Jurnos have gone from reporting the news, to making the news, 60 minutes being a classic example.

Another example was a story run on ACA a few weeks back about the enormous amount of water in bacon.

I was actually interviewed about this and advised that the maximum water you could get into bacon was about 35%, maybe 40% but unlikely.

Well, they didn't like that, so off they went and concocted some great story with a chemist suggesting there was more like 75%. What a load.

Of cause meat is made up of about 75% liquid, so perhaps that's where they were coming from, but if it was, then that is very deceiving.

They simply don't like to let the truth get in the way of a good story.

Spineless Eddie McGuire had set himself up as an obvious and easy target with his cringing PC apology on a previous occasion, where he also set himself up on a pedestal as a PC warrior, having made the pledge.

More or less the same nest of PC vipers came back to bite him again on the behind, in the assurance from his previous performance that he would immediately roll over, capitulate and grovel as he was trained to do.

So yes, he deserves a cold water dunking, regularly.

As rehctub says, the media make the news. However it should be added that political correctness is so widespread, deep and systemic in Australia that many people might only pick up on extreme examples of PC and never realise that they themselves are self-censoring 24/7.

rache:

"Maguire's comment seems different to me and not worth all the fuss."

That's true but it becomes an issue when people try to make a connection between a small matter and a big matter like violence towards women.

Suseonline:

"No, I saw no problems at all in Big Ed's funtime comments with the other big, important men on TV.
In fact, what I would really have liked to see is Eddie drowning in that icy pool he plopped into 'for charity' the other day.
Now THAT really would have been humerous and newsworthy!"

You did see a problem with it otherwise you wouldn't need to make a comment about it - you would just ignore it.

hopefully at the next afl game someone will hold up a sign saying 'drwon eddie in an ice bath'. Watch the outrage. I think not.

Violence against women is a widespread, severe
problem which as we can see from the recent barrage of
TV adds - needs to be addressed. It would help
Mr McGuire's image if he instead would donate the $50,000 he
offered for the demise of Caroline Wilson -
to help address the problem
of "violence against women."
Now that would not be paying lip-service to the problem, or
a joke, but meaningful action of "putting
his money where his mouth is."

Foxy:

Why should he donate money to the cause of violence towards women more than any other cause?

Are you suggesting that he should do it to show he is against violence towards women? Why wouldn't he be against violence toward women? What has he done to suggest that he is not against it?

He has ridiculed a journalist who just happens to be a woman. Should she be given special care simply because she is a woman? Had he ridiculed a male journalist would you suggest that he donate money to a violence towards men cause?

When women try and make a connection between a ridicule of a journalist who happens to be female and violence towards women then they undermine the integrity of the whole movement which is seeking to stop men's violence toward women. You can cry wolf once too often and when real violence takes place the woman will unlikely be believed. If you think he should pay that kind of money as 'punishment' for a ridicule then you have a warped sense of values.