On Monday McGuire offered apologised “unreservedly” over the comments.
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The ACMA today signalled that it may investigate both Triple M and Nine as the furore over McGuire’s remarks, made on Triple M’s Hot Breakfast program two weeks ago, continues to burn after Newman came out last night to label the media “excrement” and taking aim at Wilson who he labelled “an embarrassment” who could “talk under water”.
He asked Brayshaw and Frawley if they were “in” and they agreed.
As the Magpies board backed McGuire as president on Tuesday night, it emerged that Tigers players are starting an open-ended action against the radio station.
Quite apart from the staggering crassness of it, it’s hard to take seriously any lecture on gender politics that this man dishes out given that his idea of humour is to dress a mannequin in lingerie, stick a cut-out of Caroline Wilson’s face on it then feign fornication with it on national television.
“Now look do we have to sign up to say we are against domestic violence and women, violence on women, I mean would we actually have to say that?”
“There were moments where you would just rather keep going with football”, Malthouse said.
Newman also addressed Ms Wilson directly saying: “The jig’s up Caro, honestly and truly”. You are becoming an embarrassment. And even if you were underwater, you’d still be talking.
“I was really disappointed in Rebecca Wilson in that interview”, said Robinson on SEN radio.
“He was genuinely remorseful and incredibly sorry, and we’ve made our peace”, she said.
Wilson said that she had met with McGuire and accepted his personal apology over the incident.
He is emotionally and physically drained by the week’s events.
McGuire, North Melbourne chairman James Brayshaw and fellow commentator Danny Frawley all took shots at Wilson in a conversation on Triple M before the Queen’s Birthday match between Collingwood and Melbourne.
“In this week we’ve canvased so many issues – I started with on and I’ll end with one, which is bullying”.
“I’ll put in 10 grand straight away – make it 20”, McGuire said. And if she stays under, fifty’.
Wilson and McGuire spoke “at length” following his comments on radio station Triple M earlier this month, which have caused outrage.
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“But fundamentally as a football club we know exactly what we want to stand for and Ed understands that his actions and comments were not representative of the Collingwood footy club or of his own personal values, I would have thought, and has communicated as much”.
