Daisy in strife

[LP]

If we had taken this tack

"Why is Caro(or The Media if you wish to be less personal) politicising a children's cancer charity fund-raiser, is that really how low we are prepared to go?"

I reckon we would have been cut to pieces for trying to deflect it using 'cancer charity' as a cover.

You see the wider community doesn't regard the Media as biased against Carlton...they just see them as reporting on a struggling club having another issue to deal with with.

I agree we need to be more proactive but this one isn't a battle we would win.

What the wider community think is irrelevant, if you want to build unity and a culture what Carlton people think, the coaches, players, families, staff, sponsors and fans is the really important perspective.

If the publicly exposed order of events had been different in most cases it's usually first in best dressed. I'm not sure you can make the bolded argument retrospectively. In my experience the opening statement sets the agenda and perspective, it's why print and broadcast media structure reports and headlines the way they do, they know most people form opinion on the first line or two of a report and never read or pay attention to the rest!

Have a look at CheatsFC, despite the early claims being clearly exposed as false, to this day it's still the opinion of CheatsFC fans that the players were ignorant of any wrong doing! But that lie by deliberate omission of a fact, set up the structure of support for the players and ultimately stronger support for CheatsFC as a club!