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Old Spice
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We are all familar with the muck-raking dished up a few years ago over Didak and Didak/Shaw incidents.
At the time, Eduardo - who is well positioned to know as a former journo - pointed out in a Hun article that nothing sells like Collingwood stories, positive or negative. El Pres stated that the most copies of that rag were sold after the Pies premiership in 1990, more than were sold post September 11, 2001. It's pretty clear that to flog papers, there is nothing like talking about Collingwood, and some make their gravy by getting on the anti-Pies bandwagon and flogging our club.
Mike Sheahan earned for me the title of muck-raker, par excellence, after his calls for Didak to be axed. That stupid call created a predictable audience spike, as it was intended to, but also a furore amongst Pie fans.
It's not clear whether the Magpie backlash against Sheahan's article cooled his - or more likely the sport's editors and marketing departments - ardor for Collingwood witch-hunts or whether there has simply been nothing to hang their hat on, but the fact is that indiscretions by players from other clubs have not recieved the same level of vitriol in the Hun. Nor should they.
Hurley and Stokes obviously received attention for their misdemeanors, but you can't help but imagine that if those players had played for the Pies, that there would have been hysterical calls for their discharge. Either Sheahan has mellowed, or he has double standards.
Harry was right to talk about the shrill media circus surrounding Matthew Stokes, articulating a call to help rather than hang players out to dry, but was for that effort derided by Kevin Bartlett and Greg Denham on SEN.
This is already long, so I wont go into depth about Greg Denham's noxious attitudes about Collingwood - which today canvassed shit-canning Mick's detente with umpires, Heath Shaw's umpire touch, and our interchange numbers - but suffice it to say, he is no friend.
I also heard today the pro-mo for the Superfooty booklet, which stated that the pictures were in colour for Pies supporters, who are supposedly remedial.
We all know Collingwood hatred is grist to the media mill, but in that environment, I am a big advocate of picking favourites within the media stable, and leaving d*ckheads frozen out. If journo's and their editors want a slice of the readership largesse which Pies' stories deliver, I'm for bringing some in from the cold, and leaving others out.
For me, Michael Gleeson does good work and Jon Ralph is someone I am warming to. Our media isn't highly diverse, but I'm all for giving the scoop and time to those within the fourth estate and various media stables who give a reasonable representation of our club. I'm not suggesting here that there should be no criticism, but rather that we give the worst muck-rakers the short-shrift.
Here's my list of media preferment, which is by no means comprehensive, and is only top and bottom.
Good
1. Martin Flanagan
2. Michael Gleeson
3. Robert Walls
4. Nathan Buckley
5. Emma Quayle
6. Gary Lyon
7. Jake Niall
8. Jon Ralph
9. Trevor Grant
10. Martin Blake
Bad
1. Mike Sheahan
2. Greg Denham
3. Caroline Wilson
4. Time Lane
5. John Harms
6. Sam Lane
7. Patrick Smith
8. Mark Robinson
9. Bruce Matthews
10. Cameron Noakes
At the time, Eduardo - who is well positioned to know as a former journo - pointed out in a Hun article that nothing sells like Collingwood stories, positive or negative. El Pres stated that the most copies of that rag were sold after the Pies premiership in 1990, more than were sold post September 11, 2001. It's pretty clear that to flog papers, there is nothing like talking about Collingwood, and some make their gravy by getting on the anti-Pies bandwagon and flogging our club.
Mike Sheahan earned for me the title of muck-raker, par excellence, after his calls for Didak to be axed. That stupid call created a predictable audience spike, as it was intended to, but also a furore amongst Pie fans.
It's not clear whether the Magpie backlash against Sheahan's article cooled his - or more likely the sport's editors and marketing departments - ardor for Collingwood witch-hunts or whether there has simply been nothing to hang their hat on, but the fact is that indiscretions by players from other clubs have not recieved the same level of vitriol in the Hun. Nor should they.
Hurley and Stokes obviously received attention for their misdemeanors, but you can't help but imagine that if those players had played for the Pies, that there would have been hysterical calls for their discharge. Either Sheahan has mellowed, or he has double standards.
Harry was right to talk about the shrill media circus surrounding Matthew Stokes, articulating a call to help rather than hang players out to dry, but was for that effort derided by Kevin Bartlett and Greg Denham on SEN.
This is already long, so I wont go into depth about Greg Denham's noxious attitudes about Collingwood - which today canvassed shit-canning Mick's detente with umpires, Heath Shaw's umpire touch, and our interchange numbers - but suffice it to say, he is no friend.
I also heard today the pro-mo for the Superfooty booklet, which stated that the pictures were in colour for Pies supporters, who are supposedly remedial.
We all know Collingwood hatred is grist to the media mill, but in that environment, I am a big advocate of picking favourites within the media stable, and leaving d*ckheads frozen out. If journo's and their editors want a slice of the readership largesse which Pies' stories deliver, I'm for bringing some in from the cold, and leaving others out.
For me, Michael Gleeson does good work and Jon Ralph is someone I am warming to. Our media isn't highly diverse, but I'm all for giving the scoop and time to those within the fourth estate and various media stables who give a reasonable representation of our club. I'm not suggesting here that there should be no criticism, but rather that we give the worst muck-rakers the short-shrift.
Here's my list of media preferment, which is by no means comprehensive, and is only top and bottom.
Good
1. Martin Flanagan
2. Michael Gleeson
3. Robert Walls
4. Nathan Buckley
5. Emma Quayle
6. Gary Lyon
7. Jake Niall
8. Jon Ralph
9. Trevor Grant
10. Martin Blake
Bad
1. Mike Sheahan
2. Greg Denham
3. Caroline Wilson
4. Time Lane
5. John Harms
6. Sam Lane
7. Patrick Smith
8. Mark Robinson
9. Bruce Matthews
10. Cameron Noakes
that greg denham has really been giving me the shits the last couple of weeks. Not sure what collingwood has done to him but it's obvious he doesn't like us at all. I'd have Denham in front of Sheehan. Every little chance he gets he has a dig at us it makes for hard listening.
