Interesting standoff between Brian Edwards and Sunday Star Times brat.

Brian Edwards called for the SST to release the notes or a recording of an alleged conversation between cub 'reporter' Johnathan Marshall and Amanda Hotchin.
It appears that the cub brat is of a generation of reporters who think they have the right to demand explanations and interviews by going uninvited onto property or accosting people in the street. I'm fully sympathetic to the view that Amanda Hotchin and her children are off bounds, so too Mark Hotchin if that is his decision. There is no lawful requirement for any person to submit comment and in fact often the attempts border on harassment. If Hotchin has something to answer for it will be the authorities that make that decision and further more Amanda Hotchin is not under any investigation that I am aware of, so where does brat kid get off?
But you can feel the hostility and arrogance of this 'man' not just by what he has attempted to do, what he has 'quoted' and his failure to back it up, but by his gambit against Edwards who simply asked for notes or recordings of the 'interview' as a way to discover the truth. He, Marshall - in what he must consider an all time excellent punch line - remarked, 'Brian Edwards, I didn't know he was still alive.' How roundly amusing for him, such wit and intellect from a 'serious' journalist. And now that the hostilities have begun with Marshall being asked for some facts, he replied in a manner of contempt. Behaviour from him however, highly consistent with the drip bag he has displayed he is.
Of course we are all products of our environments and the environment from whence Marshall evolves displays it's own arrogance but still produces no proof of the contested comment. I can't recall at the moment how many children the Hotchin family have but it is of another, and more sinister time, when children, where they live, and what they might do is justified as of public interest on the basis of who their parents are or what race they may be. All said and done is there any public benefit in attacking Hotchin's wife and family, invading their privacy for comments about things they were clearly not involved in - no there is not.
And to flippantly speak about 'facts' which are in the public interest, because Marshall has made them so, but not produce them is not in the public interest. While school boy scratching crotches and giggling from a 'reporter' who doesn't know who is alive and who is not tell the public more about Johnathan Marshall than any interview with him would ever do.