Canberra Times - classy...

I have been reported in the CT a few times and the only thing that was truth was my name. That was under editor Michelle Graton who is reputed to be among the best in the job. Nonsense. In fairness to CT, they are no different from any other news provider. Fallible.

Young blokes playing footy? I was suspended twice for fighting when I playing footy. As long as it stays on the field.

Problem here?

I’m making a link with your user name here. Am i wrong to make that connection?

Fights like this make me proud of my public education, my childhood in Western Australia (not rugby country) and my absolute hatrid of all team sports

Everyone is a member of the media today.

There would have been ‘official’ pics being taken by the JRU – and they yet might end up in the Crimes. The other part to the story was the stuff happening in the stands between supporters – friends of ours left due to the language and then throwing of items between the two groups.

It was interesting to note the Referees Manager reckons that the calling off of the match by the official was not on – apparently only the ref can do that once a game has started.

The fight was bad enough for a game to be called off. That’s definitely news.

And having newspapers ask for photos or witnesses isn’t a problem – I’ve seen that question on most Fairfax newsflash stories. I don’t think it’s lazy journalism, it’s clever journalism. People these days are used to instant 24/7 news (ok maybe not in the CT), and if they don’t get that instant photo or story their competitors will.

Skidd Marx said :

A significant schoolboy’s match between Canberra’s two pre-eminent rugby schools was abandoned. That’s news in my opinion.

So should the story then be about an overaction by officials to a common yet undesirable on field incident?
Fights on a footy field are going to happen. Young men, testosterone and all that.

Shock horror – CT bashing! That’s right up there with the “I had to wait 15 minutes for my Decaf Latte this morning” and “Can any one recommend a gentle proctologist?” as RiotAct’s most original thread topic.

A significant schoolboy’s match between Canberra’s two pre-eminent rugby schools was abandoned. That’s news in my opinion.

Yawn,
how is this news?
There were many fights when I played schoolboy rugby and it never made the news. And guess what? no-one stopped these games and at the end everyone shook hands and that was the end of it.

Clown killer: they’re private schools that provide an education influenced by the Catholic faith, which is distinct from schools that are run by the Catholic Education Office and part of the archdiocese.

Small difference, but a difference none the less – unless of course you disagree with Papists in general.

Rawhide Kid No 2 said :

Lazy Journalism. What happened with getting off their collective butts and getting out there to interview wittiness and so on?

Why go to all that trouble when they can sit in a warm office and make some bullshit assumptions that gullible retards (sic CA readers, TT viewers) will swallow ?