Craig Hutchison

Yeah, but also they'll also throw barbs back the other way.

Yeah, they'll throw smoke.

They'll put smoke on stories.

Which are often good stories and you've got an obligation to run them.

Yeah.

And then sometimes I think you wake up stuck in that opinion you can't get out of.

That's true.

Sometimes you wake up and you've done six stories that are one way, the other side's taken offense at you and you're now part of the punch on.

And then someone who's, who's put his or her neck on the line with a quote that they've given you is then under siege and under fire.

They're looking at you to defend them.

And you might have a relationship with that person.

Look, here's another part of this.

I don't think there's a grand design on this thing sometimes.

No, there's not.

But we're dealing with the most serious allegations.

arguably ever played out in Australian media when it comes to this case, isn't it?

I mean, the Essendon drug saga, it was one of the biggest stories ever in the AFL world.

But ultimately, in the scale of the world, it was well down the rung.

Here's another part of reference here.

Masters is by turns scathing, resigned and finally dismissive of the treatment he and McKenzie received, particularly from News Corp outlets.