For the sake of us proud Australians, I don't think I need to mention the disaster that was our 2010 World Cup performance. However, just when we thought it couldnt get any worse, a civil war is brewing.
Liam FitzGibbon's article quite simply addresses the recent controversy and potential legal action surrounding arguably Australia's greatest ever football player Harry Kewell and former player now football analyst Robbie Slater's comments that Kewell's recent injury drama's at the world cup led to team critisism and should be an indicator that Kewell has reached the end of his intrnational career. The author Liam FitzGibbon concisely illustrates the history leading up to the altercation which stems from an article written by Slater two weeks earlier. FitzGibbon effectively demonstrates the viewpoint of Harry Kewell through his manager Bernie Mandic by selectively displaying the appropriate quotes in sequence from the most important in the introduction (which highlights the Kewell camp's stance of possible legal action over the issue) to the least important towards the end of the article. In addition to the good structure displayed, FitzGibbon also provides the reader with opinions from the relevent parties involved including Kewell's manager, Robbie Slater and the stance of Football Federation Australia (FFA).
Although the article is fairly straight forward in its portrayal of this issue, it lacks a few integral pieces of information which would further add to the credibility of the story. Firstly, there is no indication about the near future of Harry Kewell's committment to the Australian team despite the comments made by Slater. In addition the author makes no mention of the whether there has been any communication between Kewell and Slater following the incident also there is no mention of whether Kewell has addressed the issue with Football Federation Australia despite them mentioning they do not want to be involved.
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-sport/legal-action-not-ideal-kewells-manager-20100818-12f17.html
The article shows that journalists must be absolutely sure stories are accurate... if it is, then they've nothing to be afraid of...
ReplyDeleteYeh that is true. No doubt Slater was out of line with his comments. In order for him to add some credibility to his claims he should definitely reveal his mysterious source so as to clarify the allegations.
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