From Copy Boy to Judge of the Immortals - Norm Tasker talks...

Описание: Before R360… There Was Super League - Norm Tasker Reveals...What happens when a sports journalist steps inside the game, not just to write about it, but to live it?
In this episode of Another World, we sit down with Norm Tasker, the man who didn’t just report on Australian sport, he wrote about in "Great Australian Sports Stories" and helped define.
Over six decades, Tasker covered everything from Rugby Union and Rugby League to Cricket, writing 15 books and shaping the narrative of Australian sport. He coached Gordon Rugby to a first-grade grand final, refereed at elite levels, and worked under both Kerry and Frank Packer. As the co-creator and long-time judge of the Rugby League Immortals, Tasker’s influence reaches from the grassroots to the grandstands.
But this conversation isn’t just about sport, it’s about truth, integrity, and what happens when journalism and power collide.
We revisit the Super League war, a media and money battle that changed Australian sport forever, and ask:
Is what we’re seeing now on R360 and in the modern media echoing that disruption?
Did professionalism save the game, or sell its soul?
And what happens when the heroes of yesterday become the commodities of today?
From the days when journalists shared beers with players, not PR briefs… to a time where every headline is a battleground, this episode peels back the curtain on the real stories behind the game.
Hear never-before-told moments from behind the press box, the locker room, and the frontlines of sport’s biggest transformations, through the eyes of one of Australia’s most respected and enduring sports journalists.

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