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Advertising and editorial – traditionally uneasy bedfellows – are having uninhibited sex at the moment. Instead of protesting, we media sluts have joined the orgy, legs in the air like frozen chooks (from Steggles, of course – Steggles for quality).
How long before we see newspaper stories headlined, “Tony Abbott surges ahead in the polls” (sponsored by Nutri-Grain – Iron Man Food).
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Ten years ago I had the good fortune of sitting next to Paul “The Chief” Harragon, hardman for the Newcastle Knights rugby league team
We shared a generally enjoyable conversation until discussions turned to a player who had become the media focus for – what else – excessive drinking.
Harragon was genuinely staggered that the drinking exploits of a league star would make tabloid fodder.
“If a plumber goes out and has a few to many,” he said, “no-one thinks of writing that up in a newspaper.”
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