What's In The Media ~ Other Than Footy

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From today's Tele -

A monumental blow up erupted at Triple M’s Sydney radio studio with anchor Anthony Maroon storming off the show.
Respected broadcaster Maroon took umbrage when sports journalist James Hooper jokingly questioned the anchor over cash jobs and the Australian Tax Office.

Gordon Tallis and Paul Kent were also in the studio.

“Mate I don’t think it is funny, it has already caused me a lot of grief,” Maroon said as the awkward exchange played out on air on Sunday. “I am not putting up with it anymore. I don’t like it. I have asked many many times for it to stop. I am saying here and now, I am not even joking … I tell you what, I will leave you guys with it okay.”

Kent took over anchoring the show for the remaining hour before the Dragons v Tigers game at the weekend.


Earlier, Maroon warned his co-hosts that he would share stories about them that they don’t want made public if they continued to push the issue. As they continued, he detailed that Hooper is unable to drive after losing his licence and made reference to Tallis.

Hooper said: “Hang on a minute, there is some breaking news here, I just got a text message … ‘hello this is the ATO, the Australian Tax Office, we have an inquiry’.”

Maroon responded: “I don’t have a problem with the ATO, I welcome it mate but I am just wondering when are you going to be back on the road Hoops?”

Hooper then said: “Why are you jumping around like a cat on a hot tin roof?”

The incident escalated dramatically from there.

“I am fed up with it,” Maroon said. “I have asked you on air, I have asked you off air, I have asked you to stop and now I have told you I am hitting back. If I have got to cop it every week for five years, lets have it out on air. This is absolute bull***. We might get a walkout.”


Maroon said he had raised the issue with management but had heard “crickets”.

“Lets keep going boys because when it comes to you three, I live a very boring life,” Maroon said. “I am blowing up because I am sick to death of it. Now I have known for three years you have not had a licence and I have not said anything on air. I have warned you 15 times, I don’t like this. I have been on air for 32 years, I am a professional. This particular issue I have probably raised on air and off air I don’t know 100 times. I have even sent emails to the powers that be … nothing. It never stops.”

Hooper again pushed, justifying the humour.

“You know the more you ask us to stop it, the funnier it gets,” Hooper mused.

Confidential has reached out to Triple M representatives and Maroon for comment.

2GB mornings host Ray Hadley played the exchange on his show today, criticising Triple M management at Southern Cross Austereo for not intervening sooner.

“He (Maroon) says in the audio he has been to management and they have done nothing,” Hadley told listeners. “Knowing what I know of Southern Cross management I am not at all surprised, they are as weak as water. There is no leadership there and there should be.”

Describing the situation as distressing and “embarrassing”, Hadley added: “What happened on Sunday should not have happened.


https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/e...w/news-story/85e6fcb83ef2859d30cef4a8538beb51
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I'd be keen to hear all the other yarns 👍🤣
 
KH1988 said:
From today's Tele -

A monumental blow up erupted at Triple M’s Sydney radio studio with anchor Anthony Maroon storming off the show.
Respected broadcaster Maroon took umbrage when sports journalist James Hooper jokingly questioned the anchor over cash jobs and the Australian Tax Office.

Gordon Tallis and Paul Kent were also in the studio.

“Mate I don’t think it is funny, it has already caused me a lot of grief,” Maroon said as the awkward exchange played out on air on Sunday. “I am not putting up with it anymore. I don’t like it. I have asked many many times for it to stop. I am saying here and now, I am not even joking … I tell you what, I will leave you guys with it okay.”

Kent took over anchoring the show for the remaining hour before the Dragons v Tigers game at the weekend.


Earlier, Maroon warned his co-hosts that he would share stories about them that they don’t want made public if they continued to push the issue. As they continued, he detailed that Hooper is unable to drive after losing his licence and made reference to Tallis.

Hooper said: “Hang on a minute, there is some breaking news here, I just got a text message … ‘hello this is the ATO, the Australian Tax Office, we have an inquiry’.”

Maroon responded: “I don’t have a problem with the ATO, I welcome it mate but I am just wondering when are you going to be back on the road Hoops?”

Hooper then said: “Why are you jumping around like a cat on a hot tin roof?”

The incident escalated dramatically from there.

“I am fed up with it,” Maroon said. “I have asked you on air, I have asked you off air, I have asked you to stop and now I have told you I am hitting back. If I have got to cop it every week for five years, lets have it out on air. This is absolute bull***. We might get a walkout.”


Maroon said he had raised the issue with management but had heard “crickets”.

“Lets keep going boys because when it comes to you three, I live a very boring life,” Maroon said. “I am blowing up because I am sick to death of it. Now I have known for three years you have not had a licence and I have not said anything on air. I have warned you 15 times, I don’t like this. I have been on air for 32 years, I am a professional. This particular issue I have probably raised on air and off air I don’t know 100 times. I have even sent emails to the powers that be … nothing. It never stops.”

Hooper again pushed, justifying the humour.

“You know the more you ask us to stop it, the funnier it gets,” Hooper mused.

Confidential has reached out to Triple M representatives and Maroon for comment.

2GB mornings host Ray Hadley played the exchange on his show today, criticising Triple M management at Southern Cross Austereo for not intervening sooner.

“He (Maroon) says in the audio he has been to management and they have done nothing,” Hadley told listeners. “Knowing what I know of Southern Cross management I am not at all surprised, they are as weak as water. There is no leadership there and there should be.”

Describing the situation as distressing and “embarrassing”, Hadley added: “What happened on Sunday should not have happened.


https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/e...w/news-story/85e6fcb83ef2859d30cef4a8538beb51
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luckily for them nobody actually listens to Triple M
 
Demps said:

This the halfwit that let the flare off during our game.
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HANDHELD FLARES ARE FOR OUTDOOR EMERGENCY SIGNALING ONLY. THESE ARE NOT TOYS. MISUSE CAN RESULT IN DEATH/SERIOUS INJURY.
HANDHELD FLARES PRODUCE HOT FLAME AND/OR DENSE SMOKE THAT CAN CAUSE SEVERE INJURIES TO FACE AND/OR PERMANENT LOSS OF EYE SIGHT.
DO NOT BREATHE IN SMOKE OR FUMES AS IT CAN RESULT IN RESPIRATORY FAILURE.
Maybe someone should have stuck this flare up his coit for endangering players and officials.
The fact is, if you operate these flares in accordance to their instructions they are safe, but the way he was waving it around close to players raises doubt and concerns for peoples welfare.
It also states to keep them away from children....so why was he holding one.
His sentence was too light and shouldn't have been reduced IMO.
If he did permanently injure someone there would have been an uproar and a hefty penalty.
I support people with concerns for our planet and other worthy causes but doing it this way does not help the planet.
Thoughts......
 
Cobarcats said:
HANDHELD FLARES ARE FOR OUTDOOR EMERGENCY SIGNALING ONLY. THESE ARE NOT TOYS. MISUSE CAN RESULT IN DEATH/SERIOUS INJURY.
HANDHELD FLARES PRODUCE HOT FLAME AND/OR DENSE SMOKE THAT CAN CAUSE SEVERE INJURIES TO FACE AND/OR PERMANENT LOSS OF EYE SIGHT.
DO NOT BREATHE IN SMOKE OR FUMES AS IT CAN RESULT IN RESPIRATORY FAILURE.
Maybe someone should have stuck this flare up his coit for endangering players and officials.
The fact is, if you operate these flares in accordance to their instructions they are safe, but the way he was waving it around close to players raises doubt and concerns for peoples welfare.
It also states to keep them away from children....so why was he holding one.
His sentence was too light and shouldn't have been reduced IMO.
If he did permanently injure someone there would have been an uproar and a hefty penalty.
I support people with concerns for our planet and other worthy causes but doing it this way does not help the planet.
Thoughts......
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His heart is in the right place however his brain is around 3 feet lower than it should be (imperial measurements for the benefit of us old buggers)
 
jadtiger said:
His heart is in the right place however his brain is around 3 feet lower than it should be (imperial measurements for the benefit of us old buggers)
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Good thing for him it wasn't in metric otherwise he would have burnt his ears and what's left inbetween 🤪
 
Cobarcats said:
HANDHELD FLARES ARE FOR OUTDOOR EMERGENCY SIGNALING ONLY. THESE ARE NOT TOYS. MISUSE CAN RESULT IN DEATH/SERIOUS INJURY.
HANDHELD FLARES PRODUCE HOT FLAME AND/OR DENSE SMOKE THAT CAN CAUSE SEVERE INJURIES TO FACE AND/OR PERMANENT LOSS OF EYE SIGHT.
DO NOT BREATHE IN SMOKE OR FUMES AS IT CAN RESULT IN RESPIRATORY FAILURE.
Maybe someone should have stuck this flare up his coit for endangering players and officials.
The fact is, if you operate these flares in accordance to their instructions they are safe, but the way he was waving it around close to players raises doubt and concerns for peoples welfare.
It also states to keep them away from children....so why was he holding one.
His sentence was too light and shouldn't have been reduced IMO.
If he did permanently injure someone there would have been an uproar and a hefty penalty.
I support people with concerns for our planet and other worthy causes but doing it this way does not help the planet.
Thoughts......
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He should be drowned in a bucket of his own urine
 
Cobarcats said:
I'd be keen to hear all the other yarns 👍🤣
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Maroon picks up Hooper and takes him to the studio, alluded that Hooper must have been driving unlicensed and got done ? Was saying Kent was seen outside of a pub at 3am not in a good state. I think it was mentioned on here that he likes to dabble in pokies ?

But listening to it yesterday Hooper, Kent and Tallis were like 3 bullies who would not stop, I did feel for Maroon.
 
Cobarcats said:
Just thought it would be good to start a topic on Media finds that you've found interesting.

This morning I was reading a Foxsports article which read;
“Tigers may have found answer to $1.7m mystery. It could end a decade of disaster”
I thought to myself, this will be a good read.
I opened up the article only to find Mark Geyer and Benny Elias dribble.
In an nutshell, after a full page of reading all I got from it was:
Sheens to unlock Luke Brooks.
That was it really.
I mean are you journos going to get paid for this...seriously.
Members of this forum could have done better.
For a start, it appears they have cut and pasted snippets from repetitive articles written by other out of ideas journos.
Secondly if you had to write a scoop on the tigers, wouldn't you go to their training sessions, interview someone and do some research.
Too many times have I read similar articles to find basically second hand rubbish!
I mean this when I say 'I look forward to reading the comments of members on this forum every day'
Sometimes like minded people will find something interesting that I would normally miss.
Love live the forum 👍
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Correct, a number of forumers can write better than 99.99% of the sport "journalists!
The old: if you cannot write about anything else, you will write about sports. Harsh but fair. 😎
 
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