Stop getting sucked in by the media hysteria

[LeagueXIII]

people need to take a step back and realise alot of what has been written and said about players and the game is media hysteria at it's ugliest.

We have seen it with the Bulldog case, Greg Bird and now Stewart. It's really appalling how everyone has jumped on board and basically got Stewart hung, drawn and quartered.

Here is an interview with the lead detective of the investigation of the so-called Bulldog incident, Gary McEvoy. The media is a loose cannon and basically doing whatever they like in regard to the slant they want to put forward.

Read the interview and make your own mind up:

http://www.rleague.com/db/article.php?id=25196

 

[gong_eagle]

the News ltd machine

 

[Rexxy]

rleague and 2sm. two non profit organisations run by mentally unhinged proprietors.

 

[Scottey]

Of course.
In the end, the media is just another business trying to sell papers and not sink in the recession.

 

[kbw]

Hello,we back in the 1970's are we?

If only, back then the seniors players dealt with idiots by giving them a good beating.
They also had jobs and got brought back into line on the job if they had a big head

 

[bartman]

people need to take a step back and realise alot of what has been written and said about players and the game is media hysteria at it's ugliest.

We have seen it with the Bulldog case, Greg Bird and now Stewart. It's really appalling how everyone has jumped on board and basically got Stewart hung, drawn and quartered.

No it's not... if players steered clear of riskier situations - like "crash tackling" 17 year old girls in their neighbourhood, and like having slippery hands with a glass near your girlfriend's head, and like the hazy interpretations of consent in group sex with someone you hadn't met before, then the media would have nothing to report.

These players are highly paid professionals these days, and have to start acting like other highly paid professionals. If we ever hope for the media to give rugby league a break, we need rugby league to be strong in the first place, about squashing some of the bullsh*t off-field behaviour typified by the Stewart, Bird and Coffs instances out of the game.

 

[Monk]

no you Stop getting sucked in by the media hysteria.

tbh, i havnt read anything at all about the stewart case, i just flip past it in the paper or avoid the threads.

 

[gong_eagle]

 

[Noa]

people need to take a step back and realise alot of what has been written and said about players and the game is media hysteria at it's ugliest.

We have seen it with the Bulldog case, Greg Bird and now Stewart. It's really appalling how everyone has jumped on board and basically got Stewart hung, drawn and quartered.

Here is an interview with the lead detective of the investigation of the so-called Bulldog incident, Gary McEvoy. The media is a loose cannon and basically doing whatever they like in regard to the slant they want to put forward.

Read the interview and make your own mind up:

http://www.rleague.com/db/article.php?id=25196

Agree 1000%. Its only ever about paper sales for the Tele.

Wait till you all see tomorrows back-page headline.

 

[Non Terminator]

I have made my own mind up, and I haven't gotten 'sucked in by the media hysteria'.

 

[$$Poor Boy Blues$$]

i actually love taking an incomplete picture and riding it like a wild-girl.

the people on here get flamed so easily.

its the same with everything in the media.....and you know people get off on this sh*t so easily. in some ways, we are just feeding the animal.

But there is the whole other side of it - incomplete information and stories abound.

We should all really wait for the court case.

 

[MANLYMAGIC08]

No it's not... if players steered clear of riskier situations - like "crash tackling" 17 year old girls in their neighbourhood, and like having slippery hands with a glass near your girlfriend's head, and like the hazy interpretations of consent in group sex with someone you hadn't met before, then the media would have nothing to report.

These players are highly paid professionals these days, and have to start acting like other highly paid professionals. If we ever hope for the media to give rugby league a break, we need rugby league to be strong in the first place, about squashing some of the bullsh*t off-field behaviour typified by the Stewart, Bird and Coffs instances out of the game.

Yes it it.... What about all the good things players, teams and companies are doing in the game? Do you see those stories making front and back page, with updates during the day??

Do you think that in 5 days Stewart's incident took place, noone in the league has been doing good things? Helping kids, familys, expanding the game and the like... ffs!

 

[Noa]

Would people on this forum be just as upset with the media if it was an AFL player instead.

Its time to start blaming the players and not the media.

Melbournes media is a nice, cute little kitten compared to the Sydney media's flea-bitten, feral alley-cat'.

 

[Cloud9]

Besides last year, I haven't seen a witch hunt like this since FOFF 3 years ago.
For some unexplicable reason i take immense pleasure at putting the boot on the other foot.

 

[bartman]

Yes it it.... What about all the good things players, teams and companies are doing in the game? Do you see those stories making front and back page, with updates during the day??

Do you think that in 5 days Stewart's incident took place, noone in the league has been doing good things? Helping kids, familys, expanding the game and the like... ffs!

That's my point... if we take steps to stop players doing the dumb things, then the media won't be able to report things that aren't happening. Then we will hear about the good things.

Stewart's actions totally overshadowed the League's launch of it's policy or program against violence against women in the past few days, launched at Redfern Oval I believe. That would have got some press were it not for an 8 hour bender and a guy with no brain.

 

[myanonymoususername]

people need to take a step back and realise alot of what has been written and said about players and the game is media hysteria at it's ugliest.

We have seen it with the Bulldog case, Greg Bird and now Stewart. It's really appalling how everyone has jumped on board and basically got Stewart hung, drawn and quartered.

Here is an interview with the lead detective of the investigation of the so-called Bulldog incident, Gary McEvoy. The media is a loose cannon and basically doing whatever they like in regard to the slant they want to put forward.

Read the interview and make your own mind up:

http://www.rleague.com/db/article.php?id=25196

The media does run away with it to ridiculous lengths, especially the News Ltd ones (where do they get their league reporters from, failures in grade 7 media studies or something?). However, at the end of the day, all these players did something at least dodgy and possibly illegal, which has attracted attention to them. Had they not done those things, the media would not be interested.

The situations that draw the media attention are 100% controllable by the players in the first place. They only have themselves to blame for the consequences.

 

[Loudstrat]

LeagueXIII, I made my mind up when I saw Matt O'Neill as the author. He'd defend the holocaust if it benefitted Canterbury.

Trial by media - yes - a reality.

So much of a reality that Stewart and his club should have known the dangers.

 

[Pete Cash]

Let us pretend for a minute that there is a massive conspiracy theory designed to destroy Rugby League. Let us accept this "fact" as given.

Why do Rugby League players make it so easy ?

 

[adamkungl]

Besides last year, I haven't seen a witch hunt like this since FOFF 3 years ago.
For some unexplicable reason i take immense pleasure at putting the boot on the other foot.

Oy! FOFF was a noble and just organisation!

 

[myanonymoususername]

Let us pretend for a minute that there is a massive conspiracy theory designed to destroy Rugby League. Let us accept this "fact" as given.

Why do Rugby League players make it so easy ?

Foot - gun - bang! :lol: