Another triumph for journalism

[ManDee 7,077]

That could be more to the point, except that they want to keep playing and it might be a bit difficult to sue Essendon and expect the club to keep contracting them.

The players have time to sue the EFC. I would expect after the end of their playing careers a few will come out slugging. EFC will have no records to show that the program could not cause a future problem to the players. Hoist on their own petard.

[Sir Why You Little 34,490]

Don't think you understand.

The Hun has printed a part of an Interim Report that was supposed to be confidential.

The Hun has not said these players are guilty of anything. Being found "not guilty" is irrelevant.

i understand it was from the interim report.

If the players are guilty it won't matter. They are gone. But if any are proved not guilty the HUN will have a risk on their hands.

[Chook 14,502]

The players have time to sue the EFC. I would expect after the end of their playing careers a few will come out slugging. EFC will have no records to show that the program could not cause a future problem to the players. Hoist on their own petard.

Petard plays for Richmond.

[ManDee 7,077]

Petard plays for Richmond.

I was waiting for that.

But does he really? Had such an exciting start, I thought he was our next superstar.

[Whispering_Jack 27,978]

Couldn't agree more with Caro on this one - Stephen Dank booking to speak at charity lunch a big blunder

[Sir Why You Little 34,490]

I want to hear what he has to say. Pity Brian Taylor is the clown asking the questions

[MikeyJ 60]

You're free to disagree, this is an opinion forum. I do think you are still missing my point though. What irks me is the implied moral high ground when she states that SHE won't name the players, but tells us exactly where to find those names anyway. It seems hypocritical to me. Why not simply stick to her guns and say "we won't name them"?

To answer your question, no, I don't think other journalists are wrong to name a competing paper that named the players if they did so. Unless they too, like Caro, attempted to rise above that competitor in some sort of bid for moral and journalistic superiority. This is what sticks my craw.

She was singled out because I read The Age and hers was the article discussing the issue. If I had read another paper and that author had made the same comments I would have posted the same criticism.

Edit: I actually studied journalism at Monash University, so yes I do feel I know what poor journalism is. In fact my course in journalism ethics was taught by a writer from The Age. This doesn't make me an expert, but it does make me sensitive to these issues when they arise.

You still don't get it. Every report on this matter identified News Corp papers, or the Herald Sun specifically, as the source of the names. AFAIK, no other media organisation has identified the players.

That means, either explicitly or implicitly, every media organisation has made the decision NOT to name the players and in effect, explicitly or implicitly take a morally superior position to the Herald Sun. By your reasoning, that opens them up to "poor journalism" as you see it. Yet Caroline Wilson is the only one you're taking a shot at. Baffling.

You're right, you're certainly no expert in the field.

Don't get me wrong - there is huge room for debate as to the Herald Sun's position and whether it was the right one. That's I don't get why your first reaction to the story was to 'bash' a journalist whose only sin in this instance was to write unfavourably about the Demons in the past.

Edited March 8, 2014 by MikeyJ

[Rolling Stone 107]

The fact that ASADA received a smashing from the media over the Herald Sun is consistent with one of the arguments that the names were leaked to embarrass or discredit ASADA's investigation.

Now, who on earth would want to do that?