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My guess is that you are wrong.To the top wrote:Apart from Roo, who went to Carlisle and moved off, no St Kilda player was that close - and if as far away as they were did they hear something that had them confront the retreating Number 3 OR did they see something?
My guess is they SAW something.
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I was involved with the press fairly regularly over the years, even went to one guy's funeral, but I can't ever remember an article, where I had full knowledge of the facts, being published without at least one factual error.White Winmar wrote:Unfortunately, LL, it is an all too common occurrence. I've had it happen to me, too. I remember a reporter in Geelong making up several replies I supposedly made to questions about a murder down there. Sheer fantasy. I refused to divulge details as the investigation was at a very delicate stage. She gave me a gobfull, and then printed the fabrication. Got me in trouble, but she eventually "resigned". Seems she had form. Most of them "fill in the holes" with terms like, "sources close to...." , " a friend who wishes to remain anonymous", and my favourite, just sticking the word allegedly in front of everything, which they treat as a licence to print whatever they want. Interesting creatures. No wonder in all the credibility surveys they are consistently at the bottom with politicians, car sellers, real estate agents etc.Linton Lodger wrote:You make a valid point here. I know from personal experience that journalists make things up if you refuse to talk to them. You'd be amazed at how feral a journo gets if you refuse to talk to them. I had a journo actually threaten to make things up (and he did) because I refused to give him my phone number.mullet wrote:Same guy who said Dempter had cracked the sads. Turned out his career was over because of bravery. His only answer, it was clubs fault for not telling him. WankerWhite Winmar wrote:Unbelievably, this has somehow been turned into an incident in which the saints are in the wrong. According to the halfwit rumourmonger, Barrett, it was all about the saints players mercilessly sledging Murphy until he snapped. He was supposedly so distressed after the game that "people who knew him had never seen him so disturbed." No mention of why Carlisle was laying on the ground clutching his orchestra stalls, when Murphy either sledged, or worse still, allegedly spat on him. Usual Barrett standard. No facts, just lots of unnamed sources, made up speculation and an inability to get the real story. And his idiot friend, Gaddy Lyon, calls him, "The best in the business". Well, he would say that. He gets paid to say it. In this so-called industry, maybe he is. They set the bar very low for the AFL media.