The major news items being covered by local (Victorian) media this morning were the tragic event in Boston (US) and the angst being suffered by officials, players and supporters of the Essendon (AFL) football club over an on-going investigation into possible wide-spread use of illicit drugs. Over the past couple of days ... the head-coach James Hird has been in the spot-light.
Though the gravity (and importance) of both stories differ greatly ... there are coincident elements of each which could confuse people interested vitally in one of the stories whilst, perhaps only vaguely aware of the other. I can imagine it may also be a challenge for newspaper writers charged with composing terse key-word headlines ... especially if the stories are slated to appear on the same page.
Both are principally concerned with Bombers. On the one hand the term applies to criminal terrorists(?). The other concerns a club nickname. Both involve sport. A marathon foot-race in the US ... and, a football code which ranks as a religion among welded-on local enthusiasts. Finally, both have generated relatively large investigations by appropriate authorities with a view to exacting heavy punishments on parties found to have broken the law.
It so happens that being able to combine two or more current events logically in one cartoon is one of a political cartoonist's most prized aspirations. It will be interesting for me to see if any of our local well-known practitioners are brave enough to tackle this particular 'alignment of the planets'.
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