The media didn't set the agenda here though, they have refused to use it when it has been shopped around.
The person concerned has attempted to make money off it and once that has been unsuccessful they have spread it around for free.
Once it became public the media doesn't have a choice but to report on it. The best player of the past decade, if not ever, in a video touching a naked woman is a story any way you look at it. If it was Degoey and the media ignored it once it was public this site would melt down with bias accusations. Blaming the media is a cop out in my opinion.
Unfortunately he allowed himself to be filmed in a compromising position and it is a poor look. We can all appreciate the extenuating circumstances but he has done the wrong thing and he is just going to have to cop what comes until it blows over, acknowledge the mistake, apologise and let everyone know it was a long time ag and he has learnt his lesson.
Hmmm…let’s set out some facts and observations.
1. According to many the video has been circulating for quite some time - happy to be corrected.
2. Now a question, timing is a coincidence? The day before we play an elimination final and one in which Dusty returns. Does anyone think that‘s a coincidence? If you do, I’m jealous of the naive innocent world you live in.
3. What relevance has a video from 2015, yes 7 years ago, have today. Perhaps we should ask the AFL executive team whether they ever visited a strip club? Actually let’s ask them to sign a stat dec Just to be sure.
4. Unless the law changed on Wednesday, I don’t recall visiting a strip club or other venue is illegal. I’m sure that the player contracts do not say a player can’t go to a strip club.
5. While going to a strip club may not be for everyone, that’s a person‘s choice - unless it’s illegal it is no one’s business. Just because some fool took a video doesn‘t change that.
6. let’s compare to something that is illegal and is kept private and confidential - when a player tests positive for an ILLICIT substance why is that kept secret even by the media - compare the various whispers involving the AFL ambassador Buddy. Whether they are true or not, they were well known - not one report.
7. Media didn’t have a choice - seriously? See pt 6 - surely you don’t need me to point out many examples where the media have made a conscious choice not to report something which they know is true. I’ll give you an easy football one - Melbourne in 2020 involving Goodwin nearly getting sacked. Not one report until Bartlett spoke out a few months ago.
8. Dusty apologising for what? Doing something which is legal and in a private function. Now if the lady involved has since complained, well that is a completely different thing. Would love to hear her view of things. That’s all that counts: not the view of some 50 year old bloke trying to save his million dollar plus wage.
9. If the AFL wants to properly sit on its high horse, it should have the guts to put it in the player contracts. No strip clubs, no brothels, no drinking in public, no kissing a lady or man in a bar or night club. Wonder how that would sit with AFLPA or workplace laws.
