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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda jam Nason. Wow, I didn't think Alex Cullen
would lose his job.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I've just been gobsmacked at that. But you know, there's
such a thing as cash for comment. In case you
didn't hear the news story there, Alex Cullen from Channel nine.
I don't watch a lot of the Block. So who's
is this the guy?
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Not the Block Today Show.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
The Today Show, But who's the guy who put the
money up?
Speaker 1 (00:22):
You know, the lambou guy, McLaren man.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Who buys all the houses in the block? Yeah? Right,
And he said if you called him mister Lamborghini or.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Something, Lamber McLaren man. No, he doesn't want to be
mister Lambo. He wants to be McLaren anyway.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
He put a thing out saying, first person in the
media call me that gets fifty grand. Alex Cullen called
him that on air and got the money and has
now been removed from the network.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
I thought, because there's one thing, if that was me,
I would have said it, but I wouldn't have taken
the money. I guess that's the next thing. That's the
next step.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
But there is cash for comment. We are not allowed
to take money for mentions like that.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Not off the books that Alan Jones and John law
has got in big trouble for this. Years and years ago. Optors,
the banks, a whole bunch of companies paid money to
these broadcasts to do their daily editorial. Yeah, and this
is like talkback radio is supposed to be a fond
of information, and it's a journal there is a journalist
integral integrity to it. John Lawis at the time said
(01:21):
I'm not a journalist. I'm a DJ and that's what
I'm not a journalist either. Anything I say, like Joe
Rogan is not.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
A journal change. The rules have change. We're not allowed
to take money.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I couldn't, but I know would I But also legally
endorsements though sure legal.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
But that's within a block of ads, and legally it's
one thing. Ethically, it's quite different to have Alex who
is part of their news team.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeah, but he said it in a joking way.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
But the money. Yeah, But charl and I have come
down hard on him.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Obviously he's lost his job. He's a nice fellow. I
like him, but it was a stupid thing to do.
I guess I better get.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
On Abrada Prada. I'd be happy for some, and your
soul basically underpants.