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nobbyiscool said:
Posts like this, where any dislike of a woman is automatically put down to gender, are why people like me are howled down whenever we try to raise genuine issues of gender or inequality.

Undoubtedly, a lot of people hated her based on her gender. But to me, your post seems to suggest that it was the primary problem that "people" (presumably people in general) had with her. It was not:

- She was a hypocrite, criticising footballers (rugby league players) for drug or alcohol indiscretions despite her own drink driving history. She didn't believe she should be held to the same account as players because "players are role models".

- She wasn't qualified for her job - there aren't too many better examples of nepotism in Australian media. I think you can get away with a lot as a journalist/columnist if you write well, and if you tell good stories. But she wasn't even a talented writer.

- Ask people whose photos were stolen from their social media accounts and incorrectly put on her front page article about A-League "hooligans" whether their hatred is based on gender. There were people's photos there whose only crime was having the same name as someone who had been banned. There was another guy who has spent 3 years fighting his ban cos he swears he was a bystander who lost his job as a result. (There's just a tinge of irony that you're accusing people of baseless, irrational hatred when that was Wilson's attitude towards the round ball game.)

I feel bad for her kids to lose their mother so young, because obviously her work as a columnist does not reflect on her as a mother.

But after adopting the approach of "if you can't say anything nice don't say anything at all" for the last 3 days, I can't sit here and have genuine discussions around gender, inequality and women in sport discredited by trying to use people's dislike for Wilson as a shining example of what women in sports media deal with.
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Exactly what I thought about her. I have always stated my case on her.
 

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HBF said:
Do we know why Ox was missing this morning and well into the week?
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HBF said:
So much better. Not a huge fan of Wallace, but the last couple of mornings have been alot better to listen to.
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i concur. wallaces voice is taxing on the body, however he's been good with leach.

i think however leach could host the show alone.
 
Is anyone else having issues with SEN on a digital radio today.

I was listening then all of a sudden it dropped out.
 
MYOB said:
Is anyone else having issues with SEN on a digital radio today.

I was listening then all of a sudden it dropped out.
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Oh good, I'm glad it's not just me - I thought I was just having issues with my aerial, so I'm kind of relieved that someone else is having an issue.
 
HBF said:
He's terrible. I'm sure he's a nice bloke, but he just isn't the right bloke for breakfast radio.
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I'd go as far as to say he just isn't the right bloke for radio, full stop. The thing is, he seems to be the host on the station with the best rapport among "average Joe" sort of listeners, so I suspect he'll always be involved in one way or another.

Like you, it makes you feel bad to say, because he does seem to me like a pretty good bloke.

But he just struggles so badly to express himself properly. You cringe every time he pauses and stumbles mid-sentence as he tries, and generally fails, to find the right words to use.
 
BlueBen said:
I'd go as far as to say he just isn't the right bloke for radio, full stop. The thing is, he seems to be the host on the station with the best rapport among "average Joe" sort of listeners, so I suspect he'll always be involved in one way or another.

Like you, it makes you feel bad to say, because he does seem to me like a pretty good bloke.

But he just struggles so badly to express himself properly. You cringe every time he pauses and stumbles mid-sentence as he tries, and generally fails, to find the right words to use.
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he's in between worlds. if he dumbs it down he can resonate with the average SEN listener. If he tries to be intellectual of sorts, he is lost.

He can be the robbo of radio land, but has to decide and stick with it.
 

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BlueBen said:
I'd go as far as to say he just isn't the right bloke for radio, full stop. The thing is, he seems to be the host on the station with the best rapport among "average Joe" sort of listeners, so I suspect he'll always be involved in one way or another.

Like you, it makes you feel bad to say, because he does seem to me like a pretty good bloke.

But he just struggles so badly to express himself properly. You cringe every time he pauses and stumbles mid-sentence as he tries, and generally fails, to find the right words to use.
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That's why Ox should have stayed in the afternoon.
He and Marco worked well there, but you need someone a bit more sophisticated in the mornings.
 
I do laugh when they do talkback on a semi serious subject and a caller will ring up, make a point and ox usually follows with "yeah, it's not good" and that's about it. He was awesome on Friday afternoons with MG and Turf.
 
craigos said:
I do laugh when they do talkback on a semi serious subject and a caller will ring up, make a point and ox usually follows with "yeah, it's not good" and that's about it. He was awesome on Friday afternoons with MG and Turf.
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haha yes heard him utter those words in discussion about kyrios
 

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Marko talking about creaking floorboards in his house is about as interesting as watching milk ferment.
 
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