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Oval Ball: I know I shouldn't post excerpts from Crikey's newsletter verbatim, but I'll do it with a link to their subscription page (seriously, I highly recommend it).
They've shed some light on the leaked AFL player names (you know, the ones who tested positive twice). Anyone here heard any further on this?
How the names of three drug-taking AFL players got outNow, to make this post completely lazy, some quick links:
By Anthony Stavrinos
There's been quite a kerfuffle over the story set to run in The Smage last week about three AFL players who had twice tested positive for use of illicit recreational substances.
A key part of the story by Jacqueline Magnay – the names of the three players – had to be removed after the AFL took out an injunction against Fairfax and the rest of the media, to keep the trio's identities hush hush.
The saga will return to Victoria's Supreme Court on Wednesday, but while the blanket ban on the players' names is in force, a cock-up has seen the players' names revealed to clients of media monitoring company Media Monitors.
Media Monitors has an arrangement with Fairfax in which it is sent a copy of the electronic page proofs from its newspapers at the same time as they are sent to the publisher's printing facilities. That feeds into an automated system which delivers the relevant information to clients – before the paper has even been printed.
So when the injunction was enforced on Thursday evening, the page proofs had already been sent to the company before last minute alterations to the AFL story.
Understandably reluctant to draw attention to the names it has fought so hard to remove from public circulation, the AFL was guarded in its comments. "There was feed on our media monitoring service, it was from a newspaper and it was removed,” a spokeswoman told Crikey.
Senior deputy editor of The Age, Paul Ramadge wanted to make it clear the unfortunate mistake had nothing to do with his paper. “My understanding is that Media Monitors got access to a version of the story off a Sydney Morning Herald page, not an Age page”, he told Crikey. “The story did not make any editions of The Age.”
Crikey has the players' names, but we can't publish them – the Supreme Court injunction covers all media.
- "Richo can't rely on reputation". Doesn't he have a reputation as a useless, fat pr*ck?
- The Swans are "the worst titleholder since Collingwood in 1990". Love it.
- Same old same old, with concern over West Coast's firepower. This is the team that was the competition's 3rd highest scorer last season, right?
- Richie Vandenburg knows his team is sh*t, but this quote concerns me
"We've got a number of goals that we've put in place for the season and none of those revolve around where we finish on the ladder"
What's so wrong with having a goal to win some bloody matches? - TV: Plenty more Simpsons, King of the Hill, and Futurama to come. Excellent news.
- SBS has signed up the rights to World Cups 2010 and 2014. Whilst looking for details on that, I also stumbled across SBS' upcoming soccer reality show, Nerds FC. Interesting...
- Hilarious news out of the US, with rumours abounding that everyone's favourite couch-jumper refusing to promote his new vehicle if Comedy Central airs the South Park episode pulling the p*ss out of Scientology. Read the article just for Parker and Stone's press release.
- Culture: Finally, everyone who knows me has heard me whinge at one stage about how sanitised little old Perth is. If you have 10 mins, read The Age's article celebrating the revamping of liquor licensing 10 years ago that made the city what it is today - my favourite (no doubt soon to be displaced by any number of the cities soon to be visited on the upcoming world trip).
'Til next time... (and if I haven't told you about the Final 8 Tipping Contest, comment me).
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