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"Two hours pass and I can feel the words trying to slip off the page and smear their inky stains over me. A battle I can win, I think, sees me standing over the sink trying to set fire to the corners of the page with the glowing end of my cigarette. Ten left means I could be here for the afternoon. Paragraphs go up in smoke, covering the drain hole with ashes as strong as our commitment. One drop is all it took to wreak havoc."

My article in Tresspass Mag: Did I say something wrong?

Did I Say Something Wrong?

In the past seven days two media personalities have been left eating some humble pie. First to put their foot in it was serial-offender Kyle Sandilands taking a cheap shot at Magda Szubanski, suggesting a concentration camp would take care of her weight loss issues. The second slip up was by someone a little less obvious.  When Mia Freedman posted a “seven word tweet” to the twitterverse last week urging people to watch a “funny” Youtube clip of a dog with narcolepsy, the last thing she expected was to be reading her name in the big bold letters of a headline in The Australian newspaper.

To be fair, the two incidences do differ - Kyle makes his money waving the flag of controversy, whereas Mia prides herself on her sensitivity and acts as a positive voice in the media on women’s bodies, motherhood, and other family-friendly issues. Kyle’s comment was meant to be inflammatory, Mia’s tweet most certainly was not.

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