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Playing Scrooge on Eddie

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There’s a pretty harsh satirical article today by Daily Telegraph journo Fiona Connolly which parodies Nine’s troubled year to the concept of the twelve days of xmas.

“On the fourth day of Christmas Eddie gave to Gyng: four Bert Newton failures, three high-profile bonings, two unfair dismissals and a lemon of a TV network,” she jokes.

And on it goes.

“On the seventh day of Christmas Gyng turned to Ed and said: “You’re a f. . .ing idiot and Westacott is too. Look what you’ve left me: six axed TV shows, five golden handshakes, four Bert Newton failures, three high-profile bonings, two unfair dismissals and a lemon of a TV network.”

Sure, we all know it wasn’t the best year for Ed or Nine. But unless the article is an annual retrospective (in which case it leaves out a whole lot of other setbacks) then it feels a pretty Scrooge-like. McGuire walked away from the CEO role in May, that was the time to have pot-shot, surely?

Hopefully The Daily Telegraph will play fair and write up other articles that highlight some of the other networks blunders too?

And finally, it wasn’t Eddie who “boned the ham” (or even the xmas hampers), it was PBL Media boss Ian Law who, doubtless under instruction from new owners CVC, trimmed the fat by telling everyone they were a legacy of the Packer era.

Source: Daily Telegraph

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  2. Why all this sticking up for eddie??
    Sure he hasnt been CEO for a whole 6 months but his influence on the channel is clear as day. The channel is looking for the home run, There not trying to establish any reliability or consistency, the shows are being thrown at them and there swinging wildly and cant seem to get a hit.
    Even to the point were veiwers see an advert for a new series and dont bother to tune in because the show probably wont be there next week.
    Its like Channel Nine is solely set up to beat Channel Seven and thats it. Reminds me of the old Wrestling war of the late 90’s WCW was set up solely to beat WWE, they did for a little while but run the show so poorly and lost the respect of so many people they went bankrupt and were run out of buisness.
    Channel Nine?? The only way to beat seven is to forget about seven. Do your best to make a great channel with a solid line up and realize it wont happen in a matter of weeks.
    Oh!! And getting your moral values out of the 70’s might be a good thing too. (women are no longer “shielas and men are no longer “blokes”)

  3. It was meant to be funny, you know, funny Ha Ha! I thought it was… why does it have to be about “Sydney vs. Eddie” or “a deep hatred for Eddie?” It was a ‘satarical’ piece after all!

  4. Not surprising as there’s a deep hatred for Eddie/Nine in some quarters. The old tall poppy syndrome. As the saying goes,hatred leads to anger & anger leads to suffering.

  5. Another typical Sydney vs Eddie rant. I’m no Eddie fan but it is so unfair for them to point the sole blame of Nine’s problems onto Eddie – a lot of Nine’s problems were evident before Eddie took on the CEO job or were not to do with Eddie in the first place – but then again does anyone really expect balanced and fair reporting from the Daily Tele? At least having a go at Eddie means a week where they don’t have to find a celebrity to bring out of the closet

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