GEORGE NEGUS JOINS THE LONG AXE LIST OF AUSTRALIAN TV

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 probably 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 regularly 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.