Role Models or Roll Models?

Ben Cousins (Image Courtesy of The Age)

Ah, yet another Ben Cousins scandal. It's as if Journalists need as much of a fix as he seemingly did in his drug taking 'glory' days.

Now, there making a documentary!

Will Brodie of The Age Newspaper in Melbourne writes about how the Richmond Tigers (the AFL bad boy's current employer) are still backing his playing skills, despite the emergence of this rather controversial documentary to be released during Grand Final Week.

Read his article here

The most interesting part of this article is the attached video, which previews some rather risque sections of Cousin's documentary - mainly scenes with him high as a kite, participating in his favourite hobby of being half naked. Whilst the scenes are interesting, they do not actually give further insight into the character of Ben Cousins, simply being sensationalistic in nature.

The article itself is well written and straight to the point, or rather points. The first angle the writer takes is whether the documentary will affect Cousin's career - as would have been already discussed as the documentary was 'voluntary' in nature. The second angle is the more well-circulated issue of the AFL's drug testing effectiveness. Of course, bringing up this issue in relation to any news on Ben Cousins is hardly news at all. So why do we care?

Probably because, lets face it, Ben Cousins is a hot, football playing bad ass who wants to teach children by documenting his bad lifestyle choices.

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