Because everyone is too f**king scared to say what they're actually thinking when it comes to shit like this. No one wants to step up and say what everyone is thinking (except Sam Newman on the Goodes issue)
But another example is the Harly Bennel drugs story....
He has to come out and say he has a drug problem, that his life is out of control etc, he did a few lines of coke with some strippers.. If it wasn't for the pictures of it happening, he would've kept playing footy week in week out, but instead he has to put on a sad face for the cameras..
I know first hand that a current captain of an AFL club doesn't mind the coke, but because there's no photos of it out there he can just get on with playing football. One photo, and all of a sudden he has a drug problem and needs Jesus