This in The Age this morning:
ESSENDON is content with the progress it is making in contract talks with Michael Hurley, but it appears that the club does not want the star forward talking to the public about his future.
A media contingent at yesterday's NAB Cup launch expected to speak to the 21-year-old, who was a guest at the function held at his old club, the Macleod Junior Football Club.
Instead, the Bombers sent football manager Paul Hamilton at the last minute to field questions, most of which centred on Hurley's future beyond 2012.
As with reporting on the Federal political scene in recent years, it seems sports journalists have become fixated on sensation and controversy, often of their own making, to the exclusion of simply reporting.
Last year it was Tom Scully, every bloody week!!! Is it to be Michael Hurley this year? Can’t you vultures in the media simply wait until an announcement is made? Why do you have to speculate each and every week? You’re our conduit into the outskirts of the inner sanctums. Don’t spoil it by ignoring what there is to report in favour of writing speculative crap about your hobby horse topic. The football public deserve better than that from you.
Perhaps at the function mentioned in The Age’s story, the media contingent could have asked some questions about the pre-season competition? That is, after all, what the function was about. And then you have the hide to complain when Essendon protect their young star from the sort of bullying, pestering behaviour that seems to pass for journalism these days. Un-[expletive]-believable.
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