{"id":87,"date":"2005-08-31T14:10:15","date_gmt":"2005-08-31T04:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=87"},"modified":"2005-08-31T14:41:29","modified_gmt":"2005-08-31T04:41:29","slug":"groggos-suicide-bid-medias-fault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=87","title":{"rendered":"Groggo&#8217;s suicide bid- media&#8217;s fault?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/national\/are-the-media-to-blame\/2005\/08\/31\/1125302603009.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"5\" height=\"400\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/\/blogimages\/tele_headlines_brogden_via_smh.jpg\" alt=\"image: Sydney Morning Herald\" title=\"image: Sydney Morning Herald\" \/><\/a>ABC is reporting Liberal MP Peter Debnam has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/newsitems\/200508\/s1450020.htm\" target=\"_blank\">blamed the media<\/a> for driving Grogden to suicide. &quot;I would have thought he [Mr Brogden] would have got some credit for doing the honourable thing on Monday morning,&quot; Mr Debnam said. &quot;Instead he suffered a devastating front page yesterday, Tuesday, and was about to suffer another devastating page this morning.&quot; <\/p>\n<p> Debnam fails to realise that John Brogden&#8217;s problems were caused by John Brogden. Moreover, Groggo elected to remain as the MP for Pittwater, making him fair game for reporting. <\/p>\n<p>There was most definitely a public interest to be served by exposing this man&#8217;s sexually aggressive behaviour with women, as well as his apparent propensity for alcohol abuse. The way the voters- particularly female voters- of the Pittwater electorate are represented in the NSW Parliament would certainly be affected by both matters.<\/p>\n<p>Women cannot expect their interests would be taken seriously by a man who behaves with women as Groggo clearly does.   <\/p>\n<p>Nup. The Tele was <em>totally<\/em> in the right to publish what they found.  <\/p>\n<p>-weez <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NSW Liberal MP Peter Debnam claims the Daily Tele is to blame for Grogden&#8217;s suicide attempt&#8230; Crap!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}