Hallelujah!! Finally, a positive story about Ben Cousins. And this in the wake of the incident that sees him suspended for a week. (Mostly) well done, Sam Lane.
What a contrast with the despicable and unprofessional “news” report we listened to on SEN a couple of nights ago that all but had Cousins found with cocaine powder dripping from his nose in the wake of the same incident. That report, read by Dennis O’Kane, had us in such a fury that we were a danger to other road users. Whoever wrote that nonsense deserves to be pilloried in the same manner with the same lazy mix of assumption, fiction and stereotyping.
There are sections of the media (most) that seem obsessed with announcing Cousins’ recession into the drug world. Was there a media outlet that didn’t salivate upon hearing that Cousins was among the group said to have transgressed at the Intercontinental? News promotions for the next few hours universally implied some shocking revelation of Cousins’ demise.
Nothing, it seems, entitles him to expect fair treatment. Certainly not the inescapable fact that he was never charged with or convicted of a drug-related offence.
As Cousins is quoted in the Lane piece, “I'm in the situation where I just can't put myself in a situation where I'm around anything that can go wrong. I understand that. If you make your bed you've got to sleep in it. I've got to take responsibility. It is serious.”
Despite penning an overwhelmingly positive piece, Lane couldn’t avoid an oblique dig at Cousins: “the wisdom of having Cousins, a 31-year-old recovering drug addict . . . has again been brought into question. . .”
It’s about time the media, and the blogosphere, got off this man’s back and allowed him to do what he does best.
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Heck even we at Kick2Kick have started to stand up for him :)
:-D
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