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Mark Doran and team find success in seeking out the insider's story
FILLING four hours of radio five days a week is tough, particularly when your program doesn't start until noon.
By that time every man and his dog has had a solid bite at the story of the day, so to come up with something different yet newsy you have to think outside the square.
This is the task 1116SEN's Mark Doran and his team on The Good Oil face every day.
A good example came during the Ben Cousins drug controversy.
Rather than try to dissect the story in the way the breakfast and morning shows had done, Doran came up with an excellent feature piece.
The Good Oil ran a one-hour special on an anonymous former AFL football identity who at one stage had a $2000-a-week cocaine habit during his close association with an AFL club.
The person was not a player but was in a position to give an insight not only into the drug culture in the AFL, but the drug culture itself.
"It was an insider's story of the drug culture that the AFL has found itself embroiled in," Doran says.
"It examined...