There is overwhelming evidence that members of Townsville's media have spent so much time in the dark and dank local mushroom farm , aka the city's news beat , that they have become blind to the many stories on nearby sunny Magnetic Island , slickly described as the city's Jewel in the Crown , but badly neglected .
Latest island epics to escape the myopic media's attention is the fight to death by a death adder and a coucal , captured on film (could go viral , as they say ) ; the third vandal attack on beach restoration measures (the two others not picked up by the look alike mainland mob ) ; the weird , hush-hush case of the smile-you-are-on-candid-camera safe robbers.
Then there is the unexplained saga of the white powder( was it sherbet or meths?), dropped in a bottle shop which, according to hearsay , resulted in a man being ordered off the island ; the story behind counterfeit American money found on the island .What about the dead dugong found washed up on the island ? The follow up autopsy been carried out yet ? The observation has been made repeatedly that a small team of really with it scribes would go through Townsville like a packet of salts, in the process , giving Magnetic Island and Townsville the coverage they deserve, but clearly do not get .
Then there is the unexplained saga of the white powder( was it sherbet or meths?), dropped in a bottle shop which, according to hearsay , resulted in a man being ordered off the island ; the story behind counterfeit American money found on the island .What about the dead dugong found washed up on the island ? The follow up autopsy been carried out yet ? The observation has been made repeatedly that a small team of really with it scribes would go through Townsville like a packet of salts, in the process , giving Magnetic Island and Townsville the coverage they deserve, but clearly do not get .
