….Fourex-gold, that is!
Have some slabs of Fourex Gold been delivered to the desk of Channel 9 Brisbane news hound Peter Fegan yet? Or the front porch at his home, of course. Either would be acceptable given the ease with which he promotes the product.
That’s the reasonable question being asked by the bitter, old hacks who compile The Bug‘s Media Glass House after Fegan reported in a piece the other night that Queensland police commissioner Katarina Carroll was “calling on our Kiwi cousins to ditch the cold for the land of Fourex Gold!”
That’s what he said, although we can’t find any evidence that the state’s top cop actually used the words “Fourex Gold” when explaining ads being placed over in New Zealand, offering Kiwi coppers up to $20,000 to opt for “warmer days and higher pays” with Queensland’s apparently too-thin a blue line.
MGH has checked the wording of the advertisements and while there is mention of Kiwis plonking their chully buns – sorry! – chilly bins – down on a sunny Sunshine State beach between work shufs – sorry! – shifts – if they come across the dutch – sorry! – ditch – we can’t find mention of Fourex Gold anywhere.
If she said it, has Fourex Gold become a major sponsor of the Queensland police force? Ever mindful of the need to be be absolutely accurate, the few sober members of the MGH team went for a drive and found a few cop cars but none bore any naming-rights signage from the famous Milton brewery.
Nevertheless, we’ll be keeping an eye on Fegan’s stories from now on.
Will the plugs for Fourex Gold keep coming? Or will Great Northern Original or, indeed, the recently reintroduced Power’s get a guernsey every now and then.
And with Nine News’s penchant for stories about the rampant youth crime that is bringing Queensland to its knees, will any of our state breweries really be all that keen on a free plug associated with such behavior?
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Newspaper article headings are meant to encapsulate the essence of the story underneath, right?
So our MGH crew was interested to see the piece (below) in Saturday’s The Sydney Morning Herald and specifically to find out which politics experts, what learned academics or psephologists have formed the view that Donald Trump will get a boost in his third run at the White House on the back of the latest criminal charges slapped on him.
Well, none actually. Towards the end of the yarn, down the bottom of the third leg in fact, we heard from one of the few Trump supporters gathered along Constitution Avenue – a chap named Dion Cini who was wearing a red MAGA hat and waved a flag that said ‘‘Trump or Death’’.
Here’s what the article breathlessly told us:
Cini said he was in Washington on January 6, 2021 to do ‘‘what President Trump said: peacefully and patriotically make my way to the Capitol’’. Asked if he had entered the building that day, he replied: ‘‘I can’t answer that’’.
However, the New York resident was adamant that the latest charges would not hurt Trump’s chances of winning the Republican nomination.
‘‘I think he’ll go up five points in the polls,’’ he said. ‘‘The Democrats think they’re a smart organisation, but they’re too dumb for their own good.’’
So, the predictor of a Trump Bump is a moronic MAGA supporter with the IQ of a Pauline Hanson’s One Nation party member.
Still, glad we got that sorted.
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