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d'ohTopic: big media
The timing of Nick D'Arcy fate today is highly related to the front pagers even earlier today, as well as tv news coverage the night before about a completely unrelated criminal matter in NSW. Cie la vie. It might have been the same result for alleged 'bad boy' D'Arcy anyway, just not today?:
John Coates of the Australian Olympic Committee has just dropped D'Arcy from the Olympic Team, via live broadcast on ABC radio at 10.30 am roughly 18 April 08 AustEast standard time, while criminal charge is pending against him, along the lines of 'will or is likely to bring the Olympics into disrepute' or words to that effect. Due natural justice submission process (in a legal sense) and appeal rights duly acknowledged
The Olympic Inc big business/politics media management strategy is well understood as per the "taking out the trash" episode on West Wing tv series also discussed here:
"The West Wing" Take Out the Trash Day (2000)
Usually on a Friday in that fiction, but also for real today as above.
