine Kent or Sloth writing a story like this about Rugby League?

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/op...n/news-story/2d28ad6472a1aca2339361758762bf23

the DT wouldn't allow it

Damn paywall, can you elaborate.Burt i think I get the gist anyway with the title.
AFL players all help old ladies cross the road.
The D.T writes NRL players trip old ladies as they cross the road.

 

[El Diablo]

Damn paywall, can you elaborate.Burt i think I get the gist anyway with the title.
AFL players all help old ladies cross the road.
The D.T writes NRL players trip old ladies as they cross the road.

https://www.outline.com/

 

[LeagueXIII]

I'm yet to be convinced it is not a variation on Fitzhardon's 'I love rugby league but...' They all use it to try and make their attacks on the game look more legitimate.

Passive aggressive you might say.