What’s the Buzz: How NRL player agent Isaac Moses holds pulling power at Channel 9
Fresh details have uncovered how controversial NRL player agent Isaac Moses holds the power in the corridors at Channel 9, freezing out one of their most senior rugby league journalists.
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New details have emerged around the appalling treatment of sports journalist Michael Chammas by Nine Entertainment – and the company’s cosy relationship with twice deregistered player agent Isaac Moses.
Moses is the controversial manager who demanded Chammas be stood down from a recent episode of Channel 9’s 100% Footy in which his client, NSW Origin and Parramatta Eels star Mitchell Moses, was to appear on the panel.
The agent has not spoken to Chammas for eight years.
We can now reveal why Moses, who was banned for his dealings in the Melbourne Storm and Parramatta Eels salary cap scandals, holds so much power and influence at Channel 9.
Two of his biggest clients just happen to be Storm legend Cameron Smith and Today Show star and footy host Danika Mason – both key members of Nine’s NRL team.
So, inexplicably, the network made the decision to keep Moses onside at the expense of their own journalist.
It is a particularly awkward situation for Mason, because she, like everyone else in rugby league, rates Chammas so highly.
That Nine Entertainment has a slogan ‘Independent Always’ yet allowed this to happen has left journalists and editors at the SMH and Channel 9 questioning the integrity of management’s decision-making.
Chammas was furious.
“He (Moses) does it with clubs and he just tries to influence his power and control,” he told a Triple M podcast.
“He’s got his people in the media and if you’re not his mouthpiece, it’s a one-way street. If you don’t you get iced out.”
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