AFL Players and The Media
Such is the obsession, particularly with that footballer's off-field behaviour is as highly scrutinized as their on field behaviour. Footballers are held by many in Australia to be role models.
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Famous quotes containing the words players and/or media:
“Will you see the players well bestowed? Do you hear, let them
be well used, for they are the abstracts and brief chronicles of the time. After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The media no longer ask those who know something ... to share that knowledge with the public. Instead they ask those who know nothing to represent the ignorance of the public and, in so doing, to legitimate it.”
—Serge Daney (1944–1992)