GETTING CONVICTIONS: 12 APRIL 2015
- In a major Freudian slip, News Limited’s Rebecca Wilson captured the scandalous part her friends from the Age played in the Essendon Saga.
- Rebecca Wilson said she felt sorry for Caroline Wilson and Baker and Mackenzie because “they had worked so hard to get a conviction”
- I have read the press council, Fairfax and News codes over and over. I can’t fathom where the comment on Sydney radio by News Limited’s Rebecca Wilson fits in.
- Having sent you 50 plus scoops, which finished in the bin, I obviously know nothing about the newspaper world. In my ignorance, I didn’t think “getting convictions” was part of the job description of proper journalists! Can anyone please enlighten me as to when getting convictions became Kosher and was part of your codes?
- My only guess was getting convictions appeared in the small print of “How to win a Walkley”, or perhaps, it was an instruction from the AFL to the branch office in return for leaks. I was aware Carowhine Wilson received more leaks than the men’s toilets at the MCG on a hot Boxing Day Ashes Test, so, perhaps that is the answer.
Bruce Francis