Posted 01 June 2010 - 05:58 PM
I agree lets get back on the footy and unfortunately it has now evolved into this Aker saga.
Small issues are being turned into Watergate like dramas, because their aren't any big scandals these days in football, so the little ones that are there, are blown up like a rubber spiderman. There is so much saturation coverage of football, so the football media need to keep a step ahead of their football media competition.
I had a gutful of the Milne/Malthouse non-issue that occupied column issues, then they won't let go of the Ablett junior 'will he stay or will he go' soap opera.
Now it is the AKER tale.
If all the ruckus is about Aker allegedly lying and they have to come down hard on him for that- as the AFL did with Malthouse, then it needs to apply across the board, not just to sportstars.
I want all politicians to receive the same treatment every time they lie, as the vitriol that sportsmen and sportswoman have to endure over piddly little molehills that end up as big as Mount Everest . Ditto for car salesmen, real estate agents, journalists, solicitors etc etc.
Greg Baum wrote another good article that appeared in todays AGE newspaper. It was about this current Aker 'saga.' He (Greg Baum) is the best football writer going around- no garbage, no sensationalism, just well reasoned comments without bias, innuendos and muck raking. He should be on the radio as well as the print media.
