Rumour ben cousins been missing for 1 month...

MediaWatch is too busy being "pot a conservative journalist" for the last 10 years to do that sort of job anymore

"This week on media watch. We fact check Andrew Bolt's Friday night uber eats order! And later a voice actor will read some excerpts from a Janet Albrechtson article in an intentionally sarcastic voice..."
 
We should be mindful that drug users are not victims. They are perpetrators.
They’re both. Drug abuse destroys a person’s id, their sense of self agency. It disinhibits them from committing crime and/or other destructive behaviours, alienates and isolates them both from their loved ones and the world at large, financially cripples them, and leads to health problems and death if not treated properly.

You can see that with Cousins. The man had everything to live for. He was an adored footballing hero, a favourite son in his home town. He’d a young family, money, fame, talent to burn and he has thrown that all away. He’s a common junkie now with nothing to his personality beyond the monomaniacal urge to use, and he probably knows himself that he’s pissed it all away. While he is ultimately the architect of his own ill-fortune, and is a danger to his family if one believes the authorities and his criminal record, it’s impossible not to feel a bit of sympathy at the sheer human waste of his case. Shame Yarran was another such character.
 
Shame Yarran was another such character.

Shane Yarran? I don't think they're really comparable.

Cousins was born into a life of privilege even by Western middle class standards. He had it all and threw it away. Yarran's story was very, very different.
 
I reckon he started out doing speed and coke when still at school because he was a thrill-seeker and thought he was invincible.

...guess he wasn't.
Rumour is he started out selling huge quantities of Cannabis to all the rich kids at his exclusive High school.
Funded by some one that should know better.
 
I know where he is.
Bloke needs help and without saying to much if any Eagles fans on here have contact with the club - contact them.
So they can grab his Brownlow and look after it for him. He was wearing it out the other night and it was thought he is looking to get rid of it.
We might take him on a bush trip to all the small communities up North.
 
They’re both. Drug abuse destroys a person’s id, their sense of self agency. It disinhibits them from committing crime and/or other destructive behaviours, alienates and isolates them both from their loved ones and the world at large, financially cripples them, and leads to health problems and death if not treated properly.

These widely known potential consequences of drug use are known by pretty much everyone and yet still some choose to go down this rickety path. You can’t half way down, when addiction takes hold, claim yourself to be a victim of addition anymore than a drink driver who smashes into a tree can claim to be a victim of alcohol. At some point there was a choice; and the person chose poorly despite an abundance of evidence re the risks.
 
"This week on media watch. We fact check Andrew Bolt's Friday night uber eats order! And later a voice actor will read some excerpts from a Janet Albrechtson article in an intentionally sarcastic voice..."
Sarcasm is Abrechtson's bread and butter, how else are you going to read it?
 
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