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The perils of staying on message

by Dylan Malloch

24 Sep 05:40am

Filed under: Communication, Media Management, Spin

47 comments

I was catching up with a mate for a drink on Friday who I hadn’t seen in quite some time.

Unreal, banana peel. Cartoon: Warren Brown.

We’re good friends, we actually go way back, but there’s always been one aspect of his personality that drives me a little insane. Whenever I see him, he persistently quotes Eddie Murphy’s Delirious stand up show.

He can’t stop. It’s impossible. If doctors were to examine him, I’m 74 per cent certain they’d uncover some sort of degenerative disease that prevents him from doing anything except quote Eddie Murphy.

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Reg says:

11:50am | 25/09/10

Well since the moderator is obviously a Liberal supporter, I’ll try again. Zeta if you ask idiot questions you would be very fortunate indeed, NOT to be treated as an idiot. I repeat, a journalist who asks what the prime Minister had for breakfast or worse, “how do you feel”… Read more »
Sydney says:

10:39am | 25/09/10

Bonaroo I don’t know where you’re from but I moved to Sydney from country Queensland 30 years ago and this is how Sydney people behave. They are groomed for standard replies and work hard at disclosing as little as possible on the assumption that information withheld, is power. This makes… Read more »

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