Bias commentary was at the centre of an alarming journo stoush involving Channel 7’s newshound Tom Browne.
The confrontation between Browne and Marc McGowan, from the Age, happened in the Carlton changerooms after the Good Friday clash against North Melbourne.
Bystanders were shocked when Browne approached McGowan over tweets he’d posted regarding Seven’s commentary of the previous night’s Brisbane-Collingwood game.
In particular he’d taken aim at Seven’s No. 1 caller ex-Magpie Brian Taylor.
“Can’t we just watch the game without BT telling us every second minute how close Collingwood is to getting back into this?!” McGowan tweeted.
While we’re sure BT can fight his own battles, it certainly fired up Browne who delivered a Mick Malthouse-type spray.
Eavesdroppers heard words like “bogan” and “idiot” with something along the lines of “who are you?” even thrown in.
-employed by Channel 7 so I’ll defend BT who also works for 7 for his bias towards Kkkollingwood
-that’s right Tom’s dad is also president of the Kkkollingwood clan
The most impressive thing about that is that Tom Browne managed to put a coherent sentence together. Or maybe he didn’t, since he got called a fool in response.
Picking up the live vs studio debate, it’s got nothing to do with getting the commentators to the grounds. It’s the cost of having and staffing a studio at each venue that stops it from happening. There are 11 main venues these days (WA, SA, Vic x 2, TAS x2, NSW x 2, Canberra, QLD x 2) plus the Darwin’s and Cairbs etc.To have a TV studio set up at each and the 10-20 people to run it would cost a fortune.
I wouldn’t be surprised if MMM is calling it from their studio in south Melbourne off TV too. You don’t need to be in qld to rattle off their nonsense about McDonald’s scoreboards and Holden stats with the captain snooze best on ground.
I wonder if the likes of Scot Palmer, Alf Brown & Greg Hobbs were as egotistical about their standing in the VFL/AFL media in their heyday and resorting to petty verbal disagreements with other journalists.