Essendon saga exposes big flaws in footy media
As I write, the football world awaits the results of the charges levelled against 34 current and former Essendon players and “one former Essendon employee” in what has become known as “the Essendon supplements scandal”. However, whichever way the worm turns, the verdict is unlikely to change anybody’s mind. If it’s “guilty”, those who have argued for the innocence of the accused will doubtless charge that the process is flawed. That it hasn’t been a case proven “beyond a reasonable doubt”, and that...