Joe Previtera

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Joe Previtera (also referred to as Joe the Cameraman or Joe the Patsy) was a Channel 9 cameraman who is infamous for confessing on A Current Affair (where he was referred to as Joe the Cameraman) to being the culprit in a widely reported cricket incident in 1999 where a special effects microphone picked up someone saying "can't bowl, can't throw", (can't catch) just after Scott Muller had misfielded a ball in the Hobart test match between Australia and Pakistan. The television show The Panel replayed it and the finger was pointed at Shane Warne as the source of the comment. Warne denied it but Muller was unconvinced and threatened legal action. The Australian media ran the story as a hot topic for a few days with much of the general public believing that Warne was guilty despite voice analysis experts' opinions and scrutiny of television footage. Many disputed the truth of Joes confession, including then opposition backbencher Mark Latham, who accused the network of a cover-up [1]. Brett Lee's band Six & Out recorded a song drawing on the famous phrase, entitled "Can't Bowl, Can't Throw".

The phrase Joe the Cameraman has since passed into the lexicon^{[citation needed]} as a reference to any near-anonymous cameraman who films an event for a media organisation.