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The death rattle of Australia’s legacy media is on show for all this week, as the same usual morons involved in sports journalism ambulance-chasing, return to their favourite past time of humiliating already emotionally battered athletes in an effort to generate interest in their profession.
This comes after a fairly boring year of football in both the AFL and NRL, after both winter codes were overshadowed greatly by the Matildas, who had a dream run playing ‘internationally’ – a concept not widely associated with our lacklustre domestic sports media.
The fact that the Matildas success is now going to be followed up by the unavoidable excitement of a Rugby World Cup is also something that only the cruelest rumour-mongering and race-baiting can compete with.
In the world of NRL media, a player strike also deprived these vultures from any off-field soap operas for the best part of the season, meaning they now need to cause as much personal hurt to their firebrand athletes as possible.
And with the charismatic Panthers star Jarome Luai out with injury, the NRL journos are now pivoting from Polynesian showpony narratives to Aboriginal sook narratives.
After trying his best to keep his head low in between injury and youth work, Souths fullback Latrell Mitchell once again finds himself the punching bag for Australian NRL journos, who say whatever they like without any accountability, in an effort to provoke a proud young Aboriginal athlete and stir up racist commentary from the Australian public.
This comes after the pointless leaking off vitriolic comments from Clive Churchill’s son Rodney, a man who appears to have done not much with his life other than present medals in his fathers name, who ridiculed the fullback after the Rabbitohs’ loss to the Eels in May.
This absolutely nobody, who happens to be the son of a great, berated Mitchell in a text message exchange with chairman Nick Pappas – as reported by Peter Costello’s increasingly irrelevant Nine Newspapers.
This week, grown men are sitting on TV panels continuously speculating about further drama that could centre around the multiple premiership winning 26-year-old and his club, not even a week after the entire side played with black armbands in tribute to a former teammate.
And still no mention of Paul Kent.
