Andrew Denton’s Interview of Wayne Carey – 1 April 2008

http://www.abc.net.au/tv/enoughrope/transcripts/s2201719.htm

After watching this interview it became apparent that the reason this story is being so widely monitored, reported and watched was because of the prominence of Wayne Carey.

Wayne Carey – the former ‘king’, a once football star often whose career has now been forgotten and he is now infamous for his post football life and misdemeanors went on Enough Rope in a frank interview about recent incidents and his desire to move on.

When watching the interview my Dad raised the question “Why air this? People take drugs, assault police and cheat on their wives everyday.” He is in fact correct, but such stories don’t make the papers as they do not involve people of prominence within the community. It is a given that one of the news values in prominence and is such news. News values are what sells the newspapers and people want to read about the lives of other people, they want to have an opinion and this story was given so much media coverage that it seemed inevitable that Wayne Carey at some stage would respond – he chose Enough Rope with Andrew Denton to do this. His motive could have been to choose a more credible program rather than something like Today Tonight or 60 minutes.

Whatever his motive for agreeing to do the Enough Rope Andrew Denton interview, Wayne Carey is right when he referred to numerous blogs about him and his issues and no doubt following the airing of the interview bloggers will have gone crazy each providing their own opinion of Wayne, his life, his choices, his associates and his alleged crimes. With such thoughts freely available on the web is this a chance to tell his story or trial by media?