Join Craig Hutchison and Damian Barrett for Ep 30.

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SHOW NOTES

00.0 – Athletes and media interviews – are sportspeople getting better at doing media?

2.30 – Job cuts at the AFL. How was Gillon’s announcement taken yesterday?

6.00 – Darren Birch – head of AFL Media will leave the business later this year. Huge praise regarding his recent work in the hub situation / COVID crisis.

7.45 – Business projections for 2021. Is next year looking grim too? Discussion of the Victorian Government’s push to extend the State of Emergency for another 12 months if needed. Does Daniel Andrews need to apologise for the mistakes his government has made?

12.30 – Was Damo a last-minute invite to head to the Hub? Was it Hutchy’s fault for mentioning Damo had been left behind on the show last week? Damo is getting on the plane on September 1st.

15.30 – Discussion of David Schwartz’s comments about Hutchy and SEN on the Sacked podcast recently. The podcast is a great piece of journalism – but what’s in for the subjects? Good example of focusing on the ‘click bait’ angle of a story but not following other obvious lines of questioning.

23.00 – Coach sackings. Discussion of the difference between how differently a coach sacking is perceived in the USA compared to Australia – especially in AFL. Does Private. V Public ownership influence this?

28.30 - The Bronco’s Coach Climb On - re Anthony Siebold. Forensic investigations into social media accounts will be very interesting.

30.30 – The calling out of social media trolls and online abusers. Is publicising the issue making it worse?

33.00 – Miranda Devine being sued for defamation – but her employer says the tweets were ‘private’ and unrelated to material it publishes.

39.00 – Question of the Week for Social Status was from Lenny Phillips via Twitter; "Will the general positive response to teams like Gold Coast, St Kilda etc getting national prime time games finally stop the "big 4" getting disproportionate coverage in these games and create a more equitable level of exposure?"

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