TripleM boss says Eddie McGuire’s comments ‘not acceptable’ but is not taking disciplinary action
The head of the TripleM network Mike Fitzpatrick has said he will not take disciplinary action against star Melbourne breakfast host Eddie McGuire after he made on-air comments about drowning The Age sports journalist Caroline Wilson.
This morning TripleM breakfast host Eddie McGuire, who is also the president of Collingwood football club, gave a reluctant apology on-air after a furore over the remarks erupted over the weekend.
Among the comments broadcast last week at the Big Freeze fundraiser at the MCG were statements by McGuire that we would pay for Wilson to be dunked in cold water saying: “I reckon we should start the campaign for a one-person slide next year featuring Caroline Wilson and I’ll put in 10 grand straight away, make it 20. And if she stays under, 50. What do you reckon guys?”
McGuire was about to go through the ice slide himself and brought in fellow TripleM host James Brayshaw and former St Kilda captain Danny Frawley, with the latter responding: “I’ll actually jump in and make sure she doesn’t [come up] … I’ll hold her under, Ed.”
Well, thank god he’s “reached out to all our broadcasters to remind them.. such language is not acceptable”
What great leadership!
Carry on boys, carry on..
Making this issue about Caroline Wilson as a woman rather than Caroline Wilson as a journalist sets back the goal for equal opportunity. Now no one will or can be critical of Caro for fear of being accused of woman bashing.
Interesting considering SCA management were at a presentation in the last month talking about their sister network HIT caring and talking to woman. Yet same management fail to take action for these comments against women… mind boggles.