He may well be the lefties to end all lefties as far as television
journalism goes, well almost, i nearly clean forgot about Kerry
O'Brien and Jonathon Holmes, but George 'Fungus' Negus was
probaly a bit unlucky to have his new current affairs program
6.30pm with George Negus, later renamed and re-scheduled
half an hour earlier as 6pm with George Negus as a last ditch
effort to improve the shows ratings, axed unceremoniously by
Network Ten. George always knew how to pick a fight and get
into a heated argument with people he interviewed during his
long, albeit intermittent career as a pugnacious and spirited
TV journalist, his greatest investigative work remains what
he reported on all those years ago as an anti-establishment
and anti-right wing champion for the common cause on the
australian edition of SIXTY MINUTES. George Negus did of
course get tagged with the most uneviable alter-ego name,
George Fungus, on the Paul Hogan Show when Hoges regu-
larly performed a pisstake segment which always took the
absolute mickey out of Negus, at times it could be quite
hilarious, but i really do not believe George saw it that
way at the time. From what i have heard, it was only
when Paul Hogan invited Negus' son Serge Cockburn
to star in the third Crocodile Dundee movie that the
two put the whole George Fungus thing behind them.
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