Neville Bartos
1 Jun 2008, 11:39
I couldn't find a link but on the front page of the Age this morning, there is a big picture of Robert Murphy's great mark in the Hawks v Bulldogs game and fair enough, a great win by the doggies and they deserve that kind of coverage. The accompanying article by Andrew Rule who is famous for his book 'Leadbelly' on which the TV series Underbelly ws broken and also one of the first Journalists to blow the cover on Ben Cousins' off field problems, has written the column titled 'Bulldogs fly high to dam Franklin in Tassie'.
I don't have time to rewrite the whole article but some of the crap he's written in there is nothing but supporter banter and has no objectivity to it whatsoever.
Some examples:
"True, Lance 'Buddy' Frankling managed five goals. But two of those were gifted to him by opponents grown so confident that they risked turning over the ball rather than stifle their winning rampage"
"Sorry, Hawks. The truth is that Tom Williams played possibly his best game to stop your man Franklin from being the match winner he's so obviously destined to be"
"Oh, and there was a Hudson there yesterday. Ben. He dominated in the ruck... for the Bulldogs." - End of article
We deserved to lose yesterday and the dogs deserved a win, yet that's not enough for Rule who seems to rub it in at any chance he gets. I read Lyal Johnston and Emma Quayle's match report and it was spot on. It didn't bring personal predjudices into it, just stated the facts.
Andrew Rule, stop publishing your own personal opinion pieces on the front page, and stop reporting on what happens on the field. The age already has plenty of well paid Journos to do so.
I don't have time to rewrite the whole article but some of the crap he's written in there is nothing but supporter banter and has no objectivity to it whatsoever.
Some examples:
"True, Lance 'Buddy' Frankling managed five goals. But two of those were gifted to him by opponents grown so confident that they risked turning over the ball rather than stifle their winning rampage"
"Sorry, Hawks. The truth is that Tom Williams played possibly his best game to stop your man Franklin from being the match winner he's so obviously destined to be"
"Oh, and there was a Hudson there yesterday. Ben. He dominated in the ruck... for the Bulldogs." - End of article
We deserved to lose yesterday and the dogs deserved a win, yet that's not enough for Rule who seems to rub it in at any chance he gets. I read Lyal Johnston and Emma Quayle's match report and it was spot on. It didn't bring personal predjudices into it, just stated the facts.
Andrew Rule, stop publishing your own personal opinion pieces on the front page, and stop reporting on what happens on the field. The age already has plenty of well paid Journos to do so.